Balaji's Weblog

In 1997/98, on a randaom Sunday afternoon I was traveling from Chennai Broadway to Anna Nagar West on the city bus. I must've been 13 or 14 year old. A lazy lungi clad middle-aged man with an empty grocery bag boarded the bus. After a while he approached me and asked "is this the stop to Koyambedu?" (I would later find out that he was in the wrong bus). I had no clue but I nodded enthusiastically. He got down at Thirumangalam. As the bus left, I saw him looking around cluelessly trying to make sense of where he was. He was 1.5 km away from Koyambedu market.

I think about him sometimes. #intj 

Both Chennai and Madurai are thriving. Everyone is purchasing something or the other, busy commuting here and there, having a more "outside" lifestyle than I am used to. The past 20 years has seen a massive urban migration. Population with a morbid desire to buy property. But unfortunately both the cities' infrastructure is just not able to keep up with this level of hyper growth. The roads, water supply, electricity, sewage and garbage disposal are working barely, bursting through the seams. Madurai is paticularly bad.

But the most depressing part is the apathy. #boilingfrog 

Hello World! This is a shortform post. I redesigned the site to show "micro blogs" i.e. posts that has a character limit and has its entire contents on the home page itself. Here is an image Gemini generated for me. #helloworld