Chennai aka: Madras

Save yourself from the auto drivers here, otherwise a good city.

I have started my career in a Startup working as a Software Developer. I am still grateful to people of chennai. It has good infrastructure and commuting facilities. We can have many choices of place to hangout depends on the mood. Chennai is well known for its Beach ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_beach ). It also has many temples, shopping complex, multiplex, resorts, bay area, theaters and ofcourse diversified people. But Now its getting densely populated.

Anyway, I wish all the people would have a Happy and Peaceful Life there! I may return back to chennai in future. :)

I came to Madras on business trips, so have not actually seen all that much. I defintely need to come back to India.

My head office is here in nungambakkam, so i visit the place very often, Chennai is a good place, except the auto guys try to cheat everytime

Well, I’ve been here several times..but each visit has been an interesting one. This city boasts excellent South Indian food and great entertainment which you ought to try when there. It has colour & character. But the city has become heavily congested & polluted in recent years. So beware of the traffic madness. Whatever it is, the people showed their extraordinary resilience in the aftermath of tsunami. And they are still friendly as ever.

As I spent a month and a half in Chennai, I can share quite a bit oof advice about the place. Great place to visit!

amazing city! Cool place.
But depends where you are living in chennai too.
The beach!
The Girls!
Everything is just awesome in Chennai

Although I’ve lived in many different parts of the world all thorough my life, I will have to call Madras my home as my formative years were spent here.

If you’re looking to have fun times involving some mild sightseeing, pub hopping and dancing at discos, this is not your place. Madras is ultra conservative on the outside, and its very hard for visitors to break in to the circles where all the fun stuff happens.

But as a city, Chennai is all character. It is the capital city of region of the world boasting one of the oldest cultures of the world (and definitely a culture about which little is known). Tamil is a language at least as old as sanskrit, but unlike sanskrit has no known root language. In turn it is the root language for the south indian family of languages. It was the only city in India which was bombed during world war 2. (ok that was a random fact)

Home of the best south Indian food – you must try and sample everything while you’re there…go beach side and try the corn, the raw mangos, ‘sundal’, and deep friend bajjis. If you’re visiting in december be sure to check out the music festival that happens there every year which attracts people from all over the world, and regularly features some true giants of world music (read: not the likes of Jessica Simpson, no offense)

The people here have far more humility than any other part of India. Chennai’s schools regularly produce some of the brightest kids in the world, as the culture of the place strives to emphasise education, learning and values in the world that deems these unfashionable.

Some very fine temples in the city, and even better ones as you travel further south (Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram).

I can go on and on…

Recommendations:
If you have a choice, visit dbetween the months of November and February. The weather does get incredibly hot.

I spent a month in an yogashram just outside Madras, December 2005 through January 2006.

It was incredible.

amazing city of hot