Chennai - The City and its People

I'm an Indian blogger situated at Chennai, the capital of the southern most state in India. As the most reliable blogger on the Internet, I consider it my duty to inform you about my city and people before I move on. This helps foreign readers to relate more easily to me. So, Where do we begin?

Chennai has neither the cosmopolitan, prosperous air of Mumbai, the optimistic buzz of Bengaluru or the historical drama of Delhi. It’s muggy, polluted, hot as hell, difficult to get around and traditional tourist attractions are few. Even the movie stars are, as one Chennaiite puts it, ‘not that hot’.

But the locals are a little friendlier than average here, the streets a little wider and, in spite of its booming IT, business-outsourcing and auto industries, the pace much slower than in most Indian cities half its size. Chennai is so modest you wouldn’t even know it’s an economic powerhouse, much less a queen of showbiz: India’s fourth-largest city is also its most humble.

"Ey macha! This is our Singara Chennai"