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I have good news to share. Well its bit old news...I moved to Pune again almost a month before. I spent almost three years in Chennai.   I love Chennai, but due to some personal and family reasons I took decision to shift to Pune. I was able to find my next assignment in Pune. While leaving Chennai, I was filled with mixed emotions of happiness and sadness and many more memories. I was happy because I was going back to my home state and nearer to family and friends. Sad because I would be missing the Chennai and my colleagues and friends. One month after coming back to Pune, I still miss many things from Chennai. First and foremost is the kind and sincere people of Chennai. Second my favourite madras coffee. But, though I have come to Pune, I have not closed the doors of Chennai for me. I am open to return to Chennai, anytime in future if needed. While leaving I will like to mention few things about the Chennai. First Chennai is growing city and there are several opportunities

Few days ago I went to Pondicherry or Puducherry with family. It was French colony before Independence. Pondicherry is at about 160 kms from Chennai. It is favorite trip destination for various reasons. There are some beautiful beaches, rocky beaches. You can buy any brand of bear, whiskey, vodka etc. at cheaper rates. In Chennai you won't get all brands as it's restricted by state government. So many people go for enjoying hard drinks. Pondicherry still have French flavor in its life. The old buildings have French architectural touch. Policeman caps resembles that with French police. Even some Church resemble with saint Notre Dame at Paris. I stayed at Green Palace hotel. It was really great place to stay. They have studied French hotels very well. I received all the services that I use to get in Paris. Resemblance is astonishing. At approximately 2kms from hotel there is a very good Rock beach. The place is great. There is a road parallel to the beach where you can ta

I am writing again after another six months. I have to keep visiting here regular. Actually, initial plan was to add at least one post per month but it appears that even it is difficult. I will try to stick this plan although lot of things coming up in next few days. I will discuss it in next post. I started this blog to share my experiences in life, wherever I stay. Currently I am in Chennai and I am sharing my life here. I don’t want to make it a travel blog. Generally I tend to do that more may be it is human tendency . :)  Recently I visited Mahabalipuram a small town near Chennai just 55 Km away. It was second trip. When I first visited, I was thinking I am visiting just another temple place. For those who don’t know, there are many old and beautiful temples in Tamil-Nadu. But, I am not big fan of temples. Why? Well not now on this. I rather avoid discussing religious topics. Mahabalipuram is different and very beautiful place to visit. I am happy that I went there. It

Hmm, I am writing after long time, seven months. That's very long time. I apologize to my readers for this. This is my laziness. But, there are reasons like, busy schedule at office and little dull environment nearby. It's not that nothing happened in this period. In-fact some things happened which are rare.  For example flood situation in Chennai. November in last year was full of rain. Chennai seen very bad situation. It was emergency. People were stranded, lost everything, nothing to eat, nowhere to hide. I too faced this flood without electricity for 30 hours, network, mobile, internet down. I seen how things can change quickly and how our normal life can get disturbed. On the very next day of flood, there was fear among people for shortage of food, water, milk, cash. I seen very long queues outside ATM centers. And this was not first time for me. In 2005, I faced exactly same situation in Mumbai. But I must say I was lucky both the time that I was away from ground