The IIT Campus is really green. Click on the photograph to see how lush it is! Some classmates of mine are in the picture but their faces are obscured. MSc friends…see if you can identify them!
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Photograph of a random student at IIT Madras. Taken a loong time ago. But I really had to share this…
This innovative auto has a transparent plastic roof. There is an incredible sense of space when you ride it it. It was raining and things looked especially beautiful. When its hot the guy puts a non-transparent cover and it becomes like a normal auto.
Taken in Chennai, October 2006.
I took this photo in Spencer Plaza, Chennai in Aug 2006.
Another catchy public health slogan I read in Chennai went something like this: “Do not speed unless you have an appointment with God” (!)
If you are ever in Chennai and are aching for some idlis go to Murugan Idli Shop.
I went there with some of my classmates last year. And we ate on banana leaves.
The cat who gave birth in my dorm corridor
IIT Madras is located in a forest and there are plenty of animals about. The wildlife lives in harmony with the human wildlife in the hostels. This little fellow below was given birth by the mother above (possibly the only female in the all boys hostel
Compare the kitten with the shoes on the right!
All this was barely 20ft from my dorm room.
We had been observing the knocked up cat for quite some time. When the cat was near its due date it kept roaming the corridor for a place to give birth — all of us kept hoping that the messy event does not happen in our room or just outside it (The cat had a habit of constantly scoping out potential sites for giving birth and once into your room took a lot of coaxing to send out).
And then one day we saw two kittens! One kitten died within the first few days (we are not clear what happened…whether another animal ate it or it died). Unfortunately this (above) kitten too did not survive more than a couple week. Nature is cruel.
Here is a video I shot from my Nokia.