Ranjith’s Castle

It is one more incident @ the Mundandurai forest. It is told that the vehicles should switch off the audio system inside the Forest Area. I am not sure why they insists on this. We had similar restriction when we visited Manjolai and Top Slip. While talking about this to the Driver of our van, he told that if the audio is played, then the sound of the up coming vehicle will not be heard.

But the tourist vehicle we travelled produced much more noise than the audio system.

We want to preserve wild life and it was told that we should not make much noise inside the forest. But you know the beauty, we use all diesel powered vehicles which are the source of the maximum possible noise.

Cheers - Ranjith

Last Saturday night, I traveled in the MRTS for the first time. I took the train from Velachery to Park town. It was a nice travel which took just 30 minutes to land at the Park Town station. Everything was nice except that the train is little bit noisy than the Beach-TBM line. The person at the MRTS Ticket counter at velachery is pushing himself to speak only in English to me. On the contrary, I responded only in Tamil. I hate a Customer response person who talks in an alternative language than what Customer speaks.

I mostly saw only polluted water bodies, a lot of government housing boards and huts on the way to the Park Town. I feel I need to go in the train one more time during the day to have a good look at more of Chennai.

The best (worst) part came when I landed on the Park town station. The way out of the park town station is on the flyover that connects mount road with Poonamalli High (PH) road. I was guided by a co passenger to take this way. I am not sure whether there is any alternative to this. This way too had a pavement to walk down the flyover and a subway to cross the PH Raod to reach the central station. People on the contrary are walking on the middle of the road on the flyover and trying to cross the PH Road to reach central. It is literally no safety in the way people are crossing the road. It will for sure confuse the drivers coming towards Mount road from Central.

It will be good that the Chennai corporation takes proper action to make sure people take the regular way to reach the Central and vice versa. Proper fencing and lights can be made on the pavement down so that people are forced to use it.

Cheers - Ranjith