Sarc-E-Azam

* I have always been fascinated by the quirky names of places. Some are remnants of the Colonial Era, while others have been devised by sheer imagination. This part of a series of informational blogs on some of the popular places in and around Chennai and the history behind it. If you have suggestions on any places that you feel should get added to this, please write to me* Broadway, Chennai Broadway, is the place known as the Original Bus-stand of Chennai, before the Main Bus depot moved to Koyambedu at the sprawling Chennai Moffusil Bus Terminus. Even today, majority of the buses connecting North Madras to other parts originate from Broadway. So where is this Broadway, and where did it get its name from? Well, I would like to say I went about researching in Connemara Library, and poured over old volumes and found out. But thanks to Google and Wikipedia, I am spared from all that effort and slander. But I did do the "search". It is actually an interesting story. Ba

The last few weeks have been extremely exhausting. Physically, Mentally, Emotionally - in every ally as possible. How does one call it "ally", when they all seem to be against us? I feel drained out. And as one gets to such a point in life, one does wonder. Well, more than just wonder. People like me, they 'overthink' it. Try to analyze the f*** out of it and make sense of the Why-In-The-Hell , Who-The-F*** , What-In-God's-Name questions that spew out like popcorn from a machine at the cinemas. It's not the first time when I have been told by those who love me to Just Do It . Actually, it appears I am living amidst the biggest Nike ambassadors of all time! But on a serious note, when does one "stop thinking and just do it", as opposed to a, "sleep over it, think about it, hold-on-lets-take-a-step-back" approach? When does one need to be "spontaneous", and when does one need to be calculative? Let's take any random decision