India Trip 2012
Sweaty Chennai, Boring Trichy, relatively better Bangalore (March and April 2012) Two weeks into my trip,I had traveled to places like Chennai, Tirupati, Madurai, Trichy (including nearby rural areas) and Bangalore. There were plenty of opportunities to observe infrastructure development in some parts of these cities/towns and listen to other's ideas and views. Not a slave of comforts, power shortage came as a rude shock to me though. My mom never mentioned about it once. Tamilnadu boasts more than 250 engineering colleges and other outstanding institutions like BHEL. Chief Minister Jayalalitha is a skilled administrator. Country as a whole has a rich pool of talent. Yet, we are struggling to generate electricity efficiently. Every Aam Aadmi was talking about the CM being not able to handle it efficiently and that only two hours off in chennai is a biased decision. Apart from the talking and abusing, there could not be much done by the public. It was miserable to se