Hey everyone,

I’m a 38-year-old IT professional based in Chennai with a growing passion for photography, visual storytelling, and documenting unique local culture.

I’m currently planning a few early morning field trips across the city—starting with an early 4:00 AM visit to the Kasimedu Fish Market to capture the raw energy, auctions, and morning harbour life, as well as exploring local train-spotting hubs.

Truth be told, I get pretty camera-shy when I’m out recording on my own! Having a companion around makes the experience much more fun, relaxed, and natural. I’d love to connect with someone who shares a similar interest in photography, video, or just capturing compelling everyday stories.

Whether you’re an experienced creator or just someone who loves early morning photo walks and exploring unique spots in Chennai, it’d be great to tag along together!

If this sounds like something you'd be up for, drop me a message and let's connect.

Cheers!

Background: Uber from Tambaram to Kodambakkam at 4:00 AM during showers

Just got down at TBM railway station at this ungodly hour and it was drizzling profusely to make matters worse.

Went to catch first local train (3:55) and the general compartment was already full. What struck me pleasantly was the RPF was standing outside the first class coaches, holding umbrellas, and patiently informing unaware passengers that it was first class.

I felt it was a good preventive measure and could avoid confusion and conflict between the passengers at the early morning hours.

RPF… Dis is por you!!! 🌹🌹🌹🌹

I just saw a bright flash a loud boom from a thunder strike and I genuinely thought it was a fukin bomb that landed on Chennai

Hi,

I am looking for three times a day(breakfast, lunch, dinner) home cooked like meals for 30 days with hime delivery meals subscription for Shenoy nagar, chennai. Can anyone please suggest options?

Hey everyone,

I’m a 38-year-old IT professional based in Chennai with a growing passion for photography, visual storytelling, and documenting unique local culture.

I’m currently planning a few early morning field trips across the city—starting with an early 4:00 AM visit to the Kasimedu Fish Market to capture the raw energy, auctions, and morning harbour life, as well as exploring local train-spotting hubs.

Truth be told, I get pretty camera-shy when I’m out recording on my own! Having a companion around makes the experience much more fun, relaxed, and natural. I’d love to connect with someone who shares a similar interest in photography, video, or just capturing compelling everyday stories.

Whether you’re an experienced creator or just someone who loves early morning photo walks and exploring unique spots in Chennai, it’d be great to tag along together!

If this sounds like something you'd be up for, drop me a message and let's connect.

Cheers!

I’m Rithik, Founder of Ruba.

I built Ruba, an app that sends your clients/members their invoice and polite payment reminders on WhatsApp and email, before and after the due date, automatically. No awkward chasing, All you have to do is just create the invoice details once, and everything is automated right from creating invoices each month to sending out reminders to collect payments.

I’m giving 60 day free trial to the early birds, Anyone want a 2-minute demo

Hey guys, I’ve been getting pink lines on my S22 Ultra for almost 8 months now.

I’m confused about what to do. Should I get the lines fixed at a third party service centre or replace the display with a good quality aftermarket one?

If anyone has experience with either option, please share how it worked out, especially the display quality, durability and cost.

Also, does anyone know a reliable shop in Chennai that can do this repair?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Ps: looking for S pen too

My MacBook is about 4 years old now. I keep the outside clean, but I think it needs a proper internal deep clean. The keys especially feel dirty, and every time I wipe them with isopropyl alcohol I can see dust, but I can only get the surface and not underneath the keyboard.

So I’m looking for a shop that can do just the internal cleaning. No other repairs or services needed.

A couple of questions:

1. Any shops you’ve actually used and trust?
2. Roughly how much do they charge for just cleaning?

Please only suggest places you’re confident won’t mess it up. Other than the dust, the laptop runs fine, and I’m hoping it lasts another 2–3 years. I really don’t want a technician breaking something while opening it.

Thanks in advance!

Hi people i am living in chennai. Everytime we decide to take the car out of our shed there will be a auto/cars parked infront of our shed. This really annoys. During emergency times situations like this really scares me.
We even complained to police few times by the solution id temporary.
Do you guys have any solution that works high time.

I'm looking for suggestions on where I can get some old good quality magazines for cheaper prices it does not matter what magazine they are just that they have good quality paper and printing. I'm looking to get into making collages so I just want to buy a variety that would spark my imagination.

Spotted this huge flock on blue rooftop this morning. Looks so eye-catching! Anyone know why they gather here? 🕊️

Got 2 tickets… this’ll be my fourth time watching it. Anyone wanna join me?

Preferably a woman, please.

There is sick dog in our area, looks like a it was a formerly raised as pet and abandoned due to old age and sickness. He need some medical attention and we are quite skeptical to take him to the vet ourselves as he looks like he has some skin issue. Plus he also needs rehoming.

I've contacted multiple ngos from Google but all them ate either ignoring calls and refusing rescues. Please share contacts.

Area: Virugambakkam (around koyembedu and vadapalani)

Hi folks

I am new to chennai and I may reach chennai airport by 11pm and i travel alone with only a backpack so after all the formalities i may exit the airport by around 11:45 pm. I need to travel to Bapatla,Andhra Pradesh .The worst case is Vijayawada,Andhra Pradesh at least so what travel options do I have i checked buses from apps I saw last buses are around 11:30 pm so is there a spot or Bus stop where i can ask the bus driver on the spot and take the bus or what options i do have? Can some please guide. Thanks

I want to preface this by saying I completely understand the appeal of cars. If it's raining, if you're carrying a lot of shopping bags, or just for general safety on our roads—it makes total sense.

But on a regular sunny day, if you are just one person commuting to the office with a single bag, wouldn't a bike make much more sense? Solo car commuters take up so much space and heavily contribute to the daily traffic gridlock.

My main frustration, and the real question I want to ask, is about road corners. Often, there is a small gap on the edge or corner of the road. As a car driver, you can clearly see your vehicle won't fit through it, or you simply can't move forward yet because of the traffic ahead. But instead of leaving that gap open for bikes to squeeze by, people pull up and block the corner completely.

If you know you can't move forward anyway, why block the path? Why not leave that little bit of space so two-wheelers can keep moving? I'm genuinely trying to understand the thought process here from the perspective of car drivers.

Also, regarding those absolutely narrow streets we have all over the city—is it really necessary to squeeze a car down there when it barely fits?

And a genuine question: don't you get annoyed trying to find parking every time you go somewhere? As a bike rider, I can park almost anywhere. The stress of hunting for a car parking spot just seems exhausting to me.

I'm genuinely trying to understand the thought process here from the perspective of solo car drivers.

So this has happened to me too many times now for it to not be seen as a pattern.

I book a cab.
Sometimes the driver calls, sometimes they don’t.
Nothing about the amount is discussed prior to me boarding the cab.
They arrive at my location.
I give the OTP and board.

They immediately say “Sir oru 50 rs sethu kuduthurunga sir” (sir give 50 rs extra)

I ask them “Why couldn’t you have told me this before you came to pick me up? I could’ve cancelled.”

They’ll give me some lame excuse about how it’s long distance or about not getting a return ride or something.

It becomes a whole argument and my peace is ruined.

They think if they ask this way people will pay them. What’s funny is that it’s gotten to a point now where if a cab driver doesn’t ask me for extra, I voluntarily pay them extra, just because they’re one of the few decent ones left.

I’ve not been able to book a cab in peace in the near past!

I wanted file a consumer complaint online through the e-Jagriti portal thinking it was supposed to be completely paperless.

When i went to District Consumer Court, they're asking to submit multiple physical printouts before they proceed.

Why have an online portal if we still have to take leave, print hundreds of pages, and do manual filing anyway?

Has anyone else in Chennai dealt with this recently? Are physical copies actually mandatory, or is there a way around it?

Any one else wonder where we are all heading if we continue to be lonely like this? Once you miss the dating train in your 20s, it seems like its pretty much over in this city. I don't think there's a good ending to this lonliness epidemic, I'm seeing a lot of people turn up at the movies alone nowadays, it's sad to see. Sollunga chennaiites, enna pannalaam.

I ordered a pair of Crocs worth ₹5,000 during a sale on Flipkart, but I received the wrong size. I raised a return request on October 10, and Flipkart initiated the pickup on the same day. However, the pickup kept getting delayed from their end, even though I repeatedly confirmed my availability for pickup through WhatsApp.
Unfortunately, I had to travel yesterday, so I left the package with my neighbour. I also had a Myntra delivery scheduled, which was handled by Ekart. The delivery agent called me to confirm the delivery and mentioned that he had also come for the pickup. My neighbour handed him the Crocs, assuming he was there to collect the return.
Later, when I checked the Flipkart app, the return status still showed “Pickup Pending.” I contacted Flipkart customer support and learned that the assigned pickup partner was supposed to be Shadowfax, not Ekart.
I then contacted Myntra support to see if they could help identify or track the delivery agent, but they said they were unable to help.
Now the product is no longer with me, and Flipkart still shows the return as pending.

Has anyone faced a similar situation? How can I trace the Ekart delivery agent and get Flipkart to acknowledge the return and process my refund? Any advice on how to escalate this would be appreciated.

1. Thiruvanmiyur beach

2. Arupadai Murugan temple, Thiruvanmiyur

3. Don't remember this one.

Really a convenient route to have and grateful for that.

But feels like the inauguration was rushed with incomplete work. All the stations between Porur and Vadapalani are non functional.

But that's not even the problem, but the train was really buggy. Although the train did not reach the station, the announcement said the train reached and leaving. Then after 2 minutes the train arrived. Looks like some sync issues.

The locopilot or the driver was applying brakes aggressively in the middle of nowhere. The train has limited handle bars and many passengers couldn't balance themselves.

It's too early to complain, which I understand. But if they are functioning the metro like this, I wonder if it is really safe to travel in it at the moment.

Thoughts?

Saw this at Pattinambakkam beach today. Anyone know why it was there? Never seen one of these in Chennai before.