Chennai: Happy to remain low profile
The HinduThere is much in the city that remains unsung. It still seems to provide a certain pace of life where even while there is progress, there is time to pause and smell the roses, or at least the Cooum. Take even the social revolution in India – personalities such as Iyothee Thass Pandithar and Rettamalai Srinivasan are never spoken of in the national narratives. Chennai sometimes appears to be like the Cooum – placid and meandering. You need to only look back and see how of many of these have turned out to the city’s benefit – the first wave of industrialisation, the auto boom, the leather impetus, the privatisation of technical education, the investments in social uplift, the leaps in health both in private and public spheres, and the protection of regional identity.
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