Vanakkam Doctor !

India has changed and Chennai by leaps and bounds. I was in Chennai very recently and came back only few weeks ago.   (Saturday 20 th August), after a so called three weeks reprieve or a holiday, or by whatever name you could call it!! The main event was the Stanley 1986 batch silver jubilee meet, which was held a week after our (family) arrival in Chennai. Sixteen of us, including Arun, Bala, and Chandru’s family have settled for our exciting journey on the 29 th afternoon from Manchester , preceded by a few months suspense and excitement over the dates and the venue. Well, we were grounded even before we started and thus how we began.   The Airbus 380 of Emirates luckily developed technical snags, before the flight was on its drive way and we were technically incarcerated for nearly 3 hours before we were let off with a ten pound voucher for each one of us for a quick snack. The flight eventually took off around 8pm local...

………The evening in Park hotel Bar was more than what we thought life in Chennai would be for those upper middle class and higher income Chennaites. We bumped into few sports icons of our age, notably Dennis Lillie, the maverick Australian pace man and few popular faces of Kollywood and Mollywood. The bar was very noisy though and the techno stuff was mostly crap and was in high decibels. However the birds were extremely good looking of all sorts, including svelte escorts accompanying, funny weird looking, Thoppai Thannivalas! Most of the birds were either smoking or high on their vodka cocktails, with very skinny and skimmed dresses, a delight to browse, after few a whiskies!! We were also joined later in the evening by Saravanan, Napaa and our talented maverick Prabakar for few pints. The chaps were slogging their way, tidying up the last few bits in the venue with T Karthi, who had apparently swallowed quite few shots and went for an early, quite lie in. However, we narrowly missed th...