IIT Madras Incubation Cell along with TiE Chennai had organised a one-day exhibition today – Chennai Demo Day, a marketplace for businesses. The venue was the spacious IIT Madras Research Park, Taramani. For the last few years, IIT Madras has been successfully incubating startups in the areas of rural, social and technology. Today, the public and investor community got a chance to see many of these companies with their solutions for clean energy, healthcare, education, mobility…
My friends Viji Hari and Kiruba Shankar had invited me for a dinner meet organised by the Professional Speakers Association of India to celebrate the…
Unbelievable! An ordinary photo I took of a neighbourhood park in Chennai was viewed over 60,000 times in Google Maps. Overall, all the photos I…
Last month I had been to Indore, Madhya Pradesh on a food tour. While there, everyday for breakfast, I was treated to varieties of Indori Poha, which I fell in love. Poha is flattened rice (அவல் in Tamil) cooked along with an assortment of spices, topped with nuts and served with sev. In the evenings, I had tried Sabudana vada (ஜவ்வரிசி in Tamil) which is a fried snack made with Tapioca Sago. Food items in Indore was…
I laugh when I hear my (North Indian) friends say we don’t get good Lassi’s when they visit Chennai. It is just that they don’t…
