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    28 December 2005

    Home and away

    I returned from a memorable three-week trip to Madras. This year, following the record triple rainfall and being bombarded by depression after depression, Madras wore a different look all through the winter. The roads were deprived of tar and considerably worse while the heavens looked a lot more magnanimous to the December-wanderer. As always with a trip made after more than a year, I had to brace myself for radical change -- both in the people and in the places. And I did find it, reassuringly positive at times and disturbingly degenerative at times. I hope to write up travelogue snippets in the following weeks to describe what I saw and felt.




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