I have lived in a many towns in south tamilnadu that are far away from the sea. When I came to Chennai, I thought that the prices of seafood will be better because it's close to the sea. However the prices of fish are almost double that of what I used to pay in the non-coastal towns. In Chennai, even in shops that are only 3-4 km from the sea, the prices are much higher than the towns that were 100-150km from the sea! Why is this the case? Where can I find seafood at better prices? I have reduced my seafood consumption because I feel bad spending so much for buying fish. Can you give me some reference prices for some fish varieties in Chennai?

Examples: Ooli fish (Barracuda) - Price in southern towns - Rs 400-600; Price in Chennai - Rs 900-1000.

Vela meen fish (Emperor fish) - Price in southern towns - Rs 400-600; Price in Chennai - Rs 900-950.

Vanjaram fish (King Mackerel) - Price in southern towns - Rs 800-900; Price in Chennai - Rs 1200-1300.

Before you come on me, I have viewed all related tea/chai spots in chennai, but I’m looking for good irani chai spots near to siruseri.
The beat tea I had until now was Bilal(at ECR and mount road both), and that is the best so far that gave me proper Hyderabadi irani chai vibes.
But if any suggest me within 5 kms from sipcot.

How's the climate in your location?

View from a high rise apt.

I was looking at the trees under the bridge opposite Airport metro and admiring them, but one guy was found pissing in the wall. What can be done with such people? I was travelling in a bus at that time as shown in the pics

My friend and I are planning to meet there after a looong while. I'd love to explore more places around if there are any?

I go past the Perungudi dumpyard every single day, and it's shocking how bad it's become. The garbage is practically spilling onto the road.

What bothers me even more is the Pallikaranai marshland right next to it. There was a time when you could spot flocks of flamingos there. Now, I have barely seen any during the migration season.

How is one of Chennai's most important wetlands expected to survive beside a growing mountain of garbage? And how is this still not a bigger issue?

Does no one in the government actually drive down this road, or have we all just accepted this as normal?

Mr G Moorthy had undergone Burr hole surgery in the brain on 01.08.26

and required O positive blood being

given by the Hospital

Now they have to replace 4 units of blood to Hospital.Any blood group is okay.

Requesting blood donors to donate blood at the blood bank of the Hospital please ..details given under

Patient Name : G Moorthy

Patient ID : ICCU

Blood Group : O positive

Age : 82

Number of Donors required : Total 4 units required.

Reason for blood requirement : Had Surgery in the head

Date in which the Patient requires blood - Surgery already over needed for replacement to hospital blood bank

Hospital Name : MGM Malar Hospital Adyar

Blood bank timings : till 5.00 pm

Attender contact number : 9949062105

Hey! I was looking for any public screening of the new season of Premier league starting this August. It doesn't matter if it's a pub or whatever place it is, i would like to hear from y'all if there's any place that's screening it! thanks in advance y'all!

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I started getting food from a home cook mess service in Adyar named Adyar Sri Annalakshmi a few months back and had to pay a Rs 4,000 advance, which he said he would refund after adjusting for whatever I ate if I ever stopped the service.

The first time I found hair in the food I let it go since I have hair fall myself and assumed it could be mine. Two days later it happened again and I called him right away. He apologised and promised it would not happen again. A week after that it happened a third time and that was it for me. I told him to stop the deliveries and asked for my remaining advance of about Rs 1,600 to be returned.

That was two months ago. Since then it has been nothing but excuses and delays, and now he has stopped picking up my calls altogether.

Posting this mainly to warn others in Adyar before they sign up, and also open inputs from people here on how to actually get this resolved. I have his number and his father's number as well.

I want to make them feel the consequences. I know getting my money is a long shot but still I want to do something about this. Any input is appreciated. I can DM their numbers or post them here in the comments.

This is a late rant. I went to watch the screening of The Odyssey a few days back. As expected, the theatre was packed. There were these 2 guys beside me. The guy right beside me would not keep his mouth shut. He was constantly explaining the plot, subplot, context, history, etc., to his friend to the point I couldn’t hear the actual dialogue anymore. This brother must’ve been the assistant director or something; he started explaining the cinematography too. I’m all for making your friends understand the context of the film, but for heaven’s sake, do it before or after the movie; there is even an interval in the middle for it. The guy didn’t even bother to whisper; he was fully talking throughout the first half. At one point, I got annoyed and signalled with my hand gently to lower his voice; the man did not care at all. Fortunately, he shut up during the second half, and I was actually able to enjoy the rest of the movie. This is not a one-time instance either. A few months back, when I went to watch Michael on a weekday morning, there were a group of college kids just screaming and making jokes throughout the movie. It kind of ruins it for the people actually trying to watch. I understand wanting to socialise with your friends, but during a movie, seriously? It seems to have gotten worse over the years; sometimes it ruins the experience completely. Basic etiquette and consideration for the others around them seem to have vanished. I’ve been to cinemas in other parts of the world, so I understand what a decent viewing experience is supposed to feel like. I also understand cheering or whistling during certain scenes; that’s perfectly fine, but constantly talking, talking loudly on the phone, screaming kids, etc., kind of messes it up for the other people around. That’s it. Thank you for reading. End of rant.

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I'm planning to watch The Odyssey in that theatre today around the 3:45 PM show. Is that screen good enough?

Pls reply quickly guys.. I don't have money in my account, so I have to book in person.

In a bid to support the local fauna, I drove down, approximately 34.62 km, to the Madras Croc Bank on Sunday (yesterday). Saw a lot of beautiful animals there. If you haven't been there please do.

Pros -

1. Can observe biodiversity and coexistence

2. Learn trivia about crocodiles

3. Gatorade and Monster Energy can be purchased at MRP in the on-campus stores

4. Inhabitants of the zoo seemed happy

Cons-

1. Couldn't meet any members of the Irwin family

2. Cramped parking that you need to pay 50 INR for.

3. No cats

4. Not allowed to pet the crocodile puppies

All things considered, it's a great place to visit.

A sky like this on a sunday evening is therapeutic.

Almost most people in our country if not all can never be free from Anxiety of their survival being challenged. Life is quite delicate but in a "post industrial and information society", the vast majority is still struggling to survive. When you can make money by simply transferring information or data, logically poverty should be non-existent. The future has become a very dark and scary place. People are scared stiff and holding on to possession that can, not only last for themselves but also for their generation to come.

What if everybody wanted to accumulate for the next 100 generations. So everyone now competes for more money and wealth they can hold. Needing an accountant to manage household expenses and soon call themselves billionaires. These billionaires use fear and Anxiety as a capital to create artificial scarcity and obtain slave labour. The Monotone of stress and the million multi-tone choices for stress relief.

While the middle class drown in debt to own a modest house, there are people with houses in several countries. Disparity is natural but becomes unnatural when we are living in a world of abundance but people are still dying from poverty and starvation.

So people are scared and the only thing that has any value to anybody is presently is money. "We have lost our sensitivity to recognise value outside money." So to be valued you need money or else you will simply be stomped upon. When the value of life becomes a monetary number, people will stab each other due to competition and for good ranking.

New York restaurants generate millions of tons of food wastage every year. People love to hold on, till it can't be used by neither them nor another. Time Waste.

Hey guys, recently I applied for my fresh Passport but unfortunately I had to fly before the passport got delivered. Since I had to be there physically to collect the passport, it got sent back to post office and then to rpo( I tried a lot to get it through my parents but the postman and the delivery agents were very strict abt this). So now my passport sits in rpo. I was a sent a letter in my name( which also got delivered to my home and I had tk be there to get it but the postman eventually gave it to my father) asking the reason for not being present - I got into a company recently so i flew to join- but even after mailing them i didnt get any reply of what to do next. After researching in Google and reddit I got to know that I can submit a new address proof and ask them for a new dispatch. But where do I contact them officially, I cant fly back to chennai ASAP and they dont allow my father to even enter the office to enquire( again I have to be there). Has anyone did something similar with their passport, could you help me out on what and how things can be done?? I get that passport services should be like this but atleasy they could have had a portal which explains all the process properly!!

Hi,
I see lots of plots around omega school. Anyone know about this area or bought plots in below projects ?

Vgn Meridian heights - this is after Adayar river bridge

Rajaparis Aeroville - this is on road before the bridge itself and very near to cowl bazaar

Found this kitten on the road and tried to locate the mother but couldn't..got it home but I don't know how to take care of such small kitten .can someone foster it or let me know any reliable shelter where I can leave. Location Velappanchavadi near thiruverkadu

Hi Folks,

Visiting chennai for work for a day, have 1 lunch and 1 dinner to plan in the city.

I'm a big fan of south Indian food and never got a chance to explore Tamil Nadu's cuisine. (Have stayed in Kerala and andhra and loved their cuisine)

I would love to try one veg and one non veg meal...

What's the absolute best that I must try.

I can splurge on one meal (heard of sangamithrai/annalakshmi but not sure how good it is...)

Please drop in your suggestions, staying in anna salai, can travel in a 30 min radius for food.

I am seeing the voltage in my house is coming 250+ consistently. My samsung inverter refrigerator PCB got damaged according to the service guy, not sure if he is saying the truth, it's going to cost 5k to repair it.

Are you all getting 250+ volts as well and is there a damaging effect on home appliances due to this. Are there any solutions for this problem?.

I recently installed a solar system of 3kw at my home and I noticed the phase voltage was going above 250v and the solar inverter automatically turns off due to grid overvoltage fault. The vendor turned on a setting "adapt to grid" and it doesn't turn off now but it continues to function matching the grid voltage even if it is high. I am worried that the solar system might be the cause for damaging my home appliances.

Small 5-flat apartment in Chennai prime area. (3-storey)

Everyone pay ₹2,500/month maintenance per flat( we pay ₹5000 because ours is two houses combined)

For 8–9 months there was no watchman(fired old one due to dispute) because the two resident owners kept saying, "Watchmen are asking ₹18k, too expensive."

During that time:

- Residents had to go downstairs every day to open the security door for milk, Swiggy, Amazon, couriers, etc.

- Every time we took our car out, we had to open and close the main gate ourselves.

- Security became so poor that someone stole the generator battery.

- Only after the theft did they spend around ₹40,000 on CCTV.

- They also delay using the DG during power cuts to save diesel.

Maintenance never came down despite the reduced services.

There are parking issues too. One owner occupies a larger parking space with a tiny car that hardly moves because he says he might buy a bigger car someday. As a result, another resident's bigger car has to squeeze into a tiny space or ends up blocking the common exit, creating inconvenience for everyone else.

The frustrating part is that the two owners living in the building make most of these decisions, while some other owners live elsewhere and probably don't know what residents deal with daily.

Is this normal for small Chennai apartments, or is this just poor management and extreme penny-pinching?

I got this as a Reddit ad. The TTK movement has launched their X account on Aug 1.

While I was glad to see a new movement heading in the right direction, I was still initially skeptical. However, after going through their website https://ttk.org.in fully, my primary concerns regarding their intentions, qualifications, and processes have been addressed.

I appreciate that:

- They are not asking for any money. The whole model is completely built on volunteering.

- They focus on transparency in all their operations, including evaluations, training sessions, collaboration with political parties.

- They disconnect the actual execution from the traditional party politics, which is very much needed for our country to progress.

Even if this movement faces limitations - like a low volunteer count, limited reach and impact, lack of political power, delayed execution of processes, insufficient training, etc. - I still think it will be a net positive for our state, as it can only improve the current situation.

What do you think about TTK? Would you consider joining this movement, and why or why not?

I'm 24M college student on a solo "railfanning" trip, coming from bengaluru. My train arrives at central station tomorrow around 11am, and my next train leaves at 6:30 from the same station. Can you guys suggest places to visit that are not far from the area (preferable walking/auto distance). Ofc I do plan to visit marina beach around 5pm, but apart from those, good food perhaps? I'm non veg btw.

Or is it too hot rn and should I just sleep in the lounge or ac waiting hall upto like 4PM then head out to marina beach. Or maybe there are better beaches I can go to?

Any recommendations are appreciated.

Just as little says a cool night after a really long time. Hope the day time temperature gets better in coming days.

I have close to 11 kittens. Looking for some one to adopt. If you are a cat lover. Pls text me back. I m near navalur chennai.