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I live in poonamalle with no AC, fridge, and power backup. For the past month or so it's just so fucking hot I have no more will to live anymore. Every day it's like 40°c and feels like 50°. Nights are cooler only by 2 or 4° it doesn't even make any difference at this point.

I spend my entire day at home completely naked with two fans. I have a pedestal fan right next to me and the air is just HOT. I try showering at night to cool myself down. I don't own a water heater yet the water is HOT at 10 pm.

And now we have power cuts too. No power this midnight and I felt like a roast chicken inside an oven.

These days I find myself going crazy, having migraines, mood swings, suicidal thoughts because the heat is on my mind 24/7. I've even stopped eating and smoking because my body is only accepting ice cream and soft drinks.

Istg I spent my past 3 years in ECR and it was never THIS FUCKING HOT over there. Even treachery is made of ice, poonamallee is just a whole new dimension of hell.

Are there any Tamil forex traders here? 👋

Most trading communities I come across are either overloaded with fake flexing/signals or don’t really have active discussions for Tamil traders.

Would honestly be nice to have a space where people can discuss:
• Market insights
• Trade setups
• Risk management
• Trading psychology
• Gold/Forex/Indices
• Beginner learning resources

Not trying to sell anything or promote signals — just wanted to see if there are traders here interested in genuine discussions and learning together.

Would love to hear your thoughts/experiences in trading too 📈

Hello y'all, So I've been planning to go for MGM later next week, and since due to the heat wave, will the crowd during this time be less, or should I splurge more on the fast track lane, so I can avoid the heat and the crowd as a whole?

Reg tix cost 999

fast track costs around 1.5k

I know most of the instagram influencers recommended shops are overrated and not worthy of the cost.

Ganapathy Military Hotel. Choolai's prawn half boil dosa sucked big time. Prawn thokku was not cooked properly. Chilli powder smell came from the thokku and prawn was tasteless. Their regular gravy is watery and tasteless. Mutton Leg Pepper Paya Fry was not cooked properly.

Recently coming across Vathiyar Parotta Kadai in Valasaravakkam, Yunis Bhai Kadai in T,Nagar etc. I am sure they suck too.

What are the other overrated restaurants in Chennai?

What are real tasty restaurant if you came across? Most of old eateries lost taste.

I am carrying 6-7 rolls of Kodak gold and other film rolls which are undeveloped and unused. Passing them through x ray would ruin them. Would the airport security hand check them if I carry it in clear plastic bag?

looking to talk with cafe and restaurant owners, not the generic kind but the speciality cafes and restaurants. if you're one looking to grow via social media pls hit me up!

4 day visit. I'm pregnant, I may be coming just to eat 😂 i have benne dosa in mind, some good biriyani, good variety of kongu cuisine. I'm counting on youuu, drop some recs for me please. Alsooo the best area or most convenient place to find muslin baby clothes, and comfy maternity / postpartum friendly essentials and all that, if you know, let me know! TIA

Vanakkam makkale,

Naan Brother DCP-T426W use panren. Original Brother BTD60BK/BT5000 ink set refill panna paatha cost konjam adhigama irukku.

Amazon la SplashJet and Ravaria compatible inks paathen (screenshots attached). Price original ink vida romba kammiya irukku.

Indha printer use panravanga compatible ink-ku switch pannirukeengala?

Long-term use la:

Print quality eppadi irundhuchu?

Print head clogging issue vandhucha?

Color accuracy/fading problem irundhucha?

Printer life affect aachaa?

Particularly Chennai la yaaravadhu compatible ink use pannitu nalla experience irundha share pannunga.

Naan mostly documents print pannuven, color prints occasional-a dhan.

Ungaloda real experience therinjikka aasai. Thanks! 🙏

Hello folks!

I am sure there's plenty of such groups that already exist but none that caught my eye or my peers's attention.

creating a simple group for startup founders, agencies, creators.

Sole purpose is with the intent that everyone gets to connect and grow plus I have noticed not a lot happening within the startup culture here!

If you're interested then DM!

Since 10PM last night, power is not there. Even DG power is not reliable. So much for staying in a gated society. 😡

When will the power be back? I can't spend the whole night like this. I'm drenching in sweat. 😭

EDIT :- Ippo power vandhutanga guys, nalla thoongunga

EDIT 2 :- Thiruppi poita 😭

Posting from our organic farm from Vellore. We have a fresh batch of Totapuri mangoes ready this week — ripe and near-ripe, hand-picked, no chemical sprays.

Best for: aamchur, pulp, juice, jam, mango rice, pickle, or fresh eating if you like Totapuri's sourness. Eat fresh in next 2-3 days or pulp + freeze for the year ahead.

Juice bars, ice cream parlours, restaurants, or households that want 10-30 kg for the season - DM me. Pickup from direct farm location / or can be transported.

First come first served.

Hi guys, I'm trying to learn German to further my job opportunities and not just as a hobby but i actually would need certification to apply for the Jobs. So would welcome any online/offline resources in chennai or classes that had helped you.

Thank you 🙌🏻

Edit 1: Added in chennai

Power cut happening every 30 mins and last up to 2-3 hours. Not able to bear the Chennai heat with FAN.
Hope the situation resolves quickly.. illati sethan da Sekaru…

Edit 1:
After posting this, within last 30 mins 3 power cuts .. mudiyala

Edit 2: Power is back @10.50pm

Edit 3: 11.12 Current pochu .. Adei

Just wanted to drop a warning here for anyone planning a trip to Ooty or booking through a travel agency called Book One Tour. They just pulled a classic bait-and-switch on a family vacation I booked.

The Setup: I booked a full family package through "Book One Tour." To secure the booking and get my advance payment, their sales team sent me beautiful photos of premium rooms with clear views and balconies. Based on those specific images, I confirmed the booking.

The Reality:

We arrived at the hotel in Ooty yesterday after a long drive, only to find out they had booked us into the absolute lowest-tier standard room. The window was literally blocked by a cupboard, and the room looked nothing like the promotional photos. On top of that, the promised Wi-Fi was completely dead.

The Agency's Response:

When I confronted "Book One Tour" via WhatsApp, their customer service was completely unprofessional

Instead of fixing their booking error, they told me to go negotiate with the hotel manager.

When I asked about the broken Wi-Fi, the rep actually told me to "just use the Wi-Fi in the hall."

The rep then admitted that "all the rooms in the hotel are similar to yours," which completely proves the premium photos they used to sell me the package were entirely fake.

I asked for a very reasonable 10% deduction on the final package price due to the downgraded room and missing amenities. They flat-out refused, claiming they still had to pay the hotel and cab full price (which isn't my problem when they fail to deliver the promised service).

I ended up paying the final balance directly to the cab driver just to protect my family's peace of mind and not ruin our sightseeing today, but I am extremely disappointed.

"Book One Tour" uses fake photos of premium rooms to lock in your money, dumps you in budget rooms, refuses to take responsibility, and provides zero customer support when things go wrong. Avoid them if you value your money and your peace of mind on vacation.

(I have attached the photos they sent me vs. the room we actually got, along with the WhatsApp chat screenshots where they tell me to sit in the hallway for Wi-Fi in the link below).

https://disk.yandex.com/d/fxsSozZvpXfszQ

Not everyone can speak up to all srilankan tamils, that is what people from tamil nadu should understand, people also need to understand that a problem of caste and social injustice is deeply rooted into tamil culture irrespective of the country( india or Sri Lanka). just imagine in India especially tamilnadu has a huge influence of two great personalities like Dr Ambedkar and periyar and even your constitution has significant reservations to uphold social justice but yet even in 2026 caste is a relevant topic right, so imagine a scenario in which the issue of social justice and caste hierarchy is swept under the carpet and left unaddressed, that how the tamil community in srilanka is. So especially during the time of war most people who were known to have lost government jobs due to the sinhala only act in 1957 and the students who lost university admission due to standardization policy in 1971 are mostly the high caste and the upper middle class, so when the war started can you imagine who had the capability to get out to a European country first as a refugee? You guessed it right they are the people from the top layer of the tamil community( im not undermining the support they gave financially to aid the war but we all need to understand thst they aren’t in the field), people think each and every tamil in srilanka considers ltte to be some magical saviors of the community but no, there was always a conflict of interest within the community, that is something the tamil people should understand, the 1983 riots which is called the black july is a significant event because that helped the ltte to gain significant trust as many people thought there is no other option, this gave them a huge boost and many people no matter where they are in the social heirarchy supported were behind the ltte. Even during this time mass migration happened to the western countries, who were they? Obviously they are the ones who are economically stronger. And who are the ones who are in the frontline of the battle? They were the ones who are economically deprived and of backward castes, i also need to mention that prabakaran during this time was widely regarded as someone who took serious measures to bring down the social disparities as all of them had a common enemy, the srilankan government. This went on for about two decades.

By the early 2000s ltte were in an all time high, and the srilankan government saw underwent a huge economical recession. That when the peace talks happened and ceasefire agreement was signed and for the first time public could travel within the territories, the north and eastern tamils could come to Colombo and the southern sinhalese could go to the north. This peace time was there for few years. And another significant event took place during the time, it was the 9/11 attacks in USA, before that the world had a different view on freedom fighters and terrorism organization but after this event the world especially the west considered all arm struggles as an act of terror. This is the point where the “eelam” or the “tamizheezha thayagam” died. This is the exact point not may 18 2009, and this situation required significant calculations and strategic moves on how the where the ltte should head towards. This was the exact point in which the difference between a warrior and a diplomat was clearly visible, difference between a porali and an arasiyalvadi, because if we look back at tamil nadu, the dmk manifesto in the 1950s had a clear statement saying that their goal is to move towards creating a separate dravidian country, but right after the indo china war and the constitutional amendment in 1962 dmk and anna understood that there hope for an own country is no more so they were proactive and they changed their direction and goals, the ltte faced a very similar situation in the early 2000s during the peace process, they were offered to be under a federal system just like tamilnadu is in india, but you know what the ltte rejected the proposal. But both the parties were in a ceasefire and could travel between territories. Since two decades have been passed from 1983 to 2002, the young generation grew up middle of the conflict with bullets shellings and bombs. This time of peace hit different for them, they understood that the reasons why they had to go to a war was not there anymore and they could be living in there own state just like tamilnadu in india, this gave them hope before an ordinary young kid who has love who has dreams and family would never want to die for a country that is very far from reality, they would always want to live in peace, but the ltte didn’t want it and this created a rift between the ltte leaders and you can check this on YouTube that the issue of caste which was swept under the carpet came out slowly, some people started accusing that the high caste northern tamil are either migrated or they are in higher positions within the ltte but the low caste tamils or the eastern tamils are the ones who are in the frontline of the battle, or used as suíciďe bombers. This conflict of interest eventually lead to the karunas faction to break away from the ltte, by this time a significant number of ltte cadres left the struggle and went home saying that they ltte are fighting towards an unrealistic goal, this breakaway caused a huge loss in trust and hope on ltte among the people, who were considered once as saviors were now considered to be dictators,

and here i would like to quote a dialogue of the tamil movie kaithi in which karthi says if someone grew up in sorrow he should see peace, it really hurts if he was shown peace for a small time and then again put back to sorrow, this is what the young generation of tamil faced in srilanka, they tasted peace during they peace times for few years, they had love of their lives, they had dreams and hopes other than just to survive, for the first time in their lives they could bring down their guard and simply live, and long story short this didn’t go for a long time, the war resumed in 2006, but this time there was a huge conflict of interest between people and the ltte, the ltte cadres we down to 7000-8000 soldiers, the whole territory fell like a pack of cards. The territory kept shrinking and shrinking and you know the rest, who know how the was ended and how ugly it turned out, and definitely the way the then government handled things was pathetic, and it was the innocents who had to pay the price to which my heart bleeds even today.

I personally wish prabakaran would have settled for a federal system in 2002 just like what the dmk did in the 1960s as the hope for a tamil country was no more after 9/11, but he was adamant and didn’t want to give up and wanted to fight till the very end, i think he had chances to minimize the damage that went till mullivaikal in may 18.

So if someone is giving you an opinion of the issue please try to distinguish who he is, where he is an eelam tamil or an Eelam descent tamil. You might get completely different opinions from both of them. Because one saw the problem from a western country and another lived in it

48M here. Recently I’ve been feeling that as we grow older, life becomes routine and our social circle becomes smaller. Most friendships stay limited to work or old contacts, and meeting new people naturally almost stops.

I’m curious how people in Chennai above 40 handle this phase. Do you actively socialize, join communities, volunteer, attend events, or mostly stay within family/work life?

Personally I’m quite reserved, but I still miss genuine conversations and meaningful human connection sometimes.

Would be nice to hear how others deal with this in Chennai.

Last night power went out and did not came back until this morning in perungudi and tonight again? What the hell are they even doing? Can’t bear with this heat and humidity!

Hi im M22, living in chennai since my birth. I never felt this hot in my childhood, i notice the hot summer only post covid.
My question is was chennai this hot way back in 2005-2010??

Today in Saidapet, we had an unscheduled power cut from 11 AM to 5:30 PM. We raised complaints multiple times through customer care, but the complaints were closed twice without anyone attending by section.

Customer care said we need to complain in person, while the local EB line said it was due to metro-related work/digging. There was no prior information or proper timeline given.

How do you all deal with such long power cuts in Chennai? Is there any proper way to escalate complaints and get faster action instead of complaints being closed without resolution?

Seen similar posts here recently, so wanted to know if other areas are also facing this.

(P.S. Used ChatGPT to help structure the post better for clarity.)

So i noticed a sudden jump in influencers content and other social media content related to politics during the TN election week especially with regards to TVK party. And then a sudden silence, all those who were campaigning for Vijay are'nt speaking about this at all except a very few. I get that everyone has a life but still. Many influencers even claim something called route mafia was the reason for all the engagement. But my concern is that there arent many citizens demanding accountability. That's when i thought of something and pitched to a NGO organisation to make a stand about accountablity. We are focusing on a grass root level focused work that would start by listing every citizens individual concerns inside their own particular constituency, with regards to their life instead of generic politics at state or national level. So I request you all to help us help you out by listing your problem and your constituency below 🙏🏼