Sunday, July 21, 2013

Chennai in Novels


All Indian fiction novels happen in Delhi, Bombay or any other city in north. Doesn't anyone out in Chennai or a Mysore have a story or maybe it doesn't sound interesting to say anything about these cities?

I wanted to read a story which easily references Pondy Bazaar in the same vein as Sarojini market in Delhi or shopping in Nungambakkam as chic as in Colaba in Mumbai. A drive around Marine drive would be replaced by a bike ride near Marina beach. Oh yea Chennai has got one of the maximum number of bike riders in India, so instead of a BMW or a Audi it would be a Pulsar,  India Gate replaced by our own Anna Samadhi?!

Is Chennai way too traditional which doesn’t have some interesting story of its own? Not sure how traditional is connected to this, but you get the point right?

Interesting in the sense like college fun, booze, virginity, late night parties, discotheque, office politics, business dynasties. 

Oh, that reminds me, what's late night in Chennai? Tucked in your bed by 11? Yes, it's strict out here! We have one of the largest numbers of engineering colleges in India; don’t we have any story based out of them? Does Indian novel sell only when it is based around Mumbai or Delhi?
Let me start researching today to see if there are any stories out there...or let me finish the story I have in my draft for ages!

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