A Roadside Painter, Chennai, India.

Time: 8:30 pm.

Location: Guindy station, Chennai.

No one has to elaborate the city traffic at this time in this place. At this place i was in a need to find a place for parking the bike somewhere, since i need to wait for my friend siva and to pick him home. While searching for a parking place, i passed by a road-painting of Sai Baba and a lady collecting the coins thrown by the people crossing it. She was also adjusting the colours slightly at times. Having noticed this in many places i was really interested in knowing their living. So found some place, finally parked my bike and thought i would get into some conversation with the painter women there.I just came near the painting and kept watching for sometime. Few people crossed the place putting some money over the painting and few even stopped to pray to the painting of Sai Baba. By this time the source of light that she kept near got dimmed and she was getting the next one ready. Actually she was burning rolled piece of torn political posters that were posted nearby one by one as a light source(I was happy that these poster atleast has this use).

One evening at T-Nagar and Indian GDP(gross domestic product)

A week after the grand Diwali celebration i was going to meet a friend in T-nagar and waiting for her near the famous Renganathan street. The end of Diwali didn’t give much a rest to the all time busy street and it was crowded that day too. There came a woman with a child in her hand begging in the street . She went to a guy asking for the money telling him about her poverty and stuffs as she does to everyone all the 365 days. As a reply neither he gave some money nor sent her away but told her that he cannot give money but he can get something for her and the child to eat . Hearing that she became so happy and with a small hesitation asked “Sir, can you buy two ice creams”. That guy just smiling to himself got those ice creams , gave it to them and walked away . As a background score to all this, i was able to hear a guy selling newspaper “Interesting news sir , Indian GDP has reached ever high 9 point, …… ” , “Interesting news sir , Indian GDP has reached ever high 9 point, ……”