Wikipedia Takes Chennai

There is this “Wikipedia Takes Chennai” photography event on Sunday, Aug 16th as part of the Madras Day celebrations.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WTCI.

Wikipedia Takes Chennai is a a scavenger hunt and free content photography in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in association with The Knowledge Foundation, Chennai. This is inspired by “Wikipedia Takes The City” that happens all around the world. The aim of this exercise is to encourage participants to compete to take photographs of as many local sights as possible for Wikipedia articles. This is aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles, thereby nourishing Wikipedia and promote awareness about Wikipedia in the city.

And here is the poster for the event.

Zoho Ad on Chennai Autos

Advertisement of Zoho on an Auto Rickshaw in Chennai

Registration Number: BOSS

The Car’s registration number is actually 8055 but it is painted in such a way that it resembles BOSS. I got reminded of “SIVAJI – THE BOSS”

Beat the Heat with Coco Cool

This is a new addition on the roads of chennai. This mobile stall provides “Instantly Chilled Fresh Tender Coconut Water without mixing ice”. They are priced at Rs 15/-.

I saw two such mobile stalls on the Taramani-Velachery road. One near the American school and one near TCS. I haven’t tasted it. But I wonder if this is really needed. Wouldn’t it spoil the natural taste of tender coconut?

Next Change – Hoarding

This is an unique advertisement hoarding in Chennai which is fully covered with newspapers. I also saw these ads on Fast Track call taxis. Wonder what this advertisement is about.

Horse Riding on the Roads of Chennai

Horse Riding on the Roads of Chennai. At a Traffic signal in Mandaiveli.

SMS in Tamil

Aircel introduces Tamil SMS – An hoarding in Chennai

Mandaiveli Station

MRTS again. Mandaiveli Station at the top. You can see how incomplete some of the stations in the MRTS still are. The bottom one is the MRTS train at Velachery. The train is fully coverted with Vodafone advertisement.

Chennai Open Tickets

The ticket counter for Chennai Open and the long queue at 9:40 am. The daily ticket sales was to begin at 10:00 am today. The tickets for Quarter Finals, Semifinals and Finals were not sold today and there was confusion among the people.

MRTS Train

This is a picture of the MRTS Train at the Velachery station. MRTS was recently exptended till Velachery, the place where I work.