Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Footpaths for whom? Surely, not for advertisement billboards!

It was Independence Day and I was out on the road, without a car but many a care.

My mobile phone camera kept clicking pictures of Mera Bharat Mahaan. In a bus, looking at the dirty Cooum (river) behind the posh Connemara Hotel... Here is one picture of what is left of the footpath or sidewalk at Chennai's best known junction, Arts College.

If it will impress you, this atrocity on pedestrians has been perpetrated with the help of the World Bank, which has been loaning funds to the Tamil Nadu Government in the name of improving civic infrastructure!

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