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It is really unfortunate that Lonely planet, which is suppose to be a travel guide to the people all over the world, describes Chennai as a hot place with nothing to do. I condemn such an article. This is not to say that I absolutely love Chennai and that the article has hurt my feelings or any crap like that. But simply that this is an instance of irresponsible reporting. And I condemn it for this reason. I remember my first few months in Chennai. They were really not that great. Not the kind of days to which I would like to go back. The article from Lonely Planet describes Chennai in a way I would have, had I left Chennai after first 6 months. But I stayed there for six years! I got a chance to know the city better and I, a girl from Bombay, started liking the place. The following post is divided into three sections: 1. Specific criticisms about the Lonely Planet article. 2. Why is Chennai a good place to stay in? 3. What are the things about Chennai which could be changed for bett...

Finally Bombay gets to see some lovely rain. This isn't a good news for most, as the rain is causing floods all over the place. But one cannot stop feeling awesome (with a feeling of guilt) looking at the sea while it rains so heavily here. Marine drive looks just perfect when it rains and the skies are grey and the leaves lush green. For people who love Bombay here is a simple quiz question: If you were to take a friend of yours to the best place in Bombay, which would it be? My answer is the most typical one, Marine drive. (Also watch Wake up Sid to know why I use the word "typical" to describe my choice. More about Wake up Sid later.) Also here is a simple and cute problem I came across. Let s be a sequence of numbers from {1,2,...,n}. Let the Longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS) be a set of numbers from the given sequence s, such that when its elements are arranged in the order in which they appear in s, they are increasing and there is no other subset of numbers (st...