New Year event is celebrated at Chennai in a more unique way;
There are parties to celebrate - all categories (1) Club Nite Parties with alcohol (2) Non-alcoholic and the third one a get together type.
Visiting temples with family members and having a nice dharsan of murthy. Calling on close relatives and friends
Attending Music, Dance and Drama programmes held at various Sabhas
It has nice breaches like Marina, Elliots and Covelong
Shopping and Food plazas
Games which are fun to play
And there are Brain Gym too.
NRIs are none else than a bunch of normal people some with never-return to India and some with now-return to India with most with Indianness.
As for NRIs celebrating their new year at Chennai, I have the following news item published in yesterday's Times of India which speaks about NRIs returning back to India not only for celebration, but to live at Chennai.
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Brain drain in reverse
It's a question Dr Paul Ramesh Thangaraj has been asked several times since 2002, the year he decided to move back to India after a decade long stint in the UK.
Why would a cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon based in the UK want to work in Chennai?
It's an answer, admits Dr Thangaraj, which has changed over the years."In 2002, I made the move because I wanted to be in the same city as my parents as they were getting older," he says. "A year later I decided to stay on because I wanted my children to grow up in India, with family . But after those first couple of years, he stayed on for purely professional reasons. "India, and Chennai especially, was on the cusp of a healthcare boom and I realized that if I stayed back in India I would be part of something much bigger," says the 48-year-old.
Today , it's a decision he does not regret. Since his return, he has spearheaded the heart and lung transplant programme in Apollo Hospitals Chennai, where more than 60 multi-organ transplants have been performed to date, including Asia's first en-bloc combined heart and liver transplant, done this year. "If I had chosen to return to the UK in 2002, I would have remained a cog in the wheel, but here I got a chance to steer the ship," he says. " Abroad, I would have been seen as a competent surgeon. Today, I am a more fulfilled one."
Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Brain-drain-in-reverse/articleshow/50251723.cms
