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In 2004 I moved to Velacharry, when very few would prefer a house there. Between 2004 and 2007 – the area developed so much so that someone told me that it is a prime area now. I had to vacate, and thanks to my landlady. I of course don’t blame her, but who doesn’t need MORE money. And now I have moved farther from Velacharry, and the developments signs have already started!

Roads are being put, new transformers are getting fixed, and I am sure it will become a hot spot in another 2 years, and the result would be as you have already guessed – I will be made to move further down! So if you have invested in land somewhere, where the value isn’t going up – then you surely can use me.

When writing this particular blog, my 3 ½-year-old-daughter rushed to my computer and said these people have put the mud outside our house – how can we go out now? And I didn’t have an answer. Agreed that they are putting the roads for our benefit, but this is the first time I am seeing the process of putting roads being executed in this particular way. They have put heaps of mud right in the middle of road, which we use, and there are no other roads we can use to come out. I just wonder how could this department not understand what my 3 ½ year-old-daughter can understand.

There are some 20 houses, and mostly all of them have cars. They all go to work. There were no notices given to us to park our vehicles somewhere else. And the people who had gone out in the morning, cannot park their vehicles at home when they reach home in the evening. And there is no place to park either.

I asked the guy, why don’t you put the mud in the corner of the roads – he says – it will be difficult to spread them then. I asked him, when would you spread them, he said Monday (today is Saturday). And my next question was, what should we do if we have to go to work or have any emergency in these 2 days – he said coolly, konjam adjust pannunge (please adjust)!

I think this concept of adjusting has gone a bit too much down our system. We adjust with the dirty bathrooms all around, we adjust with red tapism, we adjust with corrupt politicians, we adjust with dumb bosses, we adjust with frequent power cuts, we adjust with bad roads, and we also adjust with my favourite – the sick Chennai Auto Guys! I think it is high time we stopped adjusting, and start creating rebellion!