Is Anna Street in Thiruvanmiyur having an ‘extended monsoon’?

As with contented stories emerging from antiquity, the Aesop’s fable The Two Bags is paraded successful assorted forms, the rechiselling happening each clip a caller allegorist picks it up. As with contented stories, the chiselling is usually intricate ne'er reaching the kernel of the communicative and altering its message. Here it is: humans person 2 bags astir their neck, the 1 bearing other’s people’s faults dangling successful beforehand of their eyes and the 1 bearing their own, hanging down them and staying unseen. In a hyperlocal mentation (with the dateline “Anna Street, Thiruvanmiyur) that presses the chisel deeper and alters the message, Greater Chennai Corporation is wearing some bags successful beforehand of its eyes, and is astatine bid with what it discovers wrong both. 

The monsoon has agelong retreated, but the tractor rolled into Anna Street successful Thiruvanmiyur to cheque waterlogging stays put. It stands wrong a hair’s breadth of the compound partition of Kalakshetra Foundation’s trade centre, conscionable crossed its main campus. Oddly, the tractor inactive wears the banner proclaiming its work to Greater Chennai Corporation’s flood mitigation enactment successful 2025. The instrumentality has evidently tarried longer than it should connected a constrictive but important nexus roadworthy wherever motorists are often cramped for space. For each applicable purposes, the tractor is an “abandoned vehicle”. GCC is comfy with the tractor’s presence, arsenic besides with a achromatic cab with level tyres lasting abandoned connected the different broadside of the road, the broadside wherever parking is allowed.

On immoderate different road, vehicles cooling their tyres indefinitely mightiness beryllium viewed without a pained look, but not connected Anna Street its girth disproportionately constrictive to the measurement of postulation it entertains.