Utopia

There's something about travelling to a South Indian City like Chennai, complicated by our stereotypical belief  -of an alienating language, and of food assumed to have been cooked only with  rice and coconut. The city to a cursory traveler, gives an impression of a metropolis stuck halfway through a time travel portal with some parts of it having been carried to the next millennium, and other parts still waking up to the discovery of fire. My anxiety about negotiating this city of nine million people, evaporated as I allowed Chennai to take me in....in a proper Chennai styla(e). 1)         Vaddakam - To every Rascala you meet in Chennai(a), greet. Chennaites are generally a hospitable race and a Vaddakam is sure shot way to get invited for a quick Kapi. Coffee is to Chennai what Vodka is to Russia, and Mind it you are not know by the amount of kapi you drink, but the amount of Chicory you drink. More the chicory, stronger the coffee, more respectable you are in the eyes of