The mrts does help people get around without traffic jams. Yes it could be better - those stations are all poorly sited and poorly constructed over-large, in the vague hope that people would turn those structures into shopping malls and the footfall would be far more than it currently is on the velachery - beach line (compared to the tambaram - beach commuter rail line, which is crowded even on holidays).
As for the temples - yes, beautiful, cultural, need to be preserved and all that, but do you seriously expect thiruvanmiyur to revert back to being a dense forest to set off the beauty of the temple and its tank? preferably with water lilies rather than pond scum but that's a detail. --srs (iPad) On 18-Apr-2013, at 20:15, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Much as I like the marundeeswarar and much as I don't like the MRTS >> station, your comparison doesn't hold true. Temple poetry is more about >> exaggeration of the attributes of the diety and less of architectural >> critique. > > > I can see poetry in imagining a time when this place was covered with > forest, and the imprint of man was vanishingly small - and out of it > arose a tower like no other, made brilliant by lines of oil lamps - > built with muscle and sinew - a paean to faith - towering over the > trees of the forest and adding its brass timbre to the chorus of the > birds. Man's voice as a challenge to nature. > > The MRTS evokes only the poetic character of yesterday's putrefying vomit. >
