They come in all sizes and shapes-the local Tamils are a majority but you will find a fair sprinkling of people from almost all the other states of India. Take a bus ride to the Town and you will feed at home if ypou will hear the singsong sweetness of Telugu. Bengali, Gujarati and, having been the British capital of Madras presidency for so long, with historic links with Britain, one can handle anything, be it shopping or sightseeing, armed only with English. Even the rickshaw wallah understands and speaks a sumattering of English.
Tradition bound, you will find the people deeply religious clinging with hide-bound tenacity to their habits as well as superstitions. Thus, even a highly educated person, fully dressed in suit and tie for work, will still stop to look for auspicious signs before leaving his doorstep in the morning. In Chennai, this is the thread of contrasts that you will find running through its day-to-day affairs.
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