Chennai seems to defy definitions with exceptions to the rule and rules to the exceptions.  According to the CII, Chennai is estimated to grow to a $100-billion economy, 2.5 times its present size, by the year 2025.

It has a vibrant film and music industry, a burgeoning “international dance class” movement, India’s best health care facilities and has the beginnings of some of India’s most forward political movements.

. I have attempted to delve beneath clichés and with photographs tell stories about the secrets, trials and ethos of urban Chennai.  Given the impression that the urban yuppie so to speak is literate, English speaking and “modern” in his thinking.  I have consciously avoided only shooting “a class of persons.

To hopefully compassionately and on occasion with humour reveal to you my take, on what it is to be young, employed and alive in Chennai today, regardless of ones language, economic class or social skills.