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Chennai Vs. Bangalore: How do I get to the Mall?

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Doppler · The Heat Is On Field Notes — Infrastructure Chennai vs. Bangalore: How Do I Get to the Mall? By Wei Liang Tan  ·  Contributor A note of thanks, first, to the Chief, for commissioning a follow-up to my last dispatch and not, as I half expected, sending someone from a fictional wing of MI6 to have a word with me about deadlines. (If you haven't read Cold , his, free on Wattpad, and better than a Chief Editor has any right to write in his spare time, go do that first. I'll wait.) A Note From the Chief I asked Liang to not add a YouTube style CTA, but he was insistent, so here it is. I came back to Chennai expecting the city I left. I did not get it. A year is not supposed to be enough time to change a place this size, and yet here we are. And no, before anyone reaches for the obvious complaint, it isn't the traffic. Traffic is Chennai's constant, its weather, the thing you factor in ...