MARINA
Marina Known as the Pride of
Chennai, the Marina beach stretches for about 13 km making it the second
longest beach in the country. The urban beach has white sand and is considered
to be one of the busiest beaches in India.
The beach was damaged by
waves as high as 20 feet during the tsunami in 2004.
The beach is one of the most
prominent open spaces in Chennai and is host to many important national and
cultural events like the parades on Independence Day and Republic Day. The
annual Chennai Marathon, India’s biggest city marathon, starts from Anna Square
near Marina beach. The Pongal celebration in January attracts an estimated
150,000 people on the beach for the festivities. The Marina Beach has been
featured in numerous Tamil movies over the years.
The beach also has a skating
arena, jogger’s track and aquarium. Pony rides, merry-go-rounds and giant
wheels are also on the beach.
Beach cricket and kite
flying are popular activities on the beach. A giant chessboard is a favourite
with children.
The sea is rough and there
is a strong undercurrent so swimming is strictly prohibited near the beach but
there are two swimming pools along the beach.
Marina beach became more
tourists friendly: Thousands of tourists including foreigner visit Marina very
often. It displays different entertainments. It provides all necessary
facilities and to make visitor comfortable. It runs from near Fort St George in
the North to Besant Nagar in the South, a distance of 13 km making the longest
natural urban beach in the country and the worlds second longest.
The morning time is meant for
walking and exercise. Police on horses stop vehicles at the entrance from 5 am
to somewhat 7.30 am. People are coming in large to marina for doing their
exercise, jogging, practicing boxing etc.
People will practice early in
the morning in marina beach everyday. We
can also see people practicing boxing. They are well prepared with water and
other necessary requirements. The person in the right side was once the
champion of boxing.
Yoga by the beach: marina beach
is a calm and quite place in Chennai. It provides a clean surrounding so that
people can do yoga and exercises with immense concentration. It is the favorite
place for people from all walks of life.
A grand inaugural function of
the Quartoseptcentennial celebration, a curve of sports competition for school was
took place in marina. It included a mini marathon race also which started from
St Peters School in Royapuram. A documentary magazine of school was also
released.
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Lack of security:
Serious event is going on the background but this small kid is not aware about
that. He is playing with his toy.
You run we follow! We have the
power to create and destroy! Yes we are the media: The mini marathon conducted
successfully was covered by the medias.
A foreigner is walking from one
end to the other in marina. He is enjoying each wave in marina beach. We see
thousands of people walking through the beach enjoying the beauties of the
beach everyday.
This photo captured during the
marathon conducted by TCS. An ambulance is passing by the side of the
participants for providing a helping hand in case of emergency.
“We are happy, we have nothing
to prove, and we are just doing what we love”: children’s who are living in
slum have no money to spent on at least toys. They are playing with those
materials, which are thrown away by others after their use. But they are feeling
comfortable and happy with what they have.
People are giving less respect
to the police because of their silly attitude. Many police are found in the
park near marina beach who are engaged in various activities other than what
they are appointed for...
A vehicle got its tyre
puncture. The persons in the vehicle found to difficult to change the tyre,
since it contains materials weighting more than two tons.
“Lets celebrate mother tongue”:
We must agree late Nelson Mandela, who said “if you talk to a man in a language
he understands, that goes to his head, if u talk to him in his language it goes
to his heart”.
Finding difficulty: There is no
shortage of skills of labour, rather the problem is poor management for
supplying old tools.
There was a camp held by many
schools near marina beach and its final competition was held on February 21,
2014. Here a boy is being questioned by the examiner.
The difference between the
impossible and the possible lies in to man’s determination: Vivekananda Swami
museum landmark in Chennai, which is inspiration to thousands of people who
visit there. For the repairing’s workers risks their life, as they are well determined
to perform their task.
It is very common to see many
street dogs in marina beach. It is troublesome for many tourists. These dogs
are seen near to those people who are having food. They will just wait for the
thrown away food items by the tourists.
Marina beach also witness the
sad living conditions of many poor people. There are hundreds of people who
doesn’t have their own house and reside near the beach. They just live the life
as it comes.
It was
an inspiring prayer session that took place in a colony near marina beach. There
are more than twenty-five people took a part in that session. They continued
their prayer for long.
I took this image just to show that many
foreigners are coming to marina to enjoy their life.
Irresponsible city police: A bike was parked in a No
parking zone. I pointed it out that two lady polices are standing close by that.
They refuse to take an action. They are busy chatting and proving that they are
irresponsible and this brings down peoples respect towards police.
Welded to their work; it is a
livelihood for some carved out of compulsion to each more for others. It is the
love for the profession acquired. Over years that keeps them going does the
work as per worked by the government. So as to do the work in marina beach too.
