Ever heard of a Croatian - Darko Ronald Suvin and his pet theory ?
திமலா நிர்வாகம் ~ உங்கள் வேண்டுகோள் 20.2.2080அன்று காலை 10:16 உங்களுக்காக ஒதுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.நேரந்தவறாமால்வரவும் !;இந்த அட்டையும் வரவும். உங்கள் பார்வையாளர் எண்164396
~ lines from a famous short story of my favorite Sujatha. Decades ago, our family started on a pilgrimage to the holy Thirumala Tirupathi – we started from home, by bus reached Broadway area.Then boarded bus to Andhra from MUC grounds.The Madras United Club is one of the oldest Indian clubs in the city, was founded in 1888 to foster outdoor and indoor games as was being done in the Madras Cricket Club and the Madras Gymkhana Club of the British. Prince Ranjitsinjhi, the great cricketer, was one of its Patrons.It has seen many changes, for sometime Tirupathi (and buses to other places in Andhra) operated from Elephant Gate.eventually got down at Madhavaram in a big expansive bus terminus .. .. it is the Madhavaram Inter-city Bus Terminus, a new satellite bus termini of Chennai, providing outstation transport services. Spread over an area of 8 acres (32,000 m2), it has been built to decongest the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus in Koyambedu. It handles buses to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, including holy Tirupati, Nellore, Vijayawada, Kurnool, Puttaparthi, Visakhapatnam, Bhadrachalam, and Hyderabad.Web searches reveal that the infrastructure was built in 2018 at a cost of ₹ 950 million and was inaugurated on 10 October 2018 by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami.
Spread over an area of 8 acres (32,000 m2), it is built in two levels. The level at grade can accommodate 42 buses and the upper level can accommodate 50 buses. There are nine slots meant for city buses. The parking space can hold 1,700 two-wheelers and 72 cars.It is to have stairs, elevators, ATMs, shops, restaurant, crew rest room,health clinic, pharmacy and a dormitory.The premises is lit by five high-mast lights.Right now there are not much of city buses and the places does not appear to be well connected –hope this would change in the coming months.
This story titled ‘Thimala’ that you read at the start – is set a hundred year after – wife of a very busy Computer specialist, gets this allotment – and she travels in spaceship.. .. with technology taking you to later years – it would end that they visit the holy Thirumala .. .. the above of Lord Sri Venkateswara.Read somewhere Sujatha describing it as ‘cognitive estrangement’ theory. Darko Ronald Suvin is a Croatian born academic and critic who became a Professor at McGill University in Montreal.He is best known for several major works of criticism and literary history devoted to science fiction. He was editor of Science-Fiction Studies from 1973 to 1980. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences).In 2009, he received Croatian SFera Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction. For Suvin, the key to cognitive estrangement is the presence in a story or novel of what he calls a ‘novum’, that is a device or machine that is absolutely new and whose presence compels us to imagine a different way of conceiving our world. In his story, Srirangam Rangarajan aka Sujatha connects the holy Thirumala to a thought decades later.. when the World becomes very very busy !!
~ with regards – S. Sampathkumar 23rd Feb 2019.