Chennai is a city that lives in you: Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Rajmohan
Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Rajmohan reflects on his personal connection to Chennai, describing the city as a formative influence on his life and career. He highlights how the city's streets, bookstalls, and culture provided him with an education beyond traditional schooling.
Why it matters
The piece offers a humanizing perspective on a political figure and celebrates the cultural identity of a major Indian metropolitan center.
There are cities you live in, and there are cities that live in you. Chennai is the second kind. I was born on its soil, stumbled through its lanes as a boy who found books harder than most, I found my voice in front of a microphone in one of its radio studios, I made a fool of myself and a name for myself on its streets with a camera in hand, and today, I stand in a constitutional office in this same city because it never once let go of me. People ask me sometimes why Chennai deserves to be celebrated, as though the answer needs to be searched for.
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