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Like many other people, I have family there and there is no doubt about it, this is one of the worst disasters to hit Chennai. We will have to wait out the stor

Like many other people, I have family there and there is no doubt about it, this is one of the worst disasters to hit Chennai. We will have to wait out the storm to see the cumulative damage, but most of my family and friends are reporting Venezuela-like conditions of empty store shelves and lack of mobile and internet networks. In such a condition, I don't think The Hindu had a chance. On a more positive note, here is how startups are helping: http://yourstory.com/2015/12/startups-rally-help-chennai/ http://yourstory.com/2015/12/startups-rally-help-chennai/

jeswin 11y ago
>but most of my family and friends are reporting Venezuela-like conditions of empty store shelves and lack of mobile and internet networks What is a Venezuela-like condition? Never heard such a phrasing before. Also, don't agree with negative associations to a country/people in a wholly unrelated discussion.
- kshatrea 11y ago
  I can only apologize - I presume I heard it somewhere and internalized it. Not like I am making fun of Venezuela, at least not intentionally.
  - late2part 11y ago
    You're making an analogy (simile/metaphor?) based on a supportable fact. Folks can argue about the veracity of your fact, but it's extremely supportable: https://www.google.com/search?q=venezuela+condition&oq=venezuela+condition https://www.google.com/search?q=venezuela+condition&oq=venez... Don't give in to the politically correct folks. Support and back up your opinions, and don't shrink from asserting facts. Next thing you know, people will say we should outlaw words like antediluvian.
- martincmartin 11y ago
  THE queue is perhaps a thousand people long. It snakes around the dusty, rubbish-strewn back lot of a giant supermarket in the heart of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. ... “I came here for milk,” says a young mother from El Valle, a working-class district a few kilometres to the south-west. “In El Valle, there’s nothing.” She is carrying a tiny baby, while her four-year-old daughter helps with the modest purchases she has managed to make. Today the Bicentenario has sugar, maize flour, chicken and toilet paper at giveaway, government-controlled prices—but no milk. It is 9.30am and customers who began queuing at six o’clock are just emerging. Hundreds more wait outside a narrow gate in the 3-metre-high railings around the lot. Uniformed police keep order; most customers seem resigned rather than belligerent. http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21640395-government-offers-no-solutions-mounting-economic-crisis-empty-shelves-and-rhetoric http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21640395-government-o...
- mc32 11y ago
  That's being extremely sensitive. It's like an American complaining at "a Katrina-like response to the disaster." Or soviet-like queues. It's not complimentary of course, but it's also not untrue. Moreover, many, if not most Venezuelans would complain about the market conditions there themselves.

jeswin 11y ago

>but most of my family and friends are reporting Venezuela-like conditions of empty store shelves and lack of mobile and internet networks What is a Venezuela-like condition? Never heard such a phrasing before. Also, don't agree with negative associations to a country/people in a wholly unrelated discussion.

kshatrea 11y ago
I can only apologize - I presume I heard it somewhere and internalized it. Not like I am making fun of Venezuela, at least not intentionally.
- late2part 11y ago
  You're making an analogy (simile/metaphor?) based on a supportable fact. Folks can argue about the veracity of your fact, but it's extremely supportable: https://www.google.com/search?q=venezuela+condition&oq=venezuela+condition https://www.google.com/search?q=venezuela+condition&oq=venez... Don't give in to the politically correct folks. Support and back up your opinions, and don't shrink from asserting facts. Next thing you know, people will say we should outlaw words like antediluvian.
martincmartin 11y ago
THE queue is perhaps a thousand people long. It snakes around the dusty, rubbish-strewn back lot of a giant supermarket in the heart of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. ... “I came here for milk,” says a young mother from El Valle, a working-class district a few kilometres to the south-west. “In El Valle, there’s nothing.” She is carrying a tiny baby, while her four-year-old daughter helps with the modest purchases she has managed to make. Today the Bicentenario has sugar, maize flour, chicken and toilet paper at giveaway, government-controlled prices—but no milk. It is 9.30am and customers who began queuing at six o’clock are just emerging. Hundreds more wait outside a narrow gate in the 3-metre-high railings around the lot. Uniformed police keep order; most customers seem resigned rather than belligerent. http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21640395-government-offers-no-solutions-mounting-economic-crisis-empty-shelves-and-rhetoric http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21640395-government-o...
mc32 11y ago
That's being extremely sensitive. It's like an American complaining at "a Katrina-like response to the disaster." Or soviet-like queues. It's not complimentary of course, but it's also not untrue. Moreover, many, if not most Venezuelans would complain about the market conditions there themselves.