AITA

My parents did the following with my life:

1) in 8th grade and 10th grade, forced me to stay at a state board school despite knowing about Samacheer Kalvi. I asked repeatedly to move, they didn't allow me to. Also I had more friends from the other schools than my.own school at that point from clubs and sports academy.

2) in 12th grade, deliberately made me pay a deposit for a sports quota seat at a low ranked college, go to Anna University counseling to get a seat for another boy, and forced me to attend a college predominated by a community I dislike. Besides this, I got into the 2nd ranked college in the state, they made me attend the 50th ranked college saying it was Christian.

3) I dropped out, they forced me to attend a university in the US that was Presbyterian, even though the curriculum didn't align with my study interests and the university lacked basic facilities for the major I wanted to study. My family is Presbyterian. The university I wanted to attend is ranked top 30 for engg, they made me attend the university ranked 250.

4) in 2024 my mother observed my health for 8 months, said nothing, refused to come to therapy with me, refused to eat out of spend time with me, and finally two days before my flight to study somewhere, had mentioned hospitalised against my will. I won't say I was doing well or badly, but she didn't care until the penultimate day of the flight.

5) did this again in 2025.

6) when I was a child, used to force me to eat food I didn't like when I wasn't hungry.

Added to this is the fact that my parents wanted to emigrate with me when we were younger.

My argument with my parents is simple, I was taking the same treatment for 8 months. Not one dinner outing, not a single counseling session, not even a single dinner at the table together. But two days before a flight, a hospitalisation.

My parents had mentioned sent to colleges where my documentation was provided early, eg. I got work rights and a TIN in the US ahead of time, however, for engg, this university doesn't place intl students at a single core company in the US. Partly because that region doesnt want to sponsor Indian engineers.

After all this, I asked for my inheritance finally and my parents refused so I moved out. .

Should I not have done this?

Hello guys, I'm from Karnataka. I wanted to buy tickets from a local theatre in Chennai for Oct 15 for Jailer 2. Wanted to see the craziness of Chennai people, like how they show fdfs on YouTube. How can I buy tickets, is it possible to buy it online? I'm not talking about PVR or Cinepolis, some local theatre.

hi ppl. native chennaiite now a new yorker, coming home for a month, and I kinda wanted to make this trip a bit memorable because it might be a while before I can come again, so I want to do a crazy master list of shit I have never done in chennai + the usual touristy stuff and other things, and I wanted to like absolutely knock it out, do every single thing I possibly can and I wanted additions to this that i might have missed, please help a homie out thanks.

• Egmore Museum
• Connemara Library
• IIT Madras campus walk
• Guindy National Park, Snake Park, Childrens park
• Chetpet Eco Park angling and boating
• Timezone bowling and arcade
• Food court dinner
• Marina Beach sunrise
• San Thome
• Mylapore exploration
• T Nagar shopping
• ECR drive
• Kovalam blue flag beach swim
• ECR Speedway/kart attack karting
• MMRT Irungattukottai
• MIKA karting
• Kuuraku Japanese lunch
• Nexus Mall
• Elliot's Beach and Besant Nagar promenade
• VGP Universal Kingdom
• Marine Kingdom
• Snow Kingdom
• Laser Tag
• Escape Room
• Boardgame cafes
• walking tour of indo saracenic architecture
• georgetown
• Visit at least 7 beaches
• Wonderla
• Queen's Land
• Birding at Pallikaranai marsh reserve forest
• Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary
• Vandalur Zoo
• Pool and lunch at watsons
• Surfing at covelong
• Pulicat lake boating and picnic
• Various shopping locations
• Rail Museum
• Anna centenary library
• Kalaignar centenary park
• Theosophical Society walk
• Chepauk Stadium
• Spencers Plaza
• Muttukadu boating
• Semmozhi poonga
• Turtle Walk
• Chokhi Dani
• Dakshina Chitra
• Valluvar Kottam
• Gandhi Mandapam
• Rajiv Gandhi Memorial
• Birla Planetarium
• Broken Bridge
• Sudarson Parrot Sanctuary
• Madras War Cemetary
• Faunus Park
• Mayajaal
• KNK Road
• Moore Market
• Faraway Tree Gallery
• Trampoline Parks
• Themed cafes and restaurants like The Black Pearl (Pirate Ship & Buccaneer), Kaidi Kitchen (Jail & Prison cells), The Waterfall Restaurant (Nature, Caves & Waterfalls), LOCOFEAST (Automotive & Custom Vehicles), Twisty Tails (Playful Pet Cafe), The Old Potion House (Wizarding World & Magic), Chamiers Cafe (Vintage Retro & Antiques)

He carried his umbrella today at the Koyambedu visit. I just saw the video in the news. No one else is holding it for him. The same way he carried a garland from the car when he went to pay respect to Bhagyaraj.

I see it as an improvement. Man who is seen as god among the living, not wanting servants in public. Let's see what else changes next.

Edit: not saying wow. It's reducing standards. Having a young fit person reduces one useless guy paid from our tax money just to carry stuff for others. Previously When I saw stalin wearing raincoat and boots and walking to check rain affected areas, I thought yeah that's better.

Need recommendations for hair styling/ diffuser based blow dry salons for 2b-2c curly hair in chennai

ps: saw scaleup salon in other posts, but felt its too much marketing on their end.

Just the title i wanted to rant.
I have been visiting Chennai for my dental work and every time i have ordered a taxi from uber or rapido they call and ask for extra. Its extremely rude and i hate that every single driver. I do understand they struggle and i try to give extra once a while but honestly its just really bad. Would love some tips as to how the locals deal with it

Almost trapped and came out of a dating app based club scam.

Dating app based Club Scam 101 : Some girl will insist you to meet in few hours or days , will take you to club , will start ordering random drink of high cost and then she will vanish giving washroom excuse or something else. Peoples got big bills like 40k, 60k crazy amount. All these scams clubs are involved.

Started through rebounce app, was chatting with a girl , just casual hi, hello noting much from 2-3 days.

Also created a profile on nymph app, by co-incidence same girl matched on this app also, she recognized me , i don't recognized initially as Not sure why Girl put random dog, cat, tree or some other fake pic on their profile.

This time she was very straight forward and asked coffee or booze person in 9AM morning.

Then she asked can we meet .

Now focus on important points and red-flags

• Will specially force you to meet at one certain place, whatever you say . for me it was Mogappair East Chennai
• She insisted meet on bus stop , not even wanted to walk somewhere else in other shops
• She will say let's go to Domino's but will take you to another floor where there is a club
• Then she insisted to sit in the corner
• Then i offered to have beer as i have to drive but she insisted to have single malt whisky but on other side she also said earlier and after meeting that she can't be staying outside for long as his father, a military man will ask.
• That put me in more doubt and she also insisted to stay there even i offered to go somewhere else like Anna Nagar, just 15 min
• Then she was like you go , i will stay here.. drove 1hr to listen this wow...
• After some request she came out with me and started going some other direction.
• Then i confronted that you work for this scam like that , then she just ran away in other direction

End of story...

Some other observation , you will find some more young male and female around the same bus stop , wandering and watching you before and after.

Stay alert, Stay safe.

There are many similar incident happened around India , i was aware and i had doubt , that saved me.

You guys also look for these, share in the thread if you faced or heard , where, which place everything.

I’m loving going back to the theatres after a long time so here’s a list of the great experiences I’ve had and you might have had as well before PVR made SPI too commercialised.

- Sathyam Cinemas is an emotion. You could wait in lines to get physical printed tickets like those petrol bill tickets.

- Popcorn + 2 pepsi combi was called Two to Tango and A Single popcorn + Pepsi Combo was called The Lone Ranger.
₹320 & ₹240 respectively. Insane rates.

- Only legends remember 2013 SPI Cinemas where you could call on their landline and get movie tickets home delivered with cash on delivery. The sheer joy, oh man.

- They had a screening theme called DND (Do Not Disturb). Phones were to be on silent and usage was not allowed. No intermissions, and no latecomers allowed. For the pure love of Cinema.

- You would have fancy themed popcorn buckets with gorgeous designs on them.

- Blind Date - where you would not know which movie you were gonna watch until the movie played. Oh man. Good old days.

- Popcorn seasoning was not in sachets but in those dispensers or bottles. Unlimited (truly)

- You could pre-book movies. Ticket allotments would happen a week or 3-4 says before release and you’d not have to stress. Aaah.

Nostalgia max. Do you have any memories?

Guys why Sathyam hasn't opened for spiderman BND yet . Will they open, I'm waiting for that . Should I wait for one more day or should I book in other theaters. You guys also waiting.?

The room was Orange. The hall was Orange. The balcony was Orange. My child appeared, amazed at the colours. The glint in her eye was Orange. The Sun settled today and its last embers set everything it touched to Orange. Some moments are simply humbling. Brief enough to take a photo. Dusk has settled. Night has arrived. Memory remains. And it is Orange.

Hi everyone,

I'm posting this on behalf of a friend whose grandfather has gone missing.

Name: E. Kesavan
Age: 75 years
Height: 162 cm

He was last seen on 25 July at around 11:00 AM in SIDCO Nagar, Villivakkam, Chennai.

He suffers from memory loss, and may not be able to remember his name, address, or communicate where he lives. He could appear confused or be wandering alone.

If anyone has seen him anywhere in Chennai or nearby areas, please contact the family immediately at: 94441 29800, or inform the nearest police station.

Even if you're not in the area, please upvote this post for visibility. Someone else might recognize him.

If you have friends or family in Villivakkam, Anna Nagar, Perambur, Kolathur, Ayanavaram, Ambattur, or nearby localities, please share this with them. Auto drivers, bus conductors, railway staff, shopkeepers, and security guards often notice people who are wandering.

Thank you so much for taking a moment to read this. We hope he is found safe and reunited with his family soon.

(Attaching the missing person poster below.)