Holding a street fest challenges you - the civic conditions make you go crazy.
Imagine our team's plight this year - at every corner a civic contractor who was supposed to lay wide pavements and relay the mada streets has dumped and abandoned ( for now ) hundreds of these stones - they make for garbage dumps for people with no civic sense.
We are now employing civic workers to clean up the two main Festival venues.
At street corners are dusty autos and mini vans which were sunk in the city floods - dumped like waste. We have top clear them too.
And as local resident V P Narasimhan keeps complaining - the nook off the chariot shed is a open air urinal - who is to clean up? We do for the Fest. Its a hard job.
And yet, we love Sannidhi Street Square - outside the eastern temple gopuram. Great space for open-air recitals of any kind - folk, classical, dance, music . .
It is a chaotic parking lot. Wish we can create a better space here.
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