Coimbatore

If I'm not mistaken, this was the very first fully sideways shot that we printed on the cover.

This was at the Curry Track in Coimbatore.

It was wet.

I've read, heard so much, driven so many Evos.

So this story, now there's a back story to this story.

The HM guys told us, yeah, you come to the curry track, we're going to bring the car.

Obviously we all landed up in Coimbatore.

This was in

I think I remember, I think...

March is when I finished my previous assignment for a client in Coimbatore, that is Tamil Nadu.

And then I returned home April, and then I think May is when I got this client.

And then, you know, the first few weeks, we're still figuring out.

He said the police should be friends to those who abide by the law and force to those who violate it.

He also informed the assembly that 36 people had been arrested in connection to the murder of a college student in Coimbatore.

DMK members protested over Vijay's allegations in the house by surrounding the speaker's podium and staging a sit-in protest.

Speaker J. C. D. Prabhakar initially declined to allow an immediate response, stating that the opposition had interrupted the Chief Minister.

She passed away very recently.

and again had such a gorgeous garden in Rajya Jain Nagar just full of fruits and tree leaves and plants and trees and every corner you know she had pots it was quite incredible with the garden my mother's younger sister lives in Coimbatore and again is so I mean these people we have a family whatsapp group and most of the time they're exchanging this okay I saw this plant today here's this photo here's this flower and then it goes into what's the botany of the flower and this thing came from here and you know i've seen this red version i have seen a white version this person has a blue version in this house oh i've never seen a blue version before can you show me a photograph it's very very nice in the days when whatsapp groups are otherwise i've caught off so many family whatsapp groups because there's too much you know too much religion too much

politics but this is completely different so it's a very interesting conversation

My mother, who's only one year younger than the aunt who got married during her 10th, did a BSc in botany, as I've written about.

My mother didn't even allow me to go for the interview because she said, if it's in Baroda and your father's leg is not all right, there's no way we can come and get you.

The whole...

It comes back to the thing of, you know, where are you allowed to go? So I was allowed to go to Coimbatore.

I was allowed to go to Pune.

How can you avoid anger?

See, if you're driving in the Coimbatore streets, if you're driving in the Coimbatore street, you have to avoid the medians which are placed in odd places.

You have to avoid bad drivers.

You have to avoid drunken men crossing the street, children crossing the street, all kinds of things.

But when you're driving in Coimbatore street, do you have to avoid the moon? I'm asking, do you have to avoid the moon? No.

Because the moon is not on the street, isn't it? So similarly, right now are you angry?

No?

So in very rare cases, let's say, I'm trying to think of option of houses which have a normal washing machine a battery can manage.

But if there are multiple washing machines, or if there are some kinds of specialized equipment, health equipment sometimes would not be advisable with batteries, but most houses will start in my opinion having batteries within the next couple of years because of this mismatch that you generate in a week what you can't consume in a month but you're still paying the grid and the grid has paid for a lot of its assets in the past so this mismatch will start getting resolved we are focusing on as in world seal at the commercial and industrial space where the owners or the operators really see the mismatch and they are responsible for the financial payback of the investment solar investment live example they are now saying i invested so much in solar but i'm not getting my payback can you help us do that so an example near Coimbatore where a garment factory has a solar plant and they're not even using 40 percent of that solar energy and so they've come to us and said can you help us figure out how to use this energy.

Now imagine they invested whatever x amount x crores of money in solar and they're only using 40 percent of that because of grid constraints or their own consumption it's a garment factory so the variations are fairly high and low.

How do you build that system up? So As soon as we have a battery, not only does the solar get used, the demand side optimization happens, the sanctioned load from the utility can be brought down.