An intellectually-engaging type of humanism runs by Western literature, and it’s a type that pulls off the inconceivable with elan: Reconciling nihilism with hope. It portrays people as being positioned an unequal enjoying subject in opposition to nature.
Whereas they can’t decisively rein within the forces of nature which might act up usually and upset their best-laid plans, they might justifiably pat themselves on their backs in the event that they put up a spirited battle and barely managed the scenario. Ernest Hemingway’s Outdated Man And The Sea slots neatly into this mould.
The exercise log-book of Higher Chennai Company — as additionally these of different authorities businesses — can hardly be equated with the aptitude of literary humanism, nevertheless it talks about the identical previous challenge, in less-romantic phrases and hard-nosed numbers.
The frilly stormwater drain work was basically an effort to rein in nature, and naturally, additionally undo the consequences of ill-advised development-related choices. And right here is one other instance, additionally associated to the season.
On the morning of December 24, a diminutive Bobcat JCB and a mid-sized load-carrying lorry have been transferring in tandem on Marina Loop Highway, having been tasked with a massively accountable security train.
Below the gimlet eye of a Higher Chennai Company supervisor, the drivers of the autos have been forging forward, stopping by mounds of soppy sea sands that had piled up alongside the carriageway.
The security of motorcyclists is incumbent on how commonly these sands are cleared. The sands had piled up on one aspect of the carriageway, the vertical half that’s cheek by jowl with the seashore.
The reader could recall the post-Mandous report in these pages that highlighted by pictures and textual content how sections of Marina Loop Highway have been caked with sea sands, each side of the carriageway being affected noticeably.
In distinction, the present accumulation is restricted to only one aspect, simply the median serving as an efficient bastion in opposition to the wind, and stopping additional dispersal of sea sands.
The GCC supervisor notes that in this month — he was clearly referring to Margazhi (mid-December to mid-January) — ground-scraping low-level wind (tharai kaathu in Tamil) blowing inland from the ocean is frequent, and that explains why the sands didn’t make it to the carriageway on the opposite aspect of the median.
He additional reveals that each 4 days, an elaborate train to clear the collected sea sands from the highway, in toto, is carried out.
