Is this the monsoonal normal for them?

When boats from Nainarkuppam in ECR proved a lifeline for these OMR residents

This road winds off the IT Corridor in anonymity. It is so neatly tucked way from the bustle of the arterial road that it can be missed far too easily. Gandhinagar Main Road is part of what marks the last outpost of the Greater Chennai Corporation — the 200th ward that lies in Semmanchery — clinging on to its fringes. With Navalur nestling close by, it is often erroneously identified with that locality. Worse still — as this writer found out on November 19 while seeking directions — that its name is elusive even for those who take the road on a daily basis, while heading back back home in the interior sections that it leads to.

“It does not have a name,” a passer-by stated flatly with not a soupçon of doubt that he could have missed something.

The road seems less known, and the plight of residents of the two localities that it leads to — Jawahar Nagar and Ezhilmuga Nagar — lesser still. According to a GCC official with Zone 15, during the recent rains, Zone 15 employed the fishermen of Nainarkuppam with their paddle boats to help these residents reach dry ground whenever they had to.