Under the watchful eyes of Meenakshi…

Its been three days since we touched down in Madurai as part of our traveling circus.
Paramount Airways is not bad at all. They could do something about the idlis though.
Much against earlier thoughts, put off plans for yet another quiz in Madras to stay put on the weekend and attend some meetings with the client. And then there is some long due business to attend to.

The 3 english newspapers in Madurai choose not to tell you about the movies on show. There are some ads for the Tamil movies which I would usually not watch anyways except for the annual Mani Ratnam quota. There are no Hindi movies right now. Its been a while since our 4 year romp in Trichy ended. Madurai brings back warm memories, quite literally. Its 32 deg C here.

Of course, we had an ally who had already enquired about where to run. There is a nice ground called Railway Training ground in an area called Arasaradi, which is not too far from the station. The auto drivers are no embarrassment to their brethren in Madras. The outer lap in the ground is about 600 m and there is an inner lap which must be the standard 400 m. People stare at my shorts, which are, well, a little bold, with the split sides like in any standard running shorts!

Today’s Mileage: 9 km. I ran about 6 km the day before, at the same ground, the day I landed. And today, ran in the rain for about an hour.

Yesterday being Friday, went and collected the standard goodwill from the resident deity Goddess Meenakshi who occupies a rather beautiful South Indian temple. And there is the Lord Sundareshwara to make sure you collect twice the blessings. And then there is a rather cute looking Ganesha outside the sanctum sanctorum in the temple. There are a large number of tourists here.

Watched 400 Blows by Truffaut, which is standard Truffaut. As the narrator/commentator, a film critic put it, Truffaut mastered the art of filming a scene which does nothing to further the story he is telling, but is just pure brilliant observation of some activity.

Am now trying to finish the two books - one by Kelman and another by Kiran Desai, the latter being on my list for an irritatingly long time now (perhaps she is not as good as I had hoped for).

And its not even Sunday yet. And we have had work, running, books and movies.
I don’t think there is any quizzing happening here yet!