Temple and Sport

TN Travel- Top Spin

This was another game i grew up with. It was played with such fervour in the 1970s
- on weekends, school vacations. It looks like this has almost disappeared now ,
except in a few tier 2 towns.

This photograph(1) taken on board the Madurai-Podanur passenger shows the
kid in the red shirt tying the thread around top and the photograph 2
shows the 'Top Spin"
( not to be confused with cricket leg spinners' top spin)

One of my favourites is spinning the top right into the palm of the hand
without allowing it to hit the ground...

A lesser challenge is to spin the Top on the ground and then try and take it
on to your palm

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posted by PRabhu S @ 5:10 pm 2 comments

Travel in TN-Meter Gauge trains

With gauge conversion(meter gauge to broad gauge) taking place at a rapid pace, there are only a few sections in TN which have still not come under the microscope....One such is the Madurai-Coimbatore(now Podanur) section

attached is a photograph of a meter gauge train moving towards Madurai from Dindigul- those who have not travelled meter gauge could find this completely uncomfortable-smaller compartments, smaller sized seats/berths, slower speed ( the one on the right is the broad gauge line)

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posted by PRabhu S @ 5:00 pm 0 comments

Travel in TN-Rickshaw stays

A pix that brings old memories - CycleRickshaws/Entyce
The Rickshaw man fighting it out for survival


Cycle Rickshaws used to be a oft used mode of transport in the 1970s in Madras

One that stays distinct in my memory is a late night cycle rickshaw trip after watching
Nizhal Nijamaagiradhu from a city theatre to the Egmore Station

And the school uniform in most of my early school years were from entyce,
which forms the background to this pix

In the last two decades customers have not taken a liking to either of these
with few exceptions like this one on West Chitrai Street Madurai

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posted by PRabhu S @ 4:50 pm 0 comments