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Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part IX (27th August 2002)
All your life, you just wait and wait, to be mashed to partial death and dimensional restructure in the mouth of a thick-tongued bovine specimen. And when finally you, as a partially dead straw, think it is all over and you have reached your afterlife, the bullock chews the cud and you realize it is, after all, a mid-death crisis...

Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part VIII (20th August 2002)
One of these purses invariably carries lots of coins and some 1 and 2 rupee notes, folded beyond possible differentiation so that, when taken out later, they come out either as 12 or 21 rupee notes...

Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part VII (13th August 2002)
They are the hatchet men because they normally carry a long hatchet, hidden in their back. This is their identity card, which you get to see before dying, especially if you are one among the extra-characters in the earlier part of the movie...

Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part VI (6th August 2002)
Clutching a Murphy three-band transistor radio (one of them is a rubber band holding the radio together) and believing the news from it, my parents along with the house owners, sat on the stairs...

Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part V (30th July 2002)
You read The Hindu and not The Express - they are extremists. You probably were in the crowd watching the famous cricket match in the 1960s, between Srirangam and Tanjore 'A' Team...

Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part IV (23rd July 2002)
A time much before my father learnt his first big BASIC program from me (ascending/descending sort) and soon after started making piles of money. Out of shame, I became a Mechanical Engineer and in the process spent most of those piles of money...

Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part III (18th June 2002)
Opposite the main auto-stand (which is beside the bhel-puri shop), is the Srirangam Main Bus-stand. Other minor bus-stands are all along the roads, wherever you get two buses to stop one after the other...

Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part II (11th June 2002)
The 'starting' begins. It first involves a series of jerks with the starting lever, the vibration from which spreads over the entire auto-rickshaw with the passenger (shake well before use?)...

Of Srirangam and Steam Engine Locomotives - Part I (4th June 2002)
During the Sri Ranga Matriculation school days, I usually would be seated in between the Rexene-clad 'big' seat and the wooden 'baby' seat, on the aluminum clad floor, with legs dangling out of the contraption, traveling sideways...