Before exchanging our "Super Splendor" bike for new one, I wanted to have a long drive with my friend. So, we started out in an afternoon, and the idea was to go on the GST road upto Perungalathur. It was a pleasure to drive my drive, especially with my friend behind. The Perungalathur area has changed a lot. I had come to this place twice earlier, for a happy joy ride. Once when my sister got a baby, when my friend's sister got a baby. On both the occations, my extreme happiness made me to take my bike that was parked in my office parking lot, and to go on for a long ride. I came upto Perungalathur, and bought sweets in a sweet shop near the Perungalathur bus stand, and distributed them in office, on both the occasions. There were only a few shops in that place in those days.
But in our today's trip, I found lots and lots of shops, the area has grown big and posh. After crossing the Perungalathur area, took a U-turn and turned back. On the way back home, my friend wanted to visit the "Book Fair" that was put up near the Tambaram Railway station. She had noticed the Book Fair during the on journey. It was a small book fair, including old and new books. Most of the old books were available at half the price.
I thought my friend will just browse the books and select one or two for purchasing. But she went on to check book after book, and almost saw all of the books present there. Finally we selected 3 tamil novels.
They were -
1. Vellai Nirathil or Poonai (By Lakshmi)
2. Idaiveligal Thodarkindrana (By Vaasanthi) and
3. Soorya Vervai (By Melanmai Ponnusamy).
We also took Mom's advice over phone for selecting the books. We also decided to have another trip with our little friends on Saturday. On Saturday we all went in our car, and reached the venue around 2:45 PM. We were there almost till 4:30 PM, and we selected a lot of books, including tamil novels, english novels and books for kids. Again this time, we were constantly consulting Amma for her inputs to select books of Tamil authors. We all had a happy time there and we all were busy selecting books. Kids were running up and down, selecting various books for them.
Below is the list of books we purchased on that day.
1. Puzzle Train
2. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
3. The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
4. Detective Stories - Sherlock Holmes
5. Vikramaditya's Throne - A collection of 32 Moral Stories (For my little friends cousin sister)
6. Brave Little Train
7. Fire Engine Flynn
8. Might Mac
9. Jokes & Riddles
10. The Sleeping Beauty
11. Prayachitham - La Sa Ramamirtham
12. Vanitha - Lakshmi
13. Vaani - Ramanichandran
14. Pavalamalli - Lakshmi
15. Kadasi Vari - Vaasanthi
16. En Veedu - Lakshmi
17. Thulasi - La Sa Ramairtham
18. Manjal Veyil Maalai Nee - Kaanchana Jeyathilagar
19. Porkasu Thottam - Indira Soundararajan
20. Andharangam Alarugirathu - Rajendra Kumar
21. Kathoram Oru Kavithai - Anuradha Ramanan
22. Nadhasura Osaiyile - Ramanichandran
23. Thulli Varuguthu Vel - Indira Soundararajan
24. Nesam Marakavillai Nenjam - Ramanichanran
25. Azhagana Kathaigal - Anoothama
- SPGR.
28-Feb-2021.
