ShanaYogi

Day 0: Leaving Chennai to reach Srisailam. Our train was at 10 30pm in Tambaram. I left home at 7 35 and picked Surya on the way. I had asked to him keep my bike during my absence. Collected my towel from Praveen anna hours in Pallikaranai and the next stop was Fortitude fitness studio, Medavakkam. I wanted to visit this gym since this new year--the day they opened this gym. 2 reasons to do that: one, it is founded by my beloved senior, sister Anusha ka(more on her inspirational story later on a separate post.); Two, I wanted to give her The Running Soul book that I have been telling her for like 8 months now. Finally I found the time to do both. Me and Surya were​ amazed by features of the Gym, then like always it was fun talking with her until I realised it was getting late for the train. We then found a very nice  sandwich shop under the Tambaram bridge--MCC side--which will see us again more often. Then as Surya bid me good bye in the station, Shubha called to inform that she

10th May'17. Shri Appandainathar Digambar Jain Temple Thirunarunkundram, Nannaram Post, Ulundurpet Taluk, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India. I know this place since my childhood, ever since I could remember being brought up in my native, a village 7 kms from the above place. I could see this elegant temple from the terrace and backyard of our house, but never visited it. V iew from our terrace taken in 21/04/2008. Forgot to take a recent pic, hence digged my hard drive to find this taken with my old N73 phone.   When I finally gathered momentum to start this blog and as the time matched with the famous Koovagam festival, it became the obvious first blog post choice. I did attend the main few hours of the festival but I could not spend the time I would like to--thanks to the thunderstorms and powercut. So I decided to visit this place and make use of the time; which I did not know will become by first post then. FunFact #1: I was told by my grandfather that there existed