21 July 1997 | Main Guard Gate!
The Main Guard Gate is situated in the heart of Tiruchirappalli City!
I am told that it is also a protected site of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
The Main Guard Gate is a shopper’s paradise too! You can sure get for yourself something of everything once you successfully manage to cruise your way through the narrow, crowded alleys and the by-ways of Main Guard Gate.
The Main Guard Gate also provides an entrance to the beautiful Rock Fort Temple, that’s over 272 feet in height.
And from atop the Rock Fort Temple, you are assured of a panoramic, 360-degree view of the entire city, which includes a host of famous Colleges in and around the vicinity!
Hence, an outing to the Main Guard Gate also included – by default – a jaunt atop the Rock Fort Temple as well! 😍
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| a 1997 file photo of the four of us, atop the Rock Fort Temple! |
Back then, call it the heights of adrenaline rush if you may, 🙈 we used to get down to those pretty dangerous slopes of the Rock Fort, to try and get a snap for ourselves on those good ol' Kodak KB10 film cameras!
One small misstep! And hey presto! You are with St. Peter in heaven! 😄
Thankfully, those dangerous slopes have been cordoned off (barricaded) now!
Coming back -
Yes! we got almost all our College Texts at a few of the amazing Book Shops - in and around the famed Main Guard Gate - which included International Book House, Higginbothams, Palaniappa Brothers, New Century Book House, etc.
On this particular day, I bought Orwell’s Essays, E.M. Forster’s Essays, and a host of NCC paraphernalia, (for our NCC Parades) in the book shops in and around the vicinity of Main Guard Gate.
Coming back to the next diary entry,
Since a few of us had opted for French as part of our Part I requirements, we headed straight to the library during our Tamil classes.
Today we had a condolence meeting in the last hour to the memory of a II BSc student who passed away in a Bus mishap near Tirunelveli - a few days ago - on 18 July 1997. 🙏🏻
We also had a new inmate added to our room today! [Already we were three of us in our room]. (No.40) Now we warmly welcomed the fourth inmate to our home away from home! 🤗
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