Mridu in Madras – Vasantha Surya

Description

Odd things can happen on a trip along the coast from Chennai to the fabulous ancient port of Mahabalipuram. That is, if you’re with Mridu and her wacky cousins Ravi-Lalli-Meena and Apu-Mani (not to mention Goruchaka, who always turns up in the nick of time).

As they say in Tami, “Kadhaikku kaal undaa? Kai undaa?” (Does a story have legs? Does it have arms?)

When Vasantha Surya reaches back to ‘those days’, she discovers that all these things really did happen. Only, they happened to different children in different ways. And one of them was Goruchaka, who actually did exit…