When Prem and Mohan slept at the Marina Beach

After finishing our five years course in Trichy Law college, some of our friends came to Chennai for practising in High court in 1993. Lakshman, Sankar, Bala, Prem, Mohan Kumar were the few who came to Chennai from Trichy and other surrounding areas. All of us initially stayed in some relatives place or friends room.

We had our enrolment on Sep 10th 1993 and a group photo was also taken on the same day in a studio near Madras High court. (You can see this photo in our website...)

It was the first few days since we had come to Chennai. Prem and myself went to our senior Thirumagal's house in Royapettah on an evening; we had a long discussion (those days discussions were only long, never short) and had our dinner there. After coming out of their house, some how we decided to see an English film in a theatre near their house; It was a good theatre "Woodlands" and a very average English film; we saw the night show and came out of the theatre by 12.30 in the mid night. We realized then that there were no night services and we don’t have sufficient money to travel to our respective places by auto. So we walked towards beach (about 3 Kilo metres from the theatre) and decided to sleep in the lawns of the beach.

As it was September, it was very cold. While walking towards beach, Prem said, " We can get up in the morning and catch a bus to our places; you can see lot of VIP's walking in the beach tomorrow morning".. I was excited on hearing this statement!! Seeing VIP's whom we have seen on film or TV directly!! Ha!! What a great thing!!

We struggled to sleep in the open lawn on a cold night; however somehow slept for few hours in the Marina beach….

We got up early next day and walked towards the bus stand. To my surprise, I could not see any VIP's; only very few ordinary people were walking on the beach road; I scolded Prem for cheating me that we can see some VIP's next day….

Nowadays when we go to the beach, I smile on seeing the place where Prem and myself slept about 15 years ago…………