Computers slowed business, customers disappeared, but Srinivasan, a pen repairman who has worked beside the east gate of Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai for 55 years, still shows up at his spot twice a day and has no intention of stopping.
Every morning at ten, he arrives near Naveen Bakery, close to the temple's east gate, and stays until one in the afternoon. He returns at five and works until eight at night. He has done this for more than five decades.
