The stately wooden stairs in Loyola College’s main block used to reverberate to the sound of pounding shoes in the mornings.
The same set of woodwork was the base for Kajol and her pals to dance their hearts out in that iconic hit ‘Poopookum osai adhei ketkathan aasai’ from Minsara Kanavu.
This was the early 1990s when Internet and mobile phones were yet to surface. Latecomers would run up those stairs after getting an admit slip from the dean’s office below and only then would professors allow the time-violators into class. During some rare occasions, a gawky lad used to join, sprinting towards his B.Sc. Visual Communication lessons, on the sylvan campus of the college bang in the heart of Madras.
