This morning, Arun dropped in to the Siddhi Vinayaka temple on MG Road. The priest tells him he was there for the Manakkula Laksharchanai yesterday. The Vinayaka at this temple is said to be 350 years old, while the plethora of prakara shrines around it have come up later. These include: Murugan, Vishnu, Vaidyanatha Sivalinga, a Nataraja hall, Ayyappan, Hayagriva and some other little ones. The ambience is very cosy. The temple celebrates “all events for all the gods”, says the priest – which is a huge undertaking to say the least. The bull vahana was still out in the corridor from yesterday’s Pradosham ul-purappadu.