VISALAM - MADURAI - GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI

 GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI 

'Visalam' is a small street side Cafe in Madurai where you can have the best kaapi that can be had at a predawn hour.

T.Sadasivam, MS Subbulakshmi's husband had once told Gopalkrishna Gandhi,                          "If there is one place where you can get steaming, soft idlis and fresh hot kaapi even at 4 in the morning, it is Madurai."

Excerpts from Kumbakonam Via London, With Stopover in Madurai                                    in The New Sunday Express of 23.08.2026 by Gopalkrishna Gandhi