Whispers from the beautiful past..

The temples in South India have always intrigued me. The inclination towards temple visits started with a close observation of the temple architecture in 2012/2013 alongside the main deity. My fascination towards temples grew after a number of visits to few temples across various parts of Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is rightly called the ‘ Land of Temples’ with thousands of temples of various Tamil dynasties adding to the beauty of the land. And a trip down south takes us down the memory lane of the great Pallava, Chola, Pandya rulers who have built the magnificent stone structures, brick temples and cave temples across Tamil Nadu that have stood the test of time and survived thousands of years. If stones could talk, the carvings of the great living temple of Tamil Nadu would reveal the secrets of the ancestral past. As we admire the Tamil kings for their creativity, architecture, urban planning, administration and their practices, their farsightedness to inscribe valuable informati...