Off the Kochi National Highway in the heartland of Kerala, just before the bypass to the industrial town of Aluva, a road quietly forks south. It’s easy to miss—lined with the usual clutter of shops, unhurried and unmarked—but follow it long enough and it leads to Ulliyanoor, a small island cradled by the bends of […]
There are monuments and then there is the Kailasa temple. Imagine standing before a mountain of solid basalt in the eighth century and deciding not to build a temple on it, but to carve the entire mountain into one. Not from the ground upward, but from the top down. It sounds impossible. Yet that impossible […]
Two Eagles and their search for Salvation. It would sound like a story from the world of magical realism. But this is not one out of a fertile imagination; it is an event witnessed and recorded by many. Now, before I start with the story, I need you, the reader, to understand and be suitably […]
Deep within the river-sculpted heart of Tamil Nadu, where the Cauvery and Kollidam embrace to form the sacred island of Srirangam, the air is thick with more than just incense—it is heavy with the echoes of ancient rivalries and divine destinies. While the sprawling majesty of the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple often commands the world’s gaze, […]
An interesting story from the Himalayas… India is a land steeped in mysticism, where belief isn’t just a concept but an unapologetically lived reality. Long before modern ideologies took shape, the people of this ancient civilization revered nature as the supreme power. Even today, that deep-rooted connection to the natural world endures. To an outsider, […]
It is a chilly morning towards the end of December, when the otherwise hot and dry weather in Tamil Nadu becomes bearable. I am in Thanjavur to see the Brihadeeshwara Temple. I have done the smart thing; I slept early and woke up much before the winter sun was contemplating showing up and reached the […]