I am on the road with a group of visiting students and we visited the Brihadeeshwara Temple in Thanjavur. This is the main temple in a complex of Chola temples in and around Thanjavur, designated as World Heritage Monuments. The designation has funded a great deal of restoration activity which is ongoing, but in the meanwhile, our own unique instinct for cultural conservation has led visitors to....
leave fragments of broken glass bangles in a courtyard where visitors are barefoot....
inscribe their hopes and aspirations on the wall to match Raja Raja Chola's...
litter food and bottle caps hither and yon...
If the great builders of India's past had known their progeny would be messy vandals, would they have bothered to build anything at all?
litter food and bottle caps hither and yon...
