Foot Bridges As Keys To Some Village Futures

There were emotional scenes on the day the bridges opened. “I was at an extraordinary moment,” says Bharadwaj. “A middle aged housewife embarrassed me no end: she wordlessly fell at my feet, in thanks and looked up with her eyes full of tears.” He had not quite realised how much a bridge can mean.

The Stand Of the Last Pagan

I have long wanted to visit the grand temple at Chidambaram as much as I had longed to go on a tour with Dr Chitra Madhavan. If the temple is…

Time travel in Kerala

A born-again Hindu’s experience of Guru Purnima at the Chinmaya Vishwa-Vidyapeeth The lush green woods of Kerala are indeed there on either side of the road I am driving on,…