What a Pallava
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/saturdaysection/story/0,,1450041,00.html
The discovery of remains from a submerged ancient city has sparked
renewed interest in the Pallava dynasty temples of Tamil Nadu. William
Dalrymple goes on pilgrimage
Saturday April 2, 2005
The Guardian
They were a family of Brahmins from Hyderabad - or Cyberabad as they
liked to call it - and they were all computer programmers. They talked
proudly of the booming hi-tech industry which had sprung up in their
city: of the outsourcing deals they were negotiating with US companies,
of the programming contracts they had just closed with a group in
Houston, and of the "healthcare software solutions" they were
finalising with the NHS. None of this, however, had in the least bit
altered their desire to do darshan - to glimpse the Gods - in all the
most ancient Shiva temples of Tamil Nadu.
William Dalrymple
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Pallavas
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Tamil Nadu
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