Suresh IT professional, Natarajan - mfg consultant, Kannan - our travel driver, Chandra -its me, Dr.Satyamurthy - archaeologist founder of REACH, Balaji - refrigeration consultant and LV Krishnan -retired scientist of atomic energy - all REACH members at Chidambaram temple
The man in center on the right of Dr.Satyamurthy is Mr.Sridaran retired from State Archeology, recently joined REACH
Inscriptions on the floor :(
Scaling of wall (flaking of wall we may say, which chops of inscribed stones from the wall, this is due to weathering effect. Prevention is by applying some transparent curative on it using PU or silicone based lacquers.
Flaking at its worst
Siva Siva written on and above the ancient inscriptions
Water flowing out falls on the inscriptions thus spoiling them
West tower of Chidambaram
Man carrying milk to the deities
Bootha Gana playing similar drums simultaneously. Remember 'Adadha Manamum Undo' song enacted by MGR/ Padmini, sung by the great ML Vasanthakumari? Seems this gave MGR the idea for the song. Tabla instead of Jalatharangam
This looks like suryanarayana murthi with seven horses and his charioteer aruna without thighs and flanked by his consorts Sandhya and Chaya and having four faces and ashtabahus. Look at the surya prabha behind his head. Suryanarayana is one of the panchayathana murthis in shiva temples others being Shiva, Devi, Ganapathi and Vishnu
REACH symposium banner
Founder lighting the lamp at the start of the function
L to R : Akshaya hotel MD Aruneswaran, Sundar Bharadwaj, Dr.Satyamurty, H Chandrasekaran, Kudavoil Balasubramaniam
Satyamurty addressing the gathering
Natarajan explaining the do's and dont's in temple renovation
Sridaran adding expert commentaries on Natarajan's slide show
Kudavoil talking on water management during Chola era
J Chandrasekaran presenting the slide show, "Modern techniques to save heritage"
Dr Rajavelu presenting his paper
Sundar Bharadwaj addressing the audience
Momentos moments...
Aruneswaran delivering vote of thanks
The man behind the cleaning group at Chidambaram. He is an engineer working in Chennai and travelling all the way to Chidambaram during week ends to do temple cleaning. Such folk we need MORE!
H Chandrasekaran addressing the gathering
Inscriptions at Perumathur temple
Crowning glory (?) of Perumathur??
Side view..
Rajendra inscriptions made as main pillars of the tower by some GREAT restorer :(
Tree which is tried to be removed by chemical killer
Leading the way
Entrance of the tower
Big Andal sculpture never seen anywhere else as this! Nayak beauty!
Signage on the wall.. what does it say?
Cleaning going on..live demo after the function at Perumathur
