I was staring at an artwork hung from polished timber walls of the Bureau of Tourism Department. It was a fresco of a temple done in oil on wood. The canvas looked arresting. The sacred structure stood in all grandeur against an azure sky and green sea offered a fitting background. The entire scene was captivating, temple sculptures intricately set and the artist had finished his work with masterstrokes that evoked pure magic.
Tablets of memory frisked through the pages of Indian history. The cluster of temples looked familiar. Which Indian temple could this be? I pressed hard on the fringes of memory. The name, at last, came up in a hazy flashback. The shore temples of Mahabalipuram on the tassel of the 17th-century port city of the Pallavas, a dynasty that once ruled the Deccan.
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