Choosing a Temple Architect

A close friend called me recently with an unusual dilemma. His family trust had acquired a quiet plot near Nashik

If you have ever stood before the reconstructed Somnath Temple on the windswept coast of Gujarat, you might have noticed

A few winters ago, I stood outside the Sun Temple at Modhera, watching early morning sunlight hit the carved sabhamandapa.

If you have ever stood beneath the towering shikhara of an ancient stone temple, you know that quiet, spine-tingling sensation.

A few winters ago, while sitting in the quiet courtyard of a freshly consecrated stone temple in Gujarat, I found

If you have ever walked barefoot across the cool sandstone courtyard of a temple at dawn, you know that quiet,

If you have ever stepped inside an ancient stone temple at dawn, you know that quiet, magnetic pull in the

A few months ago, while sitting outside a small tea stall in Patan, I found myself staring at a fragment

Have you ever walked into a centuries-old stone temple on a sweltering afternoon and noticed how the air immediately turns

Have you ever stood barefoot inside a temple courtyard at dawn, feeling the chill of carved sandstone beneath your feet,