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Mahabalipuram 02-24-07
Apparently neither of these were ever meant to be living temples. One to tell is that Nandy is at the back door, instead of at the front, as he should be so he can carry the god away as soon as needed.
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Mahabalipuram 02-24-07
Granite Butterball, carved in about the 8th century.
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Chennai, 2-23-07, Central Business District.
Motorola is building a big plant on the outskirts of town; Hyundai and Ford already have facilities churning out both cars and car parts. When my Dell hard drive died recently, I was on the phone a lot with Dell's experts in Chennai sorting things out.
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Chennai, Feb 20 2007
India's vitality, and traffic is utterly amazing.
Reader Rick was quite right when he said that people here were still calling Mumbai, Bombay, but his knowledge of India seems a little rusty when he suggested it would be consistently still called Bombay. Confusion is always preferable to consistency. Tomorrow I vist a city called Mamallapuram, which is the same as Mahabalipuram, or Mahabilapuram. Of course Mallappuram is hundreds of miles away.
