PILGRIMS FROM SOUTH INDIA
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Three south Indians are currently on a cultural tour of India which is almost in the nature of a pilgrimage.
The three pilgrims began their tour by offering prayers at the Ratna Vinayanagar temple in Coimbatore on march 5th. During their 8000 mile car journey, which will take them from Cape comorin to the Himalayas. Their main interest will be temple architecture. Wherever they can find audiences, they will discourse on the Ramayana and the Gita.
While in Bombay last, Mr. T. M. Bhaskara Tondaiman, the leader of the team, gave a talk under the auspices of the Tamil sangam and the architecture of the Pallava, the Chola and the Naik periods, illustrating it with fifty photographs which he is carrying with him.
Tondaiman, a retired District collector of Tirunelveli, has through the years acquired the reputation of being a connoisseur of South Indian sculptures and also as one of Tamilnad’s finest interpreters of the Ramayana.
He had brought out four books on South Indian Sculptures com
prising his writings in the Kalki, a Tamil daily. His two companions
on the cultural tour are Mr. N. Giridhari Prasad and Mr. K. R. Radhakrishnan, both from Coimbatore.
Gita Discourses
- Prasad, who hails from Ayodhya, has settled down in Coimbatore where he is in great demand for his discourses on the
