Searching for India: Villages and Deities around Madurai
February 2nd 2019 There’s India. And then there’s India.
I went on a quest. To find the real India. Whatever that is.
In Madurai I met an auto rickshaw driver, Anand, who enjoys taking foreigners around. So we were off—early mornings and evenings.
“I’m done with the big temples. I want to see the temples and shrines of folk deities, Ayannar and Karuppana Swami, the small places, the common places. Vill
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