In the attached PDF file, all the pictures show the truly magnificent temple-architectural wonders to be clear testimony to our country’s glorious heritage . But why in all these years after Indian independence hadn’t they caught — forget the world’s — but even the attention and imagination of our own millions of citizens in our country?
How many of us even know these fabulous structures existed and are worth visiting at least once in a lifetime as at least a tribute to be paid to our ancestral generations that created them ?
On the other hand, we all do know about, and have watched so avidly indeed, several Bollywood and Hollywood movies, of past and present, that that have only caricatured and mocked these ancient temples of India …. The Indiana Jones, series, the James Bond movies and our own Vittalaacharya B-Grade movies were perhaps the most egregious examples of how these ancient temple-structures of our land were projected to the whole world as some kind of garish, grotesque, ridiculous and antediluvian relics of pagan peoples and their pagan past.
It’s time to change the national course and discourse … It’s time for India to restore pride and self-respect back to these great monuments of India’s past. Each one of these ought to be a candidate indeed for world recognition as a UN World Heritage Site that deserves to be preserved and cherished on earth as long as mankind survives upon it.
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Sudarshan Madabushi