The Frugal God's temple.

Manicauvu Shiva temple in Wayanad is not very far from our erstwhile home. Legend is that the Lord wishes the temple construction has to be completed in a single day if it ever happens, for reasons I can't recall. The devotees being simple folks of limited means, has to be content with a simple contsruct like this. (The temple was said to be surrounded by a hectors of thick forest, before I could remember - now all there is the remnants of the forest surrounded by mostly bare hillocks. Deforested, because of the monkey threat to crops. The remaining small population of monkeys looks pitiable.)



( What, India's soul? )