“Thoonilum Irrupaar, Thurumbilum Irrupaar” – “He is in a formidable pillar, and he is in a speck of rust”…proclaims Hiranyakashipu’s son Prahlada in answer to his raging dad’s rhetorical question on Vishnu’s omnipresence. When the confounded Hiranyakashipu smashes the pillar with his mace, the lion-head, human-bodied, hyper-avatar of Narasimha (think the exact opposite of the [...]
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August 3, 2008
Malibu Hindu Temple – A celestial union of bad detailing and poor maintenance
0609_MalibuT_Wires, originally uploaded by purpleganesh.
Couldn’t help not being appalled by the overload of terrible detailing, structural failures and poor maintenance. I have two favorites – the doorway to cultural cultural hall embellished by trash dump and the plastic spoon stuck in between the crack…Whoever did that, what was he/she thinking?
