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| One of many variations on this theme |
Roll over, Dr Alex Comfort! What a good job that Calcutta university vice-chancellor (see Friday) didn't live in the 13th century! He would have been horrified by such excesses of nongrami "frozen in luxuriant detail for posterity". It makes a stark contrast to the very buttoned-up attitudes in modern Indian society towards such matters.
I wonder what today's family visitors to Konark make of it? Or are they using it as a sort of visual aid for their kids, sanitized by an 800 year time gap? For once, I'm too discreet to ask.
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| Konark's sculptors favoured a hands-on approach |
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| Strong arms & a good sense of balance required |
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| A trifle exaggerated, one assumes |
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