What are you listening to? [7]

- sharp as nails..

07 Dec 2018: A massive 300-tonne monolithic stone statue of Vishwaroopa Mahavishnu - partly sculpted-measuring 64ft in length, is on its way to Bengaluru on a 240-tyre trailer, to be installed in the premises of the Kothandaramaswamy Temple,located in congested Ejipura
From Korakottai Village in Tamilnadu to Ejipura in Bangalore

On 21 Dec 2018 while returning to Bangalore from my village in Tamilnadu, we encountered this statue at the historic fort-town Gingee . Luckily it was halted in the right lane and the left lane was free for us to pass.(The archeology department had refused permission for the trailer to move through the Fort's Gateway even after the width of the statue was cut by one foot there. ) The trailer was re-routed to its next destination. The scene we encountered at Gingee in BBC News:



(En-route, the highway department refused permission to move over the many bridges and the temple authorities laid mud-roads on the river beds and pulled the statue with multiple pullers)



25/26 May 2019: Enters into Karnataka



29/30 May 2019: The statue reaches its final destination - the Ejipura Temple.( It may take another 2-3 years to finish sculpting and install it.)



I had been watchiing its movement on a daily basis but left it off in the middle for it was halted enroute for two or three months due to various logistic problems.

And hey! tom is my 73rd birthday and I may visit the temple provided there is no thunderstorm which Bangalore has been experiencing since the last few days.

- ace screens..