In this audio-visual talk, Dr Chithra takes the audience on a virtual tour to some of the most glorious ancient temples of Badami, Kanchipuram, Srirangam, Hampi and others explaining the archaeological significance, their heritage, their culture and giving minute detailing of the magnificently carved sculptures in the temples.

Dr Chithra Madhavan has an M.A. and an M.Phil. in Indian History and a Ph.D. in Ancient History and Archaeology. She is the recipient of two Post-Doctoral Fellowships. Chithra has published nine books - History and Culture of Tamil Nadu (in two volumes), Vishnu Temples of South India (in five volumes), Sanskrit Education and Literature in Ancient and Medieval Tamil Nadu – An Epigraphical Study and Temples of Kanchipuram. She has written the text for a coffee-table book Snapshots Of A Bygone Era- A Century of Images which contains about a hundred photographs of monuments of India. She has also co-edited a book South India Heritage which contains five hundred articles on various aspects of South India’s heritage and culture and has edited a book Kalakshetra-Sculpture which contains twenty articles on iconography by well-known authors on this subject. Chithra has also compiled books on the Srirangam temple and the Varadaraja Perumal temple, Kanchipuram. She regularly conducts heritage tours to places of historical and archaeological significance in India and abroad.

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