Saviours of Indian art are not always Indian. One such good Samaritan is Piero D’Angelico, a hairdresser of Italian origin, who has a salon on Mill Road in Cambridge.
Last week, D’Angelico saw builders busy at work, demolishing the old library, which until recently, was home to the Bharat Bhavan temple, the only place of worship in Cambridge for its 5000-odd Hindus. He was shaken.
He remembered helping his grandfather, a stonemason, and sculptor, to restore derelict churches. To his horror, d’Angelico learned that the intricately carved pillars made with pink Rajasthani sandstone around the temple’s altar would be destroyed during the building’s renovation by Cambridgeshire County Council. “When I saw these carved columns I knew that thousands of hours of craftsmanship had gone into creating them,” he told Cambridge Independent, the oldest newspaper of the area.
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Travelling to watch insects in their natural surroundings has given rise to the phenomenon entomotourism. (Photo | Thrillophilia.com)
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Swing right from Solan town in Himachal Pradesh and take the temperamentally winding road to Dakpathar near the Asan barrage. You will come across a cluster of dhabas that sell chicken curry, delectable enough to make any city chef turn green. There is a break in the road, and a narrow crooked path steeply tumbles down from the ridge where the eateries are, down a broken elevation that debouches on a flat stretch of land nurtured by the Yamuna.