The humid afternoon air is heavy with blaring traffic and thick smoke of vehicles, as I approach the busy Town Hall Road junction. It's the week preceding Diwali and the number of festival shoppers on ...
It is mid-afternoon on a hot Sunday in Othakadai, a town in Narasingam Panchayat, barely 20 minutes away from Madurai. Here, there is no sign of the weekend lull at Patchi Raja Vilas as passengers ...