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Tamil Nadu is the southeastern-most state (it's green here). You can see Mumbai (Bombay) is up on...

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Here you can see mom's city, Chennai, which is in northeastern Tamil Nadu. It used to be called...

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Chennai. Mom's house. When I asked Lakshmi (front, blue) if she would have any more children, she...

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Chennai. Inside mom's house. I am surrounded by mom's loving neighbors who visit her all the time...

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Chennai. Sadly, I didn't take any pictures in mom's home city, really. I think because it felt like...

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Kanchipuram. The last of the pictures of Kanchi, of this museum. I just thought these windows to the...

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Kanchipuram. Just a cute doorway into a room on the second floor. This was the room with all the old...

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Kanchipuram. View from top-top level of the museum-house, of saris hung out to dry on a neighboring roof. Yes. Saris are very long ...

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Kanchipuram. Steps leading from the roof level to a tiny floor at the tip-top of the mansion-house-museum.

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Kanchipuram. From the roof level of the house, this looks down at the rear of the school, attached....

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Kanchipuram. This room was once a nursery, and also a place where in old times, the women could sit...

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Kanchipuram. Why we (OK, me) didn't take a picture of the front of this 400 year-old house-museum is...

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Kanchipuram. We found the house-museum (which wasn't open yet) and left mom there in the shade while...

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Kanchipuram. This is the Ekambareswarar Temple, or sometimes called the "Mango Temple"...

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Kanchipuram. Dad took this beautiful photo of a swami outside his temple. Swastikas were abundant in...

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Kanchipuram. We took this picture because it reveals a woman deftly making a new Kolam outside her...

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Kanchipuram. A sharp contrast here ... (Notice the sign on top of the building across the street. India definitely is straddling two centuries ...)

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Kanchipuram. See previous comments about oxen.

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