How Venkayya etched his place in history
It was a warm noon in December 1886 when Dr Eugen Hultzsch, the acclaimed German Indologist and later epigraphist to the Madras government, decided to visit the Mamallapuram group of monuments. Fascinated by the rich edifices that the chisels and sharp eyes of the Pallava craftsman had created, Hultzsch was walking around the five rathas campus. Little did he realise that destiny was waiting to introduce him to a person who would eventually turn out to be his intellectual companion. On the same day, Valaiyathur S Venkayya, a sharp 22-year-old gentleman well versed in many languages, had tra...
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