Thanks for the nice words. you do remember our short visit to the Asian Civilisations Museum when you were here - its always a pleasure to be drawn into the charms of a chola bronze. The ACM has a friends of Museum group, which trains volunteers to act as Docents - take groups on tours on a volunteer basis and they had asked me to give a talk to the their core team - about bronzes. So we had an exciting 2 hour program for the Docents of the Singapore museum. As a fall out of the talk, they had asked me to write a short article for their magazine aimed at early readers and this was the result.
regards your question on interest in sculpture - credit to our great Kalki - interest in history was kindled, initially got into inscriptions but being away from India to filed work and not being ' formally' trained in this was a obstacle. Sculpture ofcourse was less taxing to get initiated and was blessed to be introduced to some doyens ( thanks again to your generous references) - realised how little i know of them and took on a task of reading all available material on them. It was then that i realised how little of their works are available online and even in libraries. It dawned that the knowledge of these greats might get confined to reference section of libraries and hence wanted to build a resource online to assist early readers like me to gain some insights. I was already writing about sculptures as a novice in another forum thanks to the prodding by our dear Dhivakar sir....and finally in the good hands of our Thiru - the site was born. http://www.poetryinstone.in and to date he maintains it for me ! best is i had never met him till about 2 years after the site went online and that too in our PSVP meet - before that it was all over emails. ! The poetryinstone team is small - Thiru ( tech side), Dhivakar sir - who provides valubale advise on verse referecnes etc and to date every single tamil post is proof read by him or parvatha or satheesh!), Satheesh, Arvind, Ashok, Shash, Shriram, kathie.
I will get in touch with Mr.Ravi. this week. Can i have his number also please. Also very proud to say after releasing PS and Parthiban Kanavu audio books now by gods grace i am almost there with Sivagamiyin Sabatham audio.