A fresh political row erupted in Tamil Nadu after a replica of the temple Gopuram was placed atop former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s memorial at Marina Beach in Chennai. The BJP accused the ...

It was during the same period that the ‘Raja Gopuram’ (the 120 feet tower at the entrance) was built. It collapsed in May 2010 but was rebuilt in its original form on the same spot and ...

The motifs in Korvai — rows of triangles — borrow inspiration from the gopuram, the monumental and ornate domes of temples in South India. The resulting confluence of contrasts, colours, and motifs ...