I am an architect, educated in India, and yet my formal training never once meaningfully addressed the design and construction logic of temples. We studied modernism, materials, housing typologies, global precedents — but the architectural system that shaped the landscape I grew up in was treated as background scenery. I wandered through temples for years, drawn to their spaces without having language for what I was experiencing. I loved their proportions, their darkness, the

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