The Forgotten Chettiars…

But the red dust and eerie silence is quietly watched over by some of the largest, most beautiful, stately mansions one has ever seen. They fill this village, and all the others in the region, reminiscent of a bygone era, when the rich and enterprising Chettiar community, financiers of the royals, lived like kings.

Tamil Nadu, And so it Begins!

The first leg of our South India journey will take us down the eastern coast of India and through the temple state of Tamil Nadu. Over the next couple of weeks we will traverse a 1000+ Kms into the heart of Dravidian cultural history and walk the path of the glorious Southern Empires of yore….