Valluvar Kottam Monument
Granite temple-chariot memorial to a Tamil poet, with all his couplets carved in a vast hall.
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This guide to Valluvar Kottam in Chennai starts at one granite wheel and follows it back to the temple town of Thiruvarur, where devotees still haul a god through the streets on enormous ropes. It turns on the poet Thiruvalluvar, the chief minister who wanted him honoured in stone in the nineteen seventies, and the question of what a sacred chariot becomes when its passenger changes. Best heard standing beside one of the wheels.
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