Here’s little bit about me.

My name is Dr Viswanathan Periaswamy. I am clinical pathologist and work as a professor of pathology in a reputed medical college in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.

My interests are visiting various temples and researching about them. Also I have a special interest in Chola period temples and their architecture.

I started out cultivating photography as a hobby. Had started out as a nature photographer (some of the photographs which I will upload on this site in separate link later) when my parents (Prof T. V. Periaswamy and Mrs  Meenakshi to whom I owe my heartfelt thanks and  gratitude) gave me a camera when I was very young.

But then, later I began to be interested in temple photography and here are some of the photographs that I had shot of a few South Indian temples.

Although I would love to cover more temples, I am unable to do so because I work full time as the Head of Pathology Department.

But whenever I get some time, I try to find temples which are unheard-of and do an in-depth research before visiting them.

Not all temples yield such good inscriptions, sculptures and photographs eventually.  Many are just ordinary ones or modern ones with no history whatever – there are so many that I would have visited and they have yielded nothing much of interest.

But I also came across some gems that lay undiscovered. They may not be that famous or well-known and not chronicled or archived at all. But to me, each of these unsung temples  are rich in culture and have an innate beauty and inherent grace and untold stories in stone which are not seem by many.

Here is my small effort to bring to light these untold events through my photographs and detail them like the way I compile a detailed report on pathological arrangement of cells.

Incidentally, I am also interested in martial arts and hence the postures , bodily aspects and demeanours of sculptors catch my eye. Being a Black Belt in karate enables me to see some postures of warriors of olden times that could be missed by a general visitor.

Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking them.