When Vinita Sidhartha visits temples, she’s busy scanning the floors and corridors.
One might find that odd, but that doesn’t stop her from scouring every stone and slab there is.
What she’s looking for are grids, circles, patterns—anything that gives her a clue to the games people played ages ago.
“Traditionally, people played games on floors.
They were etched on cement in homes, on thinnais (verandah), and temple floors too… So, migrant people were building a temple for 5 or 10 years, living in a place.
