Temples of South India

Ambujam Anantharman was born and brought up in Chennai's oldest settlement, Mylapore, where temples and traditions dominated day-to-day life. Childhood visits to temple after temple developed into a passion that resulted in a column on the subject for a popular website. Her training and experience as a journalist saw to it that she looked at all aspects-spiritual, devotional, historical, architectural and societal facets of individual temples. Ambujam is a gold medalist from Madras University in English literature and is a Jack Howard fellow in science reporting from the California Institute of Technology, USA. She is married to a railway officer and has two children. She has in a career spanning two decades, worked in the Press Trust of India (PTI) and The Hindu apart from websites and is currently with the United News of India.