Interested in rewriting projects particularly those pertaining to travel. I am giving below a sample. However, this is an original article.
SPEAKING STATUES
Their thoughts, acts and deeds outlive ages. However, the souls that incubated and hatched these have crossed the unknown gateway long before and would have celebrated several hundreds of anniversaries of their entry into either heaven or hell. No mundane activity or sedentary lifestyle was practiced in that fertile kingdom where these souls once lived. In farmlands, pearl pins and ear droppings made of gold and silver were thrown by lads and lasses casually to ward off the birds and animals like sparrows, parakeets, mynahs, squirrels and so on that came to eat out of their abundance. Peace, joy and happiness danced everywhere. Bringing day to day happenings alive on rocks which in turn becomes history is possible only when tranquility prevails in the land as well as among the people. The sea offered everything for their sustenance and happy living. The ocean graciously granted her gifts like sea food, corals, shells, conches, and made all those who approached her happy without partiality. Even a peasant lived a royal life. People stayed so focused that they could make statues speak. Any layman looking at the intricacies involved like the finger nails, flowers adorned and so on in the rock cuts would be prompted to go closer to it with this thought. “Am I standing close to something that has life?” It makes one wonder, “Can statues speak?” Sometimes a shiver goes down your spine unaware. Chiseling thoughts on rock and making it reality is a rare quality. You can witness and wonder at the work of many such unknown sculptors along the Kovalam beach. A look at this place would certainly reveal realities about the dexterity of craftsmen who lived during the reign of Pallava Kings. The rock-cut temples, five rathas and the awesome Vishnu temple situated at Mahabalipuram 72 kilometers from Chennai city in South India certainly deserves a visit by tourists for those unsung skilled sculptors who through their silence could make their work speak volumes.