The story
His career is climbing. The temple is dying.
Vembu Srinivasan measures his life in billable hours. Then his grandfather's dying wish sends the Manhattan lawyer to Palayur, an ancestral village he barely remembers. He finds a ghost town and a temple crumbling into ruin. Only the idol of Venkatachalapathy stands untouched by time.
An elder, Dasarathi Dasan, draws him into the temple's revival, and into a history far older than he bargained for.
What if this idol had been carried out of Srirangam through fire, by people who held it dearer than their own lives?
