PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

25 Wed 10.15 AM

Dhenupureeswarar Shiva Temple

Suyambu Lingam

Madambakkam Main Road

Madambakkam (Between Velachery &

Tambaram), Chennai 600 126 

Journey towards a Thousand Year Old Temple

The tour of the Madambakkam Shiva temple will look at this Chola era temple from the angle of history and how it can teach us about the Chola empire - their bureaucracy, water management and taxation strategies. It will explain how temples are structured to help us find peace and happiness in our relationships. All of us can have a shot at a traditional board game popular on the floors of many Chola temples in Chennai, and the enthusiastic can learn a Tamil verse on thetemples (transliterated in English script)!

Pradeep Chakravarthy, who is a Behaviourist, will conduct this temple tour. A student of The School, he studied at MCC, JNU and then LSE, he worked for many years in Infosys and McKinsey in the learning and development space. Now, with Devdutt Pattanaik and others, Pradeep has begun to look at how corporates can look at learning and development from Indian rather than western models, especially inspired by Indian history and philosophy.

Madambakkam is a village in between Velachery and Tambaram and the driving time is little over an hour. Continuing our endeavor to be kind to the environment, we request you to kindly carpool with other members.

Please warn in latest by 22nd Sept to help us make arrangements for lunch and share directions to the temple. Guests are welcome, charges will apply on actuals.

Warn in - Sheetal 9840027222 or Gowri 9884068888