brilliance consumed by barbarism
We'd been to Warangal in AP, India last summer. Only when we reached there, did i realize the treasure trove that our motherland truly is. Lying in ruins in front of our eyes, were the reconstructed remains of a once flourished dynasty of kings, under whose patronage was spawned a variety of hair rising architectural concepts. Displayed here is a picture of a beautiful sculpture of an elephant giving birth to a calf and the bull helping it when its in labour. And we're talking about this detail not in a huge piece of rock, but in something that was barely 2.5 feet by 1.25 feet. In the pic, it is seen that the two elephants are standing back to back, separated by a pillar. The way the elephants are using the pillar for support is well thought of. The bull and the mother are pulling the pillar in opposite directions (towards each other) so that the mother exerts the force needed to deliver the calf by pulling the pillar, held in place by the bull. Whether the bull is using anot