temple in kottayam where lord krishna is given nivedyam at 2 am it is fun to travel with likeminded people our next trip will be to char dham yatra yamunotri gangotri kedarnath and badrinathand it is not just devotion that attracts her to the temples the architecture of our temples is amazing but it is sad that many of these structures lack maintenance and proper care where novels come alivefor lathika teacher her trips are also a means of making the descriptions she has read in books come alive she recalls a trip she made to kolkata in 2016 i saw the howrah bridge and the hooghly river for real for our generation bengal is a great feeling known through the beautiful novels of tagore and other greats when i saw the place for real and took a walk through howrah bridge those words and descriptions came back to me she addssimilar was mukundan k menons experience as many of his visits were influenced by the writings of s k pottekkatt during my visit to bali islands and the andaman nicobar a few years ago i revisited the chapters of his novels he says