Mrs. May’s silly slideshow to accompany the short story,

‘Interpreter of Maladies'

Home town to theDas family

Mr. Kapasi drives a white Ambassador just like this one! A very common car in India.

Spot Puri. This is the area in which the family are staying.

Assansol is where the parents now live.

A tea stall – except the man has a shirt on here!

Another tea stall

A packet of puffed rice.

A better picture of puffed rice.

‘Dallas’ – the TV show Mr. Kapasi uses as a reference point for American culture

’The Sun Temple at Konarak (Konark)

Carving of ‘entwined lovers’

Surya – The Sun GodMr. Kapasi’s favourite statue is of Surya

One of the horse carvings

More ‘erotic’ carvings

…and more

…and even more

Plaque atthe temple

Naked lovers

The American Museum of Natural History in Washington – Mr. Das takes his students on a tour here.

Carvings in disrepair

One of the giant elephant statues surrounding the temple

Notice how intricate the carvings are…

Wheel

Giant carvings near entrance to temple

Hmm…not sure what creature this is meant to be???

The giant wheel carvings – Mr. Kapasi tells the Das’ they represent ‘life’.

More ‘erotic’ carvings

Another Surya bronze statue

Elephant carvings

Hanuman Monkey

Another wheel carving

The Sun Temple from above

Is she smiling?

Another Surya statue

Rather impressive!

Hanuman monkeys. Where’s the puffed rice?

To give you a sense of India

Puri Beach – probably type of hotel at which the family are staying.

A Pura Beach resort

Mr. Das’ tour guide

Another guide book!

Mrs. Das’ nail polish

Sorry, couldn’t resist

…and guess who’s bag?

Apologies for some of the blurry pics.

I hope you can now better visualise the Konarak Sun

Temple. Go back and read the story

again now!