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Mosque with a sun dial in Pulicat

How a Small Mosque in Pulicat Told Its Town the Time, Using Only the Sun

A town needs to agree on the time before it can pray together, trade together or do anything together. Before wristwatches and wall clocks and phones, the agreement came from the sky. In Pulicat, on the Coromandel coast north of … Read More

Light house of Pulicat

The Lighthouse at Pulicat Was Built to Keep Ships Away

Most lighthouses exist to bring ships in. The one at Pulicat, on the Coromandel coast north of Chennai, was raised to do the opposite. It stands over a shallow lagoon and a quiet town of fishing families, and its job … Read More

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