What is ahead
Kona is finished. These two are not. Both get their own site when there is something to run on one — a card to write, a scene to watch — and until then they are told here, as concepts, not projects.
Kona is finished. This is the one still ahead of me.
One crore people, each writing the name of Rama and the name of Shiva by hand, a hundred and eight times each, on a card. Every card written is enshrined inside the building, so the temple is founded on what a crore people wrote rather than on a rite performed once.
It inverts the Rama Koti, which asks one person for a crore names, and asks a crore people for one card each instead. It rests on shivakeshavulu okkate — Shiva and Vishnu are one — and the murti carries that through.
I have written the card to somewhere around its tenth version, A4 cut into four A6, and the Telugu on the back is still a working draft. There is a mood bible, a structure document with a spiral floor plan, and the first screen of the site designed and prototyped. There is no printed card, no collected card, no land, no building and no date. The distribution network exists on paper. I am the only person on it.
Print one card. Not ten thousand — one.
Everything after the card.
There is no building and no land. Nothing on this page is a plan I have funding for.
- The card, at around its tenth version. A4 cut into four A6.
- A mood bible.
- A structure document, with a spiral floor plan.
- The first screen of the site, designed and prototyped.
- A printed card.
- A collected card.
- Any land, any building, any date.
- A distribution network with anyone but me on it.
- A trust. Registration triggers at ten thousand cards.
Read one card of Telugu and tell me whether it is written or only translated. It unblocks printing any card, and everything after it.
tvsdhanan009@gmail.com →No card has been printed and no trust has been registered. Until both exist there is nothing to ask for and nothing that could be received, so nothing on this page asks for money.
The Puranas as animation, so you can understand them by watching instead of reading.
I have wanted to do this since 2017, in my B.Tech, and I set it down because animation costs money and I had none. The thought came back this year, when image and video tools made it possible for one person.
Eighteen Puranas, the Bhagavad Gita, everything around them. Films tell the version that works as a story, and I do not blame them for it: a film is an investment and it has to earn the money back. This does not have to earn anything, so it can stay with what the sources actually say. Not films. What one person can make, from the sources themselves, for the generation that would otherwise meet these stories secondhand or not at all.
It began as the teaching layer of the temple and is now its own project, connected to it and separate from it. I have not finished anything yet.
One scene, finished, from the sources rather than from a film.
All of it. There is no finished scene.
I wanted this in 2017 and did nothing about it for nine years. That gap is the most honest thing on this page.
