1. Mrs. May’s silly slideshow to accompany the short story, ‘Interpreter of Maladies'

2. Home town to the Das family

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

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

5. Assansol is where the parents now live.

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

7. Another tea stall

8. A packet of puffed rice.

9. A better picture of puffed rice.

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

11. ’ The Sun Temple at Konarak (Konark) Carving of ‘entwined lovers’

12. Surya – The Sun God Mr. Kapasi’s favourite statue is of Surya

13. One of the horse carvings

14. More ‘erotic’ carvings

15. …and more

16. …and even more

17. Plaque at the temple

18. Naked lovers

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

20. Carvings in disrepair

21. One of the giant elephant statues surrounding the temple

22. Notice how intricate the carvings are…

23. Wheel

25. Giant carvings near entrance to temple

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

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

28. More ‘erotic’ carvings

30. Another Surya bronze statue

31. Elephant carvings

32. Hanuman Monkey

33. Another wheel carving

34. The Sun Temple from above

35. Is she smiling?

36. Another Surya statue

37. Rather impressive!

38. Hanuman monkeys. Where’s the puffed rice?

39. To give you a sense of India

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

41. A Pura Beach resort

42. Mr. Das’ tour guide

43. Another guide book!

44. Mrs. Das’ nail polish

45. Sorry, couldn’t resist

46. …and guess who’s bag?

47. 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!