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Ravi yells, don't go too far into the water- it's deep and the stones are slippery! At the top of the steps he is looking through the viewfinder of the video camera. He works in Pamban at a hydroelectric project and was sent to help me because I don’t know Tamil, the language spoken on this island off the coast, and Ravi, who grew up in Andhra Pradesh, knows both Tamil and Telegu. I stop two steps from the edge and place my glasses on a dry patch of stone. The first step is green, from algae, and slides under my foot. I steady myself. The mandapam at the center of the tank bears the eroding couplets of the Thirukural above the water.
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