Rahul Nandan / Seethalakshmi S.
Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In temple towns, devotees bow before sacred idols, admiring their beauty yet rarely wonderingabout the hands that shaped them. This book turns to the man behind one such image: thesculptor of the mesmerizing Ram Lalla idol at Ayodhya’s Ram Janmabhoomi Temple.While the long history of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement has been widely told, the story of thesmiling black idol of five-year-old Lord Ram, consecrated on 22 January 2024, has remained in thebackground. Through months of intimate conversations, master sculptor Arun Yogiraj recounts thenine demanding months of creation, marked by doubt, discipline, faith and moments he describesas divine. The book also revisits some of his earlier works, including the Adi Shankaracharya statue at Kedarnath and the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose statue at India Gate, tracing the journey of an artist entrusted with shaping the icons of a nation. This is the story of devotion carved in stone, and of the quiet, exacting life of the man chosen togive form to Ram Lalla.
