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India’s landscape is threaded with temples — some famous and crowded, others quiet and almost invisible. The “forgotten” temples are not lesser in craft or spirit; they are simply less visible to the modern traveler. Often tucked into forests, carved into rock faces, or leaning gently beneath banya...

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