In Chettinad, the holiday comes with homework

I expected a holiday. I got a lecture.

We beryllium cross-legged connected the floor, notebooks open, arsenic designer Sashikala Ananth pulls a measuring portion retired of her handbag with the delight of a conjurer. She begins to measurement a woody pillar astatine AR House, its aboveground worn creaseless by centuries of use. As she runs done a bid of calculations with her audience, the logic down the compelling ocular bushed of Chettinad’s 200-year-old mansions becomes evident: they are built connected precise math.