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How a photo archive in Puducherry helps retrieve stolen idols

The French Institute of Pondicherry has over 1.7 lakh archived photographs of idols and temple art, recorded over a 60-year period since 1955, which has come to the help of police tracing missing or stolen idols in several Tamil Nadu temples.

N Vinoth Kumar
6 March 2020 6:59 AM IST  (Updated:2020-03-06 02:45:18)

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