The sheer beauty of the circular panel still in its original frame, together with its exceptional state of preservation, placed it in the rarified category of works for which any price is conceivable as long as your budget allows it.
For added insurance, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization sought the blessings of Lord Vishnu, the Hindu god of preservation, placing a scale model of the launch vehicle, the PSLV-C25, at the idol's feet Monday at the lavish Tirumala shrine 80 miles from Chennai.
Some distinction, to put it gently: to cite for preservation a place of devastation consecrated to the potential end of everything.
And now it has been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places in collaboration with a New York preservation group, Place Matters, which is devoted to saving places that might not have striking architecture but that hold the spirit of a people, or some turning point in their history.
Most of these homes are so expensive to keep up, & incomes are limited, so they are either upened to the public or turned over to the National Trust for the Preservation of Places of Historic Interest or National Beauty, a private agency.
