Rural Education and Conservation of Heritage, popularly known as REACH Foundation , is planning to conserve more than 200 mural paintings, which are 400 years old, in the Kalakkad Shiva Temple . The 13th century Kalakkad Temple is located in Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu. The murals on the inner walls of each of the nine tiers of the temple’s gopuram (tower) resemble those of the Vijayanagara and Nayaka School of the 16th and 7th century A.D. The paintings here are in a dilapidated condition due to neglect. The 185-foot tall gopuram will also be renovated and the 1500 odd stucco figures on the outside will also be mended. T.S. Subramanian writes in The Hindu T. Satyamurthy, the former Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and one of the founders of the REACH Foundation, called the murals at the Kalakkad temple ‘an amazing art gallery in each floor for the common man to see and relish the puranic themes in animation.’ They depi