Ancestral village visit - Thaliapatti

 Got a chance to visit my ancestral village Thaliapatti and it was quite different from what I had imagined it to be. This place was pretty much like lore to me having only heard stories about it. Given my great grandparents had to move out of the place in search of a better life I'd imagined it to be barren and stuck in the 18th century.  

Damn, I found modern well-built houses with trees and fairly new well-maintained temples. And the place too was only a couple of kilometers from the state highway unlike how I imagined it to be in a godforsaken place inaccessible until miles away from the main road. 

Starkly different from my imaginary characterization of the place in my self-created fable.