Visit the famous Butterball at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Mahabalipuram, also called Mamallapuram in South India, and listen to stories of how it came to be - the history and more interestingly, the many associated myths. Why is it called Krishna's Butterball? How does this massive rock miraculously balance on a steep incline? What did the Pallava kings do with it?

Here's a story of one such monument that tells us about the evolution of scripts in these parts.