Bhadravathi

We also support three orphanages, Kola Goldfields, Bangarapet, and Kanua Village.

And we have set up, built, and now support three health clinics in Kola Goldfields, Chennai, and Bhadravati.

This year we're extending our support in India to two leper colonies that Pastor Frank and Gladys go into faithfully each month.

We want to help these families with food support and also practical support.

So the econom-- the political elite of Mysore, diwans, the civil servants, the Maharaja, they're all attached to this vision of industrializing Mysore at a time when Mysore is almost mostly agrarian in terms of where its people live and what they're doing for a, for their livelihood.

So throughout their actions, when they try to build the Bhadravati iron plant, when they're trying to modernize agriculture through a Department of Agriculture that tries to make it scientific, et cetera, they are not only led by an interest in modernizing them, they want to demonstrate it.

They want visual evidence of what they're doing to be appreciated by all.

So there's a...

You just imagine yourself to be open to scrutiny by the world.

So, you know, you're getting photographs of Mysore published in, you know, publications in London.

You have a publicity office there, right? And you have ways, you know, state guests are taken to see the KRS dam, taken to see the Bhadravati iron plant.

Photos of these things are in all your tourist handbooks, official handbooks.