A palace that resounds the simplicity of a home, a floor which doesnot reminscise of carpet  but of a common stone, the courtyard, the verandahs, the rooms fill themselves of the sunlight, lit by the mood of the nature and the evenings are humbled by simple elegant lamps, but never of the aristrocratic chandelier… where the darkness of the space is celebrated because light is understood for the presence of dark and not vice-versa and the “royals” exists because there are commons, but what touches me the most here is that the royals are cultured as commons… Such is the simplicity of Padmnabhapuram