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Saints and Poets
Some kings built monuments. The Chera kings of Kerala wrote their promises on copper, and some of those promises have outlasted the kingdom by a thousand years.
Kings like to be remembered. Most of them try stone. They raise a pillar, or a fort, or a tomb, and hope the weather is kind.
The Chera kings of Kerala tried something else. They wrote their promises on sheets of copper. A thousand years later the kingdom is gone. The copper is still being read.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.