The Courtyard, featuring a superb sculpture of Surya

The Entrance and Exit Porch to the Courtyard is supported with old teakwood pillars from Kerala. Tribal figures in iron, from Tamil Nadu, flank the entrance. A stone sculpture of Surya, a fine replica from the north-face of the Konarak Temple, finely carved by the great sthapati, Raghunath Mahapatra (Padma Vibhushan), is placed below the Kusum tree. An antique Kerala urli, filled with floating marigold flowers, is flanked by a pair of massive Ottoman candle-stands from Istanbul.