Sad to see this temple priest's plight. It is near my village in the Kumbakonam area. We will contact him and arrange for regular support.
I am also going to appeal to people who left all these villages: we abandoned our ancestral villages and abandoned our temples. Prosperity alone will not make us happy. We have to do our duty to our ancestral land and our kula devatas and grama devatas.
Our culture and spirituality have always emphasized simple living and high thinking - contentment at the core. That survived thousands of years but risks being swept away in the tsuami of modernity.
It is time for us to rethink, at least those of us with the means.๐