Is your child struggling to speak? There’s a temple in Telangana where devotees believe the cure lies in learning to write. At the Gnana Saraswati Temple in Basara, parents of speech-delayed children come with just one prayer — that their child begins to speak. And many say their child’s first words came soon after visiting this shrine. The ritual here is called Aksharabhyasam — where the child writes their first letters in rice, and the parent softly whispers the child’s name before the goddess