HYDERABAD: What is the connection between the ancient Badrinath and Kedarnath temples in Uttarakhand and Hyderabad? The answer is that the renovation of these temples was taken up with granite from Hyderabad.These and more interesting details are in a book named 'Sri CS Ramachandran , ICS' that is to be launched at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) on December 13 at 5.30 pm. The book is being brought out in connection with the 100th birth anniversary of CS Ramachandran, an ICS officer.The book has been written by his daughter Gayathri Ramachandran , a former IAS officer and director-general of EPTR. After his retirement, Ramachandran was chairman of the Badrinath and Kedarnath temples committee in the year 1977. For more than 10 years as chairman, he undertook the renovation of the ancient temples in collaboration with the Andhra Pradesh government's endowments department then.