The Bombay Chamber Orchestra

Shrouded in secrecy, the Freemasons are one of the oldest secret fraternities in the world. Started almost 800 years ago in Scotland (some say, England), the closed society has been active in India too. It is based on the medieval stonemason guilds that built castles and cathedrals in Europe. Modern Freemasons use the tools, traditions and terminology of those stonemasons as allegories for building temples in the hearts of men. Many non-Freemasons know of the organisation through fiction author Dan Brown, who wrote of their rituals and beliefs vividly in his books.