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the Hoysalas: brigand chiefs who became kings

December 27, 2009

In my last post I told you that all the public walls of Bangalore are painted over with scenes of ruins of our historical monuments, and larger-than-hoarding depictions of our beasts and birds and beaches. I am sitting in the Cafe Coffee Day by the highway at Hirisave, a hundred and ten kilometers west of [...]

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this foggy clear December

December 21, 2009

This December, as in every December, I approach Electronics City seeing the sun through the fog, and mistake it for a morning moon—I see it so absently. I wonder that the moon is so large, and after a while I realize there is no rabbit on it, and so it is the sun in its [...]

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the Bhagawan’s eyes

November 29, 2009

Every introduction to Bangalore speaks of the four towers of Kempegowda that marked the corners of the capital he founded four-hundred years ago. But these small things are not towers—not in the way the Jin Mao or the Sears or the Qutb Minar are towers. Kempegowda’s Towers are small gopuras, tiny things built on dome-shaped [...]

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relief at last

June 13, 2008

The clouds are dark and heavy and promising, but they aren’t downing rain yet. They have brought on a chill that Duke and Raja are comfortable in. The two wear European coats in this tropical place, and they can’t take them off. How much hotter for them, the summer that went!

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A red week in January

January 21, 2007

Image via Wikipedia They flew red hammer n’ sickle pennants on every vertical object in every major street last week. The pennants are there even now, wilting. They also painted the walls in many colors, some of them after the fashion of some European graffiti I’ve seen (thick tubular letters on collage backgrounds), proclaiming the [...]