“Hurry, you’ve got only 15 minutes. We’ll be closing by 5:30PM sharp.”, the security folks at the entrance of Chennakeshava temple were in a real hurry. Though it was very close to closing time quite a few visitors were just...
Tag: Heritage
Chandragiri: Less known hillock of Shravanabelagola
For most of the people visiting Shravanabelagola, their purpose of visit starts and stops at the huge monolithic statue of Lord Gommateshvara on top of Vindhyagiri (more commonly known as ‘Dodda betta‘). What most of them don’t know is that...
Small Wonders: Channakeshava Temple of Tandaga
There are so many things in life we see on a day to day basis and completely ignore it or goes unnoticed. You pass by them as if it doesn’t exist and notice only when someone points that out. That...
Kerebasadi of Varanga
The noise of the bus died down as it went ahead after dropping me at this small sleepy village, Varanga. I walked along the mud road which the bus conductor asked me to take, “Keep on walking till you reach...