The energy and stillness in his personality is a queer contrast you experience when you meet Dr. Aditya Sahu. He is on a stopover at Belagavi on his run from Mumbai to Coimbatore to raise funds for Isha Vidhya, the educational arm of Isha Foundation covering a distance of 1230 kms on road. Aditya Sahu’s […]
Why Belagavi loves its chutneys
Food in Belagavi is incomplete without its chutneys. Unlike elsewhere in the country with its staple red and green wet chutneys, Belagavi loves all kinds of chutneys, more so the dry ones. Being rich in coconuts, groundnuts, vegetables, and other grams, it becomes easy to concoct numerous recipes that tingle your taste buds. It’s Sankranti […]
Maverick artist Shirish Deshpande releases book on ballpoint art
Artists have been known to challenge the status quo all over the world. That’s how we’ve evolved as an intelligent species, perhaps. Take Shirish Deshpande, for example. When a ballpoint pen is looked upon only as a writing tool, he made it his fascination to create stunning paintings. When the world got frustrated with the […]
Priyanka Nilajkar- Belagavi’s role model
This petite little girl is Priyanka Nilajkar. She has stood 53rd in Karnataka DCET for lateral entry into engineering college after completing her Diploma in Computer Science, after standing first to Bharatesh Polytechnic with 93% marks. She scored 98% in her 10th std. from D. Y. Chougule Bharatesh high school three years ago. What makes […]
This Diwali is like nothing before
On a call today with a client from USA, originally from Belagavi. Aren’t you coming to India, I asked. He said he hadn’t been here for Diwali in 20 years. Oh! How much I felt for him. He said he gets everything he needs for Diwali, including boxes of Faraal. I told him Belagavi Diwali […]