Few countries in the world celebrate a festival with as much fervor across the country as Holi is in India. And to make things special, Belagavi is one city which celebrates it not once but twice, in a matter of a week. Belagavi’s Holi is special mainly because of its geographic demarcation. While ‘Belagavi’ celebrates […]
Cool Cool Belgavkars
People from the metro cities are always admired and lauded for being resilient because the city bounces back after any calamity. But we Belgavkars are nothing less, you see. It’s just that the world media hasn’t taken notice of our resilience. I sometimes wonder if our genetic structure and brains must be deeply studied. We’re […]
Dr. Aditya Sahu in Belagavi – running from Mumbai to Coimbatore to raise funds for Isha Vidhya
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 […]