by Dr. Madhav Prabhu In my view, the most innate reflex of us the common Belgaumites is to rejoice is to be happy and to share our blessing with others. Here we laugh aloud and express openly, things presumed to be poor manners in some quarters. We don’t need occasions to party and life itself […]
Specials
Har fikr ko ‘bubble’ me udata chala gaya
Covid cases were at their peak in Belagavi a few months ago and things were very scary out there. Never heard before words like lockdown, quarantine, isolation, curfew, positive, deaths, sanitization, etc were on everybody’s tongue. Many lost their loved ones and there also came a situation where people were not even able to see […]
Mishana Khot’s journey from a Belagavi girl to an accomplished author
Her book ‘Welcome to the Zoo’ will be available in India this week. It’s Mishana Khot’s third book, an adventurous journey of four scrappy kids and their mishaps, accompanied by a pint-sized mob of friends and pets set in 175 odd pages. They devise sinister plots to kidnap the Tooth Fairy, dress up as Egyptian […]
The unlikely billionaire’s Belagavi connection
by Swatee JogAt first sight, Nithin Kamath, CEO of Zerodha, India’s first online trading platform, looks like any other techie, clad in a black Tee and jeans and with a relaxed, holiday vibe in his gait (he’s had a pit stop in Belagavi on his way to Goa). As I meet him at his close […]
Re X-ploring Venugram
by Vijay Lingayat We always feel that Belagavi does not offer any places of historical value which are worth visit (as one visits the city of Vijapura/Mysuru), but in fact, there many places which have definite historical value. We often move around these places but never try to see and learn about their when/who constructed […]