#Karnataka

We (@mahambare_vidya @DhanarajSowmya ) recently concluded our 4-article series with @ThePrintIndia. Using data spanning 2 decades, this novel series highlights important labor market variations across regions and demographics which have
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In the village of Neelagunda near the city of Harapanhallii in the Bellary district of Karnataka lies a small temple of Bheemeshwar. The journey to this temple is rather interesting.
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Vedic significance of Makara SankrantiThis day also has a reference in the Hindu epic of Mahabharata, according to which Bhishma had declared his intention to leave his body today. He
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If my memory serves me right, quite sometime ago, when Savio, (@PrinceArihan ), after visiting Kashmir , began writing about the new terrorism - after Shaheen Bagh he was emphatic
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How many of us have heard of Onake Obavva? She was neither a queen nor a princess, but the wife of a common guard at Chitradurga Fort. She fought the
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#GoodMorningEveryone #JaiHind #JaiHindKiSena #IStandWithGDBakshi TheĀ Marikamba TempleĀ is located inĀ Sagar City,in Shivamoga Karnataka state India. Goddess Ā Marikamba,is a form ofĀ DurgaĀ orĀ Parvati. The temple was built in the center o
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THREAD : Why did 5,000+ people protest in Goa against coal on Sunday night? #GoyantkollsoNaka #AmcheMollem #SaveMollem By blocking of the railway tracks from midnight on Sunday to the early
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If the government is proposing to suspend the farm laws for 18-24 months, for whatever reason, rest assured the Shaheen Bagh fellows are going to crawl out of their ratholes
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I will share one piece from my Coastal Karnataka series everyday and I urge those from the region to share this. I am open to engaging and discussing about this
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Mahadev Temple - Tambdi Surla, GoaMahadeva Temple, Tambdi Surla is a 12th-century Shaivite temple dedicated to Lord Shiva and an active place of Hindu worship. It is the only structural
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Today is the birth anniversary of #TipuSultanThere were only two kings that the British feared the most.1) Tipu Sultan2) Ranjit SinghTipu Sultan & Ranjit Singh did far more than any
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Shut up!Ancient Indians used Gunpowder long BEFORE Mughal invaders were even BORN.Ancient Indians used Saltpetre (Agnichurna), the major constituent of gunpowder, to make firecrackers (ulkah) on Diwali. "Gunpowder originated in
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Some 1300 years ago in Karnataka there lived a genius who wrote "Gaį¹‡itasārasanĢ„graha" (which is earliest text devoted entirely to mathematics) The man who's work later borrowed by Arabs &
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This magnificent depiction of #mahabharata episode on stone is true testimony of how creative & advanced our civilization isLets Decode The #elephant seen here is ā€œSupratikaā€ mounted by ā€œBhagadattaā€In
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THREAD of MAPS on LS elections :A thread of my hand-annotated maps based on the last 3 Lok Sabha elections (2009, 2014, 2019). Do take a look! :)There are a
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Since Jan 28, the police have filed FIRs against 9 Indian journalists nationwide. Details in this thread. Sedition and charges under 6 other sections of the law were filed in
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