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Shashikiran Mullur
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Latest posts by Shashikiran Mullur
trifling with history in Halebid
Two minutes before arriving in Halebid a farm came up, its house painted in pink and green fluorescent colors completely foreign to this region, but our eyes were drawn beyond the startling walls of the house to a mound shaped like the smooth top of a giant sarcophagus fifty meters behind the house.Read more.
Posted on 17 March 2010 | 9:10 pm
The Dutch Period Museum, Colombo
It is on Prince Street in Pettah, the marketplace in what was once the Fort area, and is no more princely, being daily overrun by plebeians for decades now. I had taken the hotel car, and we went slowly, slower than walking, seeing colored balloons, dress pieces for men at 200-rupees-each piled on...Read more.
Posted on 11 March 2010 | 10:39 pm
Sigiriya from the top and the bottom and from afar
For eight centuries before Kashyapa the activity in Sigiriya was monastic. Then for the next eight centuries, it was again a home for monks. After that it was abandoned and the bricks crumbled and the timber rotted and something that approached a pharaoh's doing didn't stay intact for as long except...Read more.
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 3:25 pm