Education played the most significant role in entrenchment of Hindutva ideology in coastal Karnataka. Teachers of most of the schools, junior colleges, degree colleges and universities are active agents of Hindutva propaganda.
‘Sylvia’: This experimental debut uses prose and poetry to present an enigmatic relationship
An excerpt from ‘Sylvia: Distant Avuncular Ends’, by Maithreyi Karnoor. Author Maithreyi Karnoor.
When Lakshmi arrived in Bangalore on the Velankanni express, he was greeted by his cousin and fellow “Sandalwood” denizen of a roommate. They were men who took their gym seriously. They were also pleasant and warm and welcomed Lakshmi with yo-bro affable punches and hugs.
When Lakshmi followed them to their two-room – one for cooking and keeping their things in and the other, smaller one to unroll mattresses and sleep in – home in a part of the city that was sandwiched between a slum and a vegetarian middle-class neighbourhood, it dawned on Lakshmi that his cousin was still a struggler in the industry. He and his friend were stuntmen, in fact. Their routine consisted of working out in the gym several hours a day, cooking and eating chicken and heading off to jump off