the Hassanamba Temple, Hassan, the town named after the divine ...

If we pass the hotel and go straight on we are in seconds in the town square, at which point, last year, they sliced down the shop-fronts deeply so as to widen the road and, for some time now, they have a wide space and not yet a real road. ... The temple has existed from around 1100 AD, and now inside its walls in the courtyard today's plebeian painterâ€"with the approval of his modern master, the civil servantâ€"has struck cheap loud paint on old stone columns sanctioned by ...