 "Why does Hindi dominate popular culture, even among the elite? Any dance floor will light up when Bollywood is played and that is a fact")
I saw a play on Thursday evening, called Crossing to Talikota. It was the last play written by Girish Karnad, who was a friend, and was directed by Arjun Sajnani, also a friend. The play is about a battle that is not as famous or as well known as, say, the second and third battles of Panipat. Or the battle of Plassey.
This is strange because the same themes that touch upon Panipat appear here: the domination of “foreign” rulers over Indian ones and the end of a sort of golden era, whether real or imagined.
Such a difference happens because generally
