Karnataka-Maharashtra dispute | Invisible boundaries, visible apathy

Karnataka-Maharashtra dispute | Invisible boundaries, visible apathy

Parthenahalli village, located on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border, is the last large settlement on the Athani-Jath road before the crossover into Gugwad village in Maharashtra. The signboards of shops in these villages are in both Kannada and Marathi. Sadashiv Jadhav runs a plant nursery in a portion of his three-acre sugar cane farm. He has one … Read more

Invisible boundaries, visible apathy

Invisible boundaries, visible apathy

The boundary disputes between Karnataka and Maharashtra go back decades and continue to flare up every now and then. Rishikesh Bahadur Desai travels to the border areas and finds that livelihood issues overweigh linguistic concerns even as politics continues to play out in multiple ways Source link