On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Thejaswi Udupa <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Another interesting gem on Bangalore's secret history >>> >>> http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/La1lVqWl76MigOQzx3wVXM/Neighbourhoods--Inside-Bangalores-secret-temples.html >>> >> >> >> Count me disappointed. Every temple this article talks about is very >> well-known, long part of Bangalore's traditions and has had much written >> about them. I guess the 'secret' in the headline is just editorial oversell. > > What is "secret" about temples are are quite well-known and written > about? The author writes well, but her basic premise is flawed, that > these are places that only she is discovering. She may be discovering > them for the first time, and I'm happy for her...but these temples > have not survived (and been continuously used for worship, too) by > being "secret" and "unknown". There was not a single temple in her > list that I have not visited. I'm sorry to sound catty,but there is > this whole "cool" factor attached to being a pioneer...even if one is > not!
Probably she is a migrant and Bangalore is an adopted city (just like me). Secret is mostly contextual. For example, there are some tribes/Hindu Vaishnavites on the river island of Majuli with peculiar customs / culture (which I did not know till I visited recently) which can be considered as secret of North-east but everyone in the state of Assam knows about them. BTW is there a reference to such temples not so well known places around Bangalore which only the locals know ? (other than the sheet which Naresh posted). -- Vinayak
