Category: Folk Stories

“Echoes of History: Pietro Della Valle’s 1623 AD Expedition to Ikkeri and the Tragic Tale of Sati”

In the year 1623 AD, Pietro Della Valle, an Italian traveler, embarked on a remarkable journey to Ikkeri(the Capital of Keladi) during the Hiriya Venkatappa Nayaka period. Little did he know that his encounter with a local widow would lead him to witness a practice deeply ingrained in the culture of the time – the […]

August 10, 2023
Folk sagas of heroic women from our past ….

Like in Hampi, every stone there will narrate a story about it, likewise I encountered a peculiar strange folk story of a bastion constructed by sacrificing a pregnant woman(Human sacrifice) for the built-up fort in Pavagada. Likewise, there are similar folk stories related to two other pregnant women who were sacrificed at different stages during […]

September 20, 2020

“Echoes of History: Pietro Della Valle’s 1623 AD Expedition to Ikkeri and the Tragic Tale of Sati”