September 2025
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Mavalli’s Goddess of Sunlight and the Bangalore Plague of 1898
The story goes that hundreds of years ago, Goddess Chamundeshwari, the protector of the old Mysore region, chanced upon the acres and acres of mango orchards in our Mavalli, and liked what she saw. The name of our ooru, our village, once laden with rich mango orchards, now close to Bangalore’s central business district, comes…
