By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem
As you are all in the midst of celebrating a very colourful Dasara festival back in Namma Mysuru, my family and I are celebrating a different kind of equally colourful festival faraway, in Chikmagalur. This is the beautiful place I belong to and this is the place where the beautiful Kurunji flowers (Strobilanthhes kunthiana) are right now in bloom, on the slopes of the Bababudangiri Hills, that form a magnificent and now much misty backdrop, for the quaint, old-fashioned town.
