Mysuru: Many worlds of one city unveiled at the Jumboo Savari last evening with caparisoned elephants in the lead, marking the culmination of the grand finale of the ten-day Dasara festivities. This is 409th Dasara that was started in the Mysuru region by Raja Wadiyar at Srirangapatna in 1610 and subsequently taken over by democratically elected Governments that are continuing the tradition as ‘Nada Habba.’
Though a low-key affair this year, with severe floods in as many as 22 districts in the State in which more than 80 persons lost their lives and lakhs of people rendered homeless and huge crop and property loss particularly in North Karnataka, the elephants, led by the mighty Howdah-carrier Arjuna, performed their roles with well-established protocol and achieved perfection.
