
Karnataka | Regaining momentum
December is when government officials and their departments at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru pack up for a two-week sojourn in the northern city of Belagavi, 500-odd km away. There, a replica of Karnataka’s stately secretariat—the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha—hosts the winter session of the state legislature. On December 6, late into the final Friday evening before…