srinivasa kappanna

On January 1, 1977, a little girl went up to the stage and enraptured the crowd with her graceful performance. The debutant was ace danseuse Prathibha Prahlad and the venue was Ravindra Kalakshetra.

It's more than 11 years since Venkatamannahalli, a tiny hamlet about 240km from Bengaluru, hit the headlines when Naxalites bombed a Karnataka state reserve police camp, killing five policemen and a civilian in February 2005.