Thread - For the last few days, most ill informed people on X are talking about North KA region as if its poverty rate is at par with that of South Sudan. Agree it’s way behind South KA in terms of development, but here is what you should know before embarrassing yourself. 1/5 @ 1.5L & 1.6L Avg PCI, two North KA divisions are much better than the avg of 14 states & over 3 times that of Bihar. The average for North KA is brought down by one district ie. Kalburgi (PCI of ~100k), which is a bastion of INC chief, Kharge for over 5 decades now. 2/5

Finally managed to visit 8th century BagaLi Kalleshwara temple. Probably the only temple in Karnataka developed by all 4 major dynasties, Rashtrakutas, Chalukyas, Hoysalas and Vijayanagara. (Thread) Makara thoraNa, Darpana Sundari ( the one in Beluru is inspired by this), Gaja Lakshmi ( note 4 elephants instead of 2), Antarala