Ruminating About My Wrongs in Engaging With Wildlife
<p>I’d gone to Hampi to see the sloth bear.</p>
<p>Hampi is the name now in vogue for Vijayanagara, which means Victory City. Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, “Victory City,” is set in Vijayanagara, the capital of a kingdom that spanned all of peninsular India. Its time of glory was over five-hundred years ago.</p>
<p>Victorious and ever-prospering for over two centuries, the kingdom fell in hours on a single, fateful day, crushed by the combined armies of five neighbouring sultanates. The battle wasn’t about extending boundaries; it was waged to settle grievances. To fire up its fighters, the invaders of Vijayanagara dangled before them the promise of loot of one of the wealthiest cities of the time.</p>
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