[HISTORICAL PHOTOESSAY] The Verse that Enthroned Raja Paramara Bhoja

An inspiring and moving historical narrative from the childhood of the 11th Century Emperor, the immortal scholar-monarch, Paramara Bhoja.

The Dawn of Civilisational Darkness

BY THE CLOSE of the tenth century, even as Shakti Kavi (Brawny Poet) Ranna was writing supercharged verses of brilliant Kannada poetry extolling his patron, the Western Chalukya King Tailapa II, classical Bharatavarsha was perched on the edge of implosion into irretrievable civilizational pieces. In the faraway impregn…