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Breaking News: Hampi Village Destroyed
August 09, 2011, 06:56:20 pm
Just read this on the Rock & Ice website.

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With only a few hours of warning, the residents of the village of Hampi were informed by district officials that their homes and businesses would be
destroyed. ... Within hours, the entire Hampi bazaar had been reduced to rubble, leaving hundreds of families without homes or jobs.
Shocking if true - though not surprising given stories I've heard elsewhere in India about unholy cabals of local authorities and property developers driving farmers off their land, e.g. on the outskirts of Bangalore to build office parks

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Confirmed by local newspaper the Deccan Chronicle, albeit with an article that focuses more on the historical / architectural significance of the village than on the appalling treatment of the residents:

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While such colonnaded bazaars fashioned out of granite are found in the abandoned imperial 16th century temples at Vijayanagara, like the Vitthala, they occur nowhere else in Southern India. Only at Hampi has a living historical bazaar been linked with a living historical temple. It is very unfortunate that authorities have now expelled the local people and demolished their shops, hotels and houses. What was a unique living monument, linked with Southern India’s greatest kings, has now been reduced to a lifeless ruin.

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#2 Re: Breaking News: Hampi Village Destroyed
September 12, 2011, 05:22:20 pm
Anyone heard anything about how this effects people climbing, in all aspects of the trip. Accomodation/eating/price etc etc?

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#3 Re: Breaking News: Hampi Village Destroyed
September 12, 2011, 09:12:42 pm
Yeah, fuck people losing their homes and livelihoods. What about our cheap holidays. ::)

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#4 Re: Breaking News: Hampi Village Destroyed
September 12, 2011, 09:21:59 pm
Yeah, fuck people losing their homes and livelihoods. What about our cheap holidays. ::)

I would have thought going there would have a knock on positive effect on their livelihoods.... Well, the ones that still have them.

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#5 Re: Breaking News: Hampi Village Destroyed
September 12, 2011, 09:22:53 pm
Yeah, fuck people losing their homes and livelihoods. What about our cheap holidays. ::)

 :agree:

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#6 Re: Breaking News: Hampi Village Destroyed
September 14, 2011, 01:56:52 pm
"The climbing hostel Goan Corner and its neighbors have not yet been targeted, although it is possible that that may change in the future."

 

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