Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, just Srikant as he preferred to be called, the Maharaja of Mysore is no more. A man born 6 years after independence and the loss of his Kingdom to the Union of India, was hugely respected and revered in the old Mysore State, even though he never ruled the State of Mysore /Karnataka. Why ? What did he do to earn the adulation of the masses? Why was he revered at a time when the so called Modern school of thought derided royalty and everything royal ( excep...
