If you're planning to cross into Tamil Nadu, or out of it, via Attibele today, change your plans. Kannada activists are shutting the inter-state border from 11 a.m. on Monday, blocking traffic moving in either direction. It's a one-day, one-location action, but it's designed to send a message ahead of a much bigger shutdown planned for August 13.
The man behind today's move is veteran activist Vatal Nagaraj, who announced the plan at a demonstration in Mysuru on Saturday. No vehicles from Tamil Nadu will be let into Karnataka, he said, and no Karnataka vehicles will be allowed to cross the other way either. It's a full, two-way stop, not a slowdown.
