The lovely gazebos on General Thimmayya Road in the military camp area are among the favourite places for the young people of Belagavi, in north Karnataka. Built in Portuguese style with overgrown creepers, they seem like a perfect setting for photo shoots. Around a mile to the north-east from there, at the centre of a vast field, lie two similar looking structures, painted in white lime. They are not gazebos, but either tombs or memorials.
Few know that an incredible tale from the pages of history lies buried in these structures. They are the tombs of Bhaskar Rao Bhave, king of the erstwhile Naragund (or Nargund) kingdom, his mother Yamunabai Dadaji and wife Savitri Bhave.
