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Cotton to Cloud

Cotton to Cloud - Sunset to Sunrise We stopped over at the Davanagere Town recently,  a district headquarters in the state of Karnatakaand the 7th largest city in the state of Karanataka ( Bangalore/Bengalooru is the largest). It is about 260kms/160 miles from Bangalore.(  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davangere ) on the Bangalore Mumbai (Bombay) National Highway and also boasts of a large Railway station and the government plans to set up an aiport soon in Davanagere (. http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/13/stories/2008071352540300.htm ). Davanagere was the textile capital of  South India in the last century and it even today people remember the quality of Davangere cotton dhotis (  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Dhoti). Davangere's cotton mills are closed today and stand testimony to a hoary past when it was called the "Manchester of South India", today the looms stand still in these factories. Davanagere today has a number of wonderful educational...