I watched Bhavana Belegere interviewd and took me back to one moment - where I got to interact with her father Ravi Belegere. It was late one night, like about 10 pm, and there was a book store called BBC - or Basavangudi Books Corner or Belegere Books Corner on the Gandhi Bazar main street. I walked in looking for a book on Tipu Sultan, that I wanted to read. A play actually. I was looking for the book, and there was no one in the store. Must have been 2016-17. I picked up a book and was engrossed in it, when I had a top on my shoulder. It was Ravi Belegere.
He started to have a conversation with me, and when he found out what I was looking for, gave me a quick, yet insighful lesson on history and the connection between the French Jacobins and Tipu Sultan.
It was an interaction for 10 minutes, that and nothing more.
It stood star struck for those ten minutes, though I was a big critic full of opinions about his Hi Bangalore! work. He was also the man who translated Protima Gauri Bedi's Timepass, that I loved to read.
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