India, Sept. 29 -- Sir,

After reading Vikram Muthanna's article 'Shhhh. they're building Road to Riches' under his weekly column In Black & White in Star of Mysore dated Sept. 27, about the pothole menace in Bengaluru, I was reminded of an interesting WhatsApp forward which I thought would interest other SOM readers. Here it is:

Few people know this, but the legendary battle between Karna and Arjuna once happened near to the Chola Kingdom, close to current day Bangalore!

That morning, Karna had sworn:

"Before the Sun sets today, I shall defeat Arjuna!"

Confident and fiery, he climbed onto his Rath, the horses neighing like they were ready for Formula 1.

Arjuna wasn't far away - just across what today would've been a couple of juncti...