A Veeramani Dna

US president Barack Obama's whirlwind tour of India ended on Tuesday. But 69-year-old weaver Narayanappa R from Bangalore is an embittered man because all his efforts to personally meet Obama and gift him a three feet by three feet silk stole that he and his wife had hand woven and could be folded and fit into a match box came to a nought.

"Her house is somewhere in the lane next to a temple in Thalamari village in Raichur taluk. Try to locate her," said our photo editor, pointing at the photograph of an elderly woman.The photograph showed the woman in distress in the midst of a collapsed house due to the floods that had ravaged the village in October 2009.We set out for Thalamari, w...

US president Barack Obama's whirlwind tour of India ended on Tuesday. But 69-year-old weaver Narayanappa R from Bangalore is an embittered man because all his efforts to personally meet Obama and gift him a three feet by three feet silk stole that he and his wife had hand woven and could be folded and fit into a match box came to a nought.

"Her house is somewhere in the lane next to a temple in Thalamari village in Raichur taluk. Try to locate her," said our photo editor, pointing at the photograph of an elderly woman.The photograph showed the woman in distress in the midst of a collapsed house due to the floods that had ravaged the village in October 2009.We set out for Thalamari, w...