Mangaluru is perhaps the only city in the world which has various names in many languages. It is Mangaluru in Kannada, Mangalore in English, Kudla in Tulu, Kodiyala in Konkani, Maikhal in Beary, Mangalapuram in Malayalam, Manjarur in Arabic and Manjarun in Persian. And a three-year-old child speaks in three languages – Kannada, Tulu and Konkani, sometimes Beary.
It is an ancient city. The Greek astronomer and explorer of the 2nd Century, Ptolemy makes a mention of…
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Ancient port city witnesses yet another Hindutva vs Congress fight
