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Wow! Only Giddu Hegde could have taken something like this and made it into a deeply engrossing story across eras and people, even for a reader from India. Have never set foot on Australian soil but man, I do want to go see the Stick Shed now.

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The Australian Taj Mahal!

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Echo your sentiments ! A true example of 'Form follows function'. , guided by the national needs and constraints of the time .

Noticed Mangalore in the stick sheds map. The English overlords were quite liberal in sprinkling their anglicised Indian town names across Australia:

Lucknow, NSW

Mangalore , Victoria

Surat, Queensland

Malabar, NSW

Punjaub , QLD

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There's a Lucknow in Victoria, too, through which I drove recently.

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