Houses are riddled with bullet holes.

The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks.

Van Gogh's Starry Night, a Jane Austen novel,

And fit in all the right places with lots and lots of star sapphires.

A starry fabric of worlds, yet untold.

In my visit last month, the wall was adorned by a large map of Karnataka festooned with colored pins, to indicate that he now served most district capitals in the remotest parts of the state.