Sunset over Tungabhadra River with a person on rocks.

Hampi. A mythical landscape scattered with huge granite boulders balanced precariously on each other and held together by mythology and history. Bisected by the Tungabhadra and ancient irrigation canals that create a sliver of blue and green across the rugged terrain, this is a land imbued with the presence of gods, goddesses, and heroes. Spread across this are the ruins of a magnificent city once described as the best-provided city in the world.

In this Blog on Hampi, we dive back into its history and mythology to bring you fascinating tales and anecdotes from South India’s largest, wealthiest, and most powerful kingdom. While excavating and sifting through the sands of time, we invite you to share with us your experiences of this surreal realm.

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Lizards of Hampi: Watchers between Worlds

Published on: 27/11/2025 | Contributors: Preanka Roy & Alok Ranjan

Colossal boulders, rocky landscapes and monumental temples - welcome to the ancient capital of the Vijayanagara kingdom, Hampi. It was almost as grand as I had expected it to be. But something smaller and more enchanting caught my eye - the lizards! Not only the monitors and agamids but also the geckos; they darted up and across the grey granite walls of the shrines that they called home. Initially I had discarded their presence as “ordinary” but the more I explored the local communities the more it became evident that in Hampi even the tiniest beings carry stories older than time.

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Singing of confluences, tangible and intangible

Published on: 21/10/2025 | Contributors: Sourabha Rao & Alok Ranjan

This is a story of confluences. Confluence of rivers. Confluence and faiths. Confluence of cultures. Confluence of architectural styles. Perhaps we could condense all this and call it a confluence of beauty and truth.

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Water, Stone, and Empire: Reading Vijayanagara in the Evolve Back Kamalapura Palace

Published on: 18/09/2025 | Contributors: Anirudh Kanisetti & Vikram Nanjappa

Step out from the cool embrace of your villa, and the heat is the first thing that strikes you — the same sharp, dry warmth, with its distant hint of spice, that the rulers of Vijayanagara felt five hundred years ago.

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