Our family name is Badgi. No-brainer there. Badgi is our ancestral village. It is a typical small village on the banks of the river Krishna, in Bilgi Tehsil, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India. Our family’s claim to fame is the ancestral Kesavadeva temple which was excavated within our premises during our forefather’s times. The temple itself was built by Chalukya Vikramaditya VI in the 11 th Century AD. For those of you interested in knowing about it more, check this link https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/100289/10/10_chapter%204.pdf it has a reference to this fact. Every year in December there is a Utsav(festival), which is conducted and all the descendants of the Badgi family descend on Badgi to participate in the proceedings with great fervour also with the prospect of meeting all the cousins and extended families. However, it was a curious aspect for me to note that half our extended family had the family name as Gudi, while half of them were Badgi? ...
This is my attempt to document all the stories which I have heard since my childhood from my father, grandmothers, uncles and aunts about our family and pass it on to the next generation. These are all based on true stories and all the characters are real.