"Woohoo." Prathik and Revanth catch (you) up on their whereabouts and what has been exciting them lately.
And then of course, they proceed to the subject of the podcast - forgotten or rather diminished cities. Each paints the history and legacy of cities that had spectacular presence in the historical record but today stand somewhat decrepit. Prathik speaks on Pazhayarai, a pilgrimage site, that Tamil Vaishnava and Shaiva poets have sung about, occurs in the hagiographies of saints and philosophers, and has a cozy connection to the Chola Dynasty. Revanth speaks on one of the most celebrated necropolises in Indian history, Khuldabad in Northern Maharashtra, where thousands of Sufi saints are said to have been buried and a couple of rulers and nobles including Sultans of Ahmednagar, Nawabs of Hyderabad, and the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
