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The city of Mysore. The day after we left Bangalore for Mysore, a revered film actor named Rajkumar was kidnapped for ransom by a notorious elephant poacher and sandalwood smuggler named Veerapaan, who in his forty-year criminal career has murdered over 120 policemen (I am not kidding). Because film actors are worshipped in India like deities, both cities of Bangalore and Mysore completely shut in down in protest of the kidnapping. More...