>>In the Comment page article, > For a newly imagined ‘historical temper’ (Feb.7), a sentence got jumbled. What read as “Mahadeva Shankanapura calls for the building of “imaginative truths” out of the Manteswamy and Malemadeshwara performance traditions which are practices in contemporary Karnataka, as a way of dealing with the paucity of sources and early 15th centuries whose brilliant discoveries of trignometry were for a Dalit past” should have been: “Mahadeva Shankanapura calls for the building of ‘imaginative truths’ out of the Manteswamy and Malemadeshwara performance traditions which are practices in contemporary Karnataka, as a way of dealing with the paucity of sources for a Dalit past.”