The controversy around the Waqf Board serving notices to farmers and others, which had its genesis in the small village of Honawad in Vijayapura, has slowly become a State-wide and even a national issue, with the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Waqf Amendment Bill visiting Karnataka on November 7. The Hindu Rishikesh Bahadur Desai visits Honawad and takes stock of the larger ramifications of the issue
