The ubiquitous roof tiles, known as Mangalore tiles, are back in the reckoning. In villages and towns, these tiles are used as a roofing material. Now it has become fashionable to have sloped roofs, ...

If we were asked to sketch a house when we were young, we typically would have drawn one up with sloping roofs. If it's in South India, one may safely assume, the roof is imagined to be in Mangalore ...