Early this morning I was to meet the popular TV journalist Rajdeep Sardesai for a breakfast interview regarding the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Mysuru-Kodagu region. We agreed to meet at the now ‘must stop-over’ breakfast place for outsiders — Mylari Hotel in Nazarbad. I arrived first and settled into what I believed to be…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Going by some very interesting feedback that I have been getting over the past one week, my last article, where I discussed what our Dasara Exhibition meant to me in the days of my childhood, seems to have touched the heartstrings of many readers, putting them too in similar…
The process of filing nomination papers is underway nationwide for a phase-wise election and two nominations caught my eye: Retired IAS Officer and former Mysuru DC G. Kumar Naik, who will contest from Raichur on a Congress ticket and former Calcutta High Court Judge, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who will contest on a BJP ticket. As…
On Sunday, March 31, Mysore Open Forum (MOF) had arranged a talk on ‘Electoral Bonds and Political Funding.’ It is understandable because the Supreme Court has on Feb. 15, 2024 struck down the Electoral Bonds Scheme (EBS) as ‘unconstitutional’, ‘arbitrary and violative of Article 14.’ And MOF members wanted to know why and how of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent statement from Ayub Khan, the new Chairman of Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) that henceforth, all exhibitions, of all kinds in the city, would be held only in the Dasara Exhibition Grounds, should be welcomed by all right-thinking Mysureans. I say this because, a good many exhibitions of…
Our city is getting hotter with every passing year. As temperatures soared yesterday, the Karnataka Government advised citizens to turn into camels: “Drink sufficient water whenever possible, even if you are NOT thirsty.” But where is the water to drink when our cities are as dry as a desert? Instead of just issuing some orders…
In view of the severe water scarcity staring us in the face, this summer, specially in Bengaluru, a city of 1,50,00,000 population and of huge industrial hub, water management experts have come up with many suggestions similar to band-aid to a broken limb. Some such quick-fix (is it really?) suggestions are: 1. Tapping the lakes….
One of the familiar names among the politicians, especially Congress politicians, in our city since early 1980s was that of Vasu. Simply Vasu, without any initials, any prefix or suffix to his name. As a politician, he rose to become a Corporator and then the Mayor of the city during 1989-90 and also an MLA…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last article was about the striking similarity in the Torquay Fountain in England and its identical twin that we have here in our city. I had already said that our ‘migrant’ fountain, that now stands as a mute witness to the history of our city, at the Northern…
At long last, the BJP has announced its candidate. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the BJP’s choice of a royal candidate, has ignited a flurry of reactions in the Mysuru-Kodagu region. Yaduveer’s selection has sparked sophisticated discussions in drawing rooms, lively banter in tea shops, concern in chaat stands and passionate debates in smokers’ corners. For…
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