Mysuru: In separate cases, Railway Police have registered cases following the death of two unidentified persons at its jurisdiction. In the first case, the Railway Police, who found an unidentified person lying sick on Platform No. 4 at the City Railway Station, admitted the unidentified man to K.R. Hospital for treatment where he breathed his…
Award presentation & Music concerts at Alwar Kalabhavan on Jan.18, 20
January 16, 2020Mysuru: Bhramara Trust of Y.T. and Madhuri Thathachari, Mysuru, has organised a programme at Alwar Kalabhavan, Sri Krishna Temple premises, Gokulam, on Jan.18 at 6 pm to present Prof. G.T. Narayana Rao Award to young saxophonist Vid. Harish Pandav. G.N. Ananthavardhana will be the chief guest. Dr. Rama V. Bennur will be the guest of…
Annual Athletic Meet held
January 16, 2020Mysuru: I Can The Learning Centre School conducted its Annual Athletic Meet recently at Chamundi Vihar Stadium in Nazarbad here recently. Dr. Usha Hege, Mysuru’s first woman to complete the Ironman Western Australian 2019 Triathlon, was the chief guest. The event began with a guard of honour, hosting of the flag and oath-taking. The Torch…
Sugama sangeetha workshop on Feb. 2
January 16, 2020Mysuru: A sugama sangeetha workshop has been organised under the auspices of Mysore Ananthaswamy Memorial Trust at Bidaram Ramamandira in Shivarampet on Feb. 2. For the first time in Mysuru, Sunitha Ananthaswamy, well-known singer and daughter of Mysore Ananthaswamy, will be conducting the one-day music workshop. Profile: Mysore Ananthaswamy, an artiste par excellence, was responsible…
K.V. Murthy to be conferred Sarvashreshta Kalaposhaka title
January 16, 2020Mysuru: Vasundhara Performing Arts Centre (VPAC) Trust, Mysuru, has organised a function to felicitate art patron K.V. Murthy for his outstanding service to art and culture. The function will be held on Jan. 17 at 6 pm at Jaganmohan Palace auditorium in city in the presence of Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji of Suttur Mutt. R….
Whatever you do, do it well…
January 16, 2020By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A WhatsApp forward: When Abraham Lincoln became the President of America, his father was a shoe-maker. On the first day, as Lincoln entered the Senate to give his inaugural address, a Senator stood up. He was a very rich aristocrat. He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget…
Masculine and Feminine Gods
January 16, 2020By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In mythology, generally, masculinity refers to the human desire to dominate and be territorial like the proverbial alpha male. In a positive sense it protects, in a negative sense it controls. Femininity is associated with nourishment, with feeding others (in a positive sense) and consuming others…
Of legal language and legal sentences
January 16, 2020Sir, In the article “Why only lawyers can understand legal language” (Star of Mysore dated Jan.13), the authors have beautifully analysed the evolution of the legal language, circumstances leading to use of such language giving examples. It is very impressive. In a lighter vein I am reminded of what Stephen Leacock, the humorist, has written…
Census Sense
January 16, 2020The issue of country’s acute shortfall of toilets and the habit of defecating in open spaces by millions of its people, both in the fields around villages and roadsides within city limits which figured in the circles of officialdom as well as aam aadmi for quite sometime in recent years having yielded place to other…
City’s Pooja Harsha becomes first woman to represent Asia in WAKO
January 16, 2020Elected as member of WAKO World Women in Sport Committee City’s Pooja Harsha, Chairman, WAKO India Women Committee, got elected as a Member of WAKO World Women in Sport Committee. The election was held recently in Antalya, Turkey. WAKO (World Association of Kickboxing Organisations) is an International Kickboxing Federation with 129 affiliated nation’s in the…
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