Mysore/Mysuru: The usual splendour and fervour attached to Rama Navami celebrations in the city was wholly missing today as people confined the celebration to their homes due to the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown enforced by the Government to stop the spread of the deadly pandemic. There was no distribution of Panaka, Kosambari, Butter Milk and Prasada…
Shivaji accepts Aurangzeb’s invitation and goes to Agra… [Continued from Mar. 23] During my school days, there was a text book in Kannada about famous leaders and prophets of the world. Among them was Shivaji about whom my mother had told me in her own distinctive way — about Shivaji’s adventures in superlatives. Of his…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A human interest story: The on-duty Nurse took the anxious young Army Major to the bedside. “Your son is here,” she said softly, to the old man lying on the bed. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient opened his eyes. Heavily sedated because…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist As a child in Mumbai, I watched Rajan Uncle perform Chakyar Kootu. My parents were economic migrants from Odisha. My neighbours were from Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. And we got to see cultural performances that no one in Odisha or Maharashtra, would have had access…
Global scenario, particularly in the self-declared developed countries and that in India are strikingly contrasting on many counts in the ongoing Covid-triggered crisis. The vast differences in the pace of its spread, number of victims testing positive and fatalities in the countries of Europe as well as America compared to the respective phenomena in India…
Sir, Mahatma Gandhi said that the Future of India lies in its villages. Today when we see heart-wrenching visuals of lakhs of poor desperately trying to leave the cities and return to their homes, we are reminded of his words. Decades after Gandhiji, a messiah named Anna Hazare championed the cause in a village named…
Sir, Thanks to both the Central and State Governments for taking measures to curb Coronavirus. I suggest and urge our Prime Minister Modi to take the following additional steps to put an end to this endemic. (i) Track all the people who have come from foreign countries to India in the recent past. (ii) Let…
Mysuru District Journalists’ Association (MDJA) donated Rs. 1 lakh to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund this morning. Picture shows MDJA President C.K. Mahendra and General Secretary Lokesh Babu handing over the cheque to District Minister V. Somanna during his visit to the Youth Hostel. City BJP President Srivatsa, Journalists M.T. Yogesh Kumar, Raghavendra and others…
Mysuru District Brahmana Sangha donated Rs.2 lakh towards Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) to fight COVID-19. Sangha President D.T. Prakash is seen handing over the cheque to District Minister V. Somanna at Government Guest House in Nazarbad yesterday in the presence of BJP Mysuru in-Charge M.V. Ravishankar,…
Janaspandana Trust, led by former MLA M.K. Somashekar, in association with Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Ashram, distributed food to the daily wagers near Chamundeshwari Temple of Nachanahallipalya in J.P. Nagar. Along with food, mask and drinking water were also distributed to thousands of people. Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Ashram’s Prasad, former Mayor Narayan, Railway Co-operative Bank Director…
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