On Friday around 11 am I got a call. The message was disturbing, unpleasant, “Ponnu uncle passed away.” It was about the death of Ponnu Muthanna, known simply as Ponnu to his friends, the man behind the Pelican Pub, popular eatery and beer pub, on Hunsur Road in Jayalakshmipuram. He was 86. The news twanged…
A crisis of voter’s conscience or of India’s Constitution?
June 16, 2024The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways… — Lord Tennyson Lest one good Constitution should corrupt India! — With apologies to Lord Tennyson There was a scholarly talk at city’s Mysore Open Forum (MOF) which is like Arcadia in Athens during the time of Socrates. Here periodically…
Third Avatar of Modi
June 13, 2024A Prime Minister who made a weak India strong and a humbled India proud after 76 years of Independence Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. —Charles de Gaulle Looking back at the Lok Sabha election of 2024 and its result,…
Yes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi The game is over. BJP won the game but…
June 5, 2024Bharat Mata Ki Jai. We the people of India, that is Bharat, have spoken. No single political party has got 272 seats, that magical number, out of 543 seats when the result was announced yesterday, 4th June 2024. In a country with multiple political parties, only two parties have pan-India presence — Congress and BJP….
Modi Mantrava Japiso Manuja! | Exit Poll-2024: Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and the Astrologer
June 3, 2024This is my take on the Parliamentary Election 2024 exit poll survey now being beamed in all TV channels. This has made the Opposition sulk. Personally speaking, my faith in this exit poll survey is same as my faith in astrology. It is not ipso facto always correct. But sometimes… Honestly, in the matter of…
How to reverse ageing and prolong life? – 2
June 2, 2024[Continued from yesterday] Old age is no doubt boring as much as tiring. If left to be alone with children separated and health not good it is worse. Ask any old man. Age is only a number. Old in body but young at heart (another way of saying ‘he is a dirty old man!’). Now…
How to reverse ageing and prolong life? -1
June 1, 2024Formula: Diet-exercise-fasting Man has always been worried and concerned about ageing and death. His longing to be immortal is as old as the time of Adam and Manu. Normally ageing precedes death, except in cases of natal death. Hence, man hopes that if ageing is reversed his longevity can be prolonged. But die he must….
Curse of landfill haunts our city
May 30, 2024PM Modi wants to help but… Wealth we produce goes to our Bank. Where does the waste we produce go? It goes to the landfill in different parts of our city. The biggest one is at Sewage Farm, Vidyaranyapuram, Mysuru South, occupying 14 acres and it is so big beforelong it might compete with the…
Personally impersonal about a 50 years of wedded bliss
May 27, 2024I am at a loss to begin the narration about a 50th marriage anniversary celebration of a couple, I know for years, that I attended yesterday at a local hotel. Indeed, it was an intimate, affable and a jovial occasion for about hundred-plus people of a mixed age group. Most of them were of the…
Book Talk: A peek into US politics and society
May 15, 2024Surprises, pleasant or unpleasant, never cease to happen in everybody’s life. Recently, I had a pleasant surprise when the Blue Dart courier delivered two books from a friend in New York, M.P. Prabhakaran. Many years ago I had written about this old journalist-friend of mine first acquainted in Mumbai where we were journalists though working…
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