Since past many years, specially after the appearance of private hospitals of star value, we have been seeing many cases of vandalism on hospitals as also attacks on doctors and claims for monetary compensation from the doctors or the hospitals that treated the patients who did not survive. In our city too, this kind of…
While leafing through the recent copy of The Week magazine, I ran into the cover-story on Justice Chandru Krishnaswamy (Chandru for short), who had retired recently and a connected interview of Suriya Sivakumar (Suriya for short), the famous Tamil film actor. Having been educated in law and seen the portals of criminal Courts and High…
On Sunday, after watching Kannada TV channels showing the burial of Kannada film world’s iconic matinee idol Puneeth Rajkumar, who had died of heart attack on Friday (Oct. 29), I came to office to get rid of that melancholic feeling. Very sad indeed. He bloomed as an actor rather early in life as a child…
Yesterday’s Deccan Herald had carried a pictorial item under the column ‘World at a glance’ which interested me. It was about the Great Pyramids of Giza, near Cairo, Egypt. Since I had visited these Pyramids, I was naturally interested. The picture with caption which is self-explanatory is produced above. I thought it is going to…
Air-India comes back to TATAs ; Business of Government is not to be in business Our Mandya farmers must be the happier lot now. After years of uncertainty about the local Sugar Factory (Mysore Sugar Company Limited) which was deep in loss and was virtually closed, the farmers whose primary commercial crop is sugarcane, heard…
A couple of days back I received the Annual Report of the Coorg Education Fund, Madikeri, Kodagu, like in the past few years. Though I hardly go through it, it is a reminder that I am a Life Member of this Fund. I don’t even remember when and how I became a Life Member. Let…
In the human garden, where flowers bloom, Mathoorji was also one; but one that was perfumed spreading subtle fragrance. On 25th September 2021, I had the privilege of unveiling the bust of Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurthy at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s (BVB) Sports Ground named after him, at Vijayanagar I Stage. That event sent me down…
The American influence peddler and deceptive persuader of a magazine TIME has come up with an interesting and revealing subject in its Sept. 27, 2021 issue. It has its selection of ‘The World’s Most Influential People’ numbering 100. As I know, this magazine for all its power and glory has never been well-disposed towards India…
Coronavirus, the COVID-19, had taken its toll of human beings all over this planet earth since 2019 and presently threatening to enter its III Phase, as experts call, to attack the children too… Mercifully our scientists have come up with an effective (almost) vaccination to contain the pandemic — immunisation by vaccination. But this should…
Renowned Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, MS, FRCS, who is also the Founder and Chairman of Narayana Health, shares his encounter with Mother Teresa in 1989. He tells how his perspective towards life changed after meeting Mother Teresa. He also stresses the importance of touching a patient which is no longer the practice these…
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