By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last week’s article, I had written about how the erection of the statue of H.H. Chamaraja Wadiyar X, our 23rd Maharaja, in front of our Palace, ran into a bit of a problem and how it was solved in a most ingenious way, paving the way for…
The French-born celebrated sculptor of the time; William Robert Colton was commissioned to make the statue of Chamarajendra Wadiyar X in white Italian marble. As the statue’s face bore no resemblance to the face of late King, the Queen commissioned Ganpatrao K. Mahatre from Bombay to make the correction By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Last…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently, there was a front-page news report in Star of Mysore about the sad state of a very recently erected statue of our former Chief Minister, late D. Devaraj Urs, that now stands in front of the new Office of our Deputy Commissioner. It appears its fallen metal…
By Dr. K. Javed Nayeem, MD There are so many memories of my travels by train that it is a very difficult task to decide which ones to talk about and which ones to leave out. But here are a couple of them which my readers might find interesting. As it happens in the lives…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In this fourth episode of the reminiscences of my rail journeys from the past, I would like to point out that I am finding it rather difficult to stop my ramblings on this topic, for the simple reason that many readers have kept urging me to write more on…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Going by the responses I have been getting for my last two articles, travelling by train seems to hold a great enchantment to most people. So many people have written or messaged to say that they have so many happy memories of rail travel from their childhood, that I…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last weekend, I had written about how I made a friend while travelling on a train by exchanging books with her and then tragically lost her too. I had also asked my readers to stay tuned to the remaining part of my narration about another memorable train journey and…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Just a few days ago, I read a short piece on an online national news channel, about a small bit of controversy that had been created by a family that had decided to make its own sandwiches, while on board the train that they had been travelling in. As…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Sir Mark Tully, undoubtedly the ‘Grand Old Man’ of news broadcasting, said his last ‘Good Night’ to this world last month, on 25th January, though not over the radio, over which he had said whatever he had to say, over thirty long years. An Indian-born British journalist, he joined…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Without seeming to realise what we are heading into, we as a society, seem to be walking head on, into a very major catastrophe, that is going to impact and even drastically alter the state of our happiness and the state of our civilisation too, in the very near…
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