In the beginning of the month, I had received a book about a famous Horticulturist during the days of Wadiyar rulers of Mysore, Rao Bahadur H.C. Javaraya titled ‘a gardener and a gentleman.’ The format of the book was similar to a miniature coffee-table book with innumerable beautifully produced photographs and pictures enriching each and…
If our God could create this universe in six days and rest on the seventh day, why not a veteran journalist? With this thought I decided to entertain myself by going to DRC Cinemas, known for its over-sized Samosa like the original American Burger and enjoy the evening. However, to enjoy a film, the most…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last Sunday, I wrote about the parking problems in our city. Very strangely, this Sunday too, I’m writing about the parking problems in our city, albeit very briefly, so that I don’t bore you with repetition and waste my breath too, addressing what seems like a clearly deaf and…
On Thursday, the Karnataka Cabinet decided to repeal the stringent law regulating religious conversion introduced by the previous BJP Government. Is this Anti-Conversion Bill draconian? Yes, but why can’t we have an Anti-Conversion Bill with specific changes? Why reject the Bill outright? While the Congress party in Karnataka has repealed the Bill, didn’t the same…
Shoppers protest; No way to ease pressure on parking space The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council with 65 Corporators whom we unfortunately call as City Fathers have taken a decision on June 9, 2023 to introduce a ‘Pay and Park’ system on six important roads of the business hubs of our city in downtown area…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It was heartening to read in yesterday’s Star of Mysore the good news that after more than a decade of dilly-dallying, our City Corporation is going to introduce the ‘Pay and Park’ system on some of our city roads, very soon. But, how soon this is going to happen,…
Last year, Zoomcar, India’s biggest self-drive rental car company, surveyed 22 cities using its proprietary drive scoring system and declared Mysuru had the worst drivers in the country! Based on yesterday’s SOM report, the survey’s assessment seems right. The report stated that in just five months of the Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway opening, there have been 570…
We are a nation of vandals — wilful destroyers of what is beautiful or venerable. Be it painting love quotes on rocks, etching perverse rhymes on elevator doors, breaking art installations, slashing bus seats, stealing street lights or cutting fences on the new Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway, we are constantly defacing, stealing or destroying public property. Mysuru-Kodagu…
Rahul Gandhi is providing more than required grist to the legal luminaries of our country and also to successive Governments at the Centre to study the innumerable civil and criminal laws of our colonial British rulers that we embraced and adopted with glee. It needed a Rahul Gandhi to show us how those laws of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week we saw the terribly disturbing tragedy of a young lady techie, losing her life, when she got trapped in her cab, that became submerged in rainwater, at the K.R. Circle underpass in Bengaluru. This is not the first time that such a thing has happened, either in…
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