By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka talks about fish and aquarium. Also gives tips on how to stop cats from chewing wires? Do fish sleep with their eyes open? Fish sleep is different from human sleep. Humans sleep to get a period of rest. For fish, sleep means a period of lowered…
By T.J.S. George Justice Katju is known for using language of the extreme kind. But his words hit the bull’s eye last week when he spoke to a regional channel. India, he said, was in the hands of goondas; they must be shot. He recalled how the so-called “aristocrats” were guillotined in the French Revolution. We…
They say no one can scare an Indian politician, not even the Gods. But it seems Ghosts can! Remember, former Bihar Health Minister Tej Pratap Yadav, son of Lalu Prasad Yadav, vacated his government bungalow calling it “haunted” and accusing his political rivals of “letting out ghosts”? Well, now we have another haunting, but this…
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it,” said that great American writer and humorist Mark Twain. I agree and I am sure all mothers will agree. However, there is a caveat. The trouble Mark Twain had mentioned should not be such that the son should kill…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC An interesting story on my WhatsApp: I had spent an hour in the bank with my dad, as he had to transfer some money. I could not resist myself and asked dad, why don’t we activate your internet banking? Why would I do that ? he asked me….
It all started with the eternal question of ‘To be or not to be’ raised by the Shakespearean Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark. To celebrate 40th anniversary of Star of Mysore or not. That was the question. The doubt arose because some one thought after the Silver Jubilee celebrations on Feb.16, 2003, it is Golden…
By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka talks about cats’ adoption and its behaviour Should you feed milk to stray cats? The traditional image of a cat licking from a bowl of milk is a misleading one. While some cats may like it for its taste, many do not find it easy to…
By T.J.S. George Indian literature is the richer for the election of Chandrashekhara Kambara as President of the Sahitya Akademi. The sad part of the story is that the distinguished Oriya writer, Pratibha Ray, was put up as a political opponent and was defeated at the polls. A novelist and academician of international fame, her commitment…
It has been an unbroken tradition for me since 40 years to write an Abracadabra column for the annual special issue of Star of Mysore brought out on Feb.16 every year. As I was thinking about the subject for this year’s Abracadabra, my eyes spied over a tome of a book “The Treasured Writings of…
The other day I was at my parents’ house and decided to clean out my old cupboard when I stumbled upon my old school shoe. It was an old pair of black lace up Bata’s. The pair looked like it had gone through multiple surgeries to extend its life; it had white stitches all over…
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