By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Omicron, a variant of Corona, has delivered a knock-out punch to the hospitality industry. Though this industry was crippled by the earlier Corona, a small recovery was seen in the horizon aided by the revenge travel undertaken by the people who were suffocated by the two years of…
On 25.2.22, Dr. C.D. Sreenivasa Murthy, city’s well-known physician, gave me a signed book titled ‘Indomitable,’ an autobiography of Arundhati Bhattacharya, former Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI). He also gave me some star fruits from his backyard garden. Being ripe, we found it quite tasty sans the usual tang. Thank you doctor. Since…
By T.J.S. George Winston Churchill hated India. Which was natural because his mind was mutilated by imperialism, so he couldn’t understand why the stupid Indians agitated for independence. Rudyard Kipling had no such problem. Being a poet, he took a philosophical view of the world and agreed that “East is east and West is west…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week I wrote about the philanthropy of Pandit Rajavaidya P.H. Chandrabhan Singh, one of the Royal Physicians of Mysore, in gifting away 32 acres of his agricultural land for the establishment of a school for rural children, way back in the year 1970. I also mentioned there that…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently we were given the very heartening news that an exclusive medical post-graduate education and research facility is being planned at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) campus at Bengaluru. The IISc., was established in the year 1909 by a visionary partnership between the industrialist Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata,…
By T.J.S. George Lata Mangeshkar was, after all, just a playback singer — one who played in the background while actors took the limelight. Yet, when she passed away, India paused. Linguistic and regional sentiments disappeared as all of India felt the loss of a national asset. The Government ordered a two-day national mourning and…
These days we are observing Narendra Modi Government’s decisions to promote the legacies of leaders of freedom movement, who, it believes, have been ignored by the Congress regime over the last seven decades. The Modi Government apparently believes that this is a great historical wrong which must be corrected. No civilised society should allow the…
As I recuperated slowly from Covid, I was angry that even two doses of vaccine had not prevented the virus from infecting my lungs. When I emerged from my prolonged isolation and turned on the TV, I noticed my anger against the vaccine was nothing compared to the anger I saw on the screen. Like…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I have a patient, Shama Rao, who can perhaps be called a global citizen. He and his wife Chandralekha stay here in Namma Mysuru while their three children stay abroad. A son and daughter in two different places in the US and another son in Australia. And so, Shama…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC I had an interaction with an educationist recently and he narrated something very interesting: A few weeks back I was in my weekly webinar session with my Foundation students and I was scheduled to speak to my first year batch whom I had met only virtually till now….
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