By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The week that has gone by has been a very painful one for the entire medical fraternity of our city and its surroundings. It has taken away from our midst Dr. M.S. Vishveshwara, a very noble soul who as a practicing Oncologist, had tirelessly served suffering humanity for well…
Yesterday was Krishna Janmashtami, Lord Krishna’s birthday. Among the Hindu Gods, Krishna, for me, is by far the most human, and that’s why I like him. He is a God of paradoxes, like us mortals. As mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik observed, Krishna challenges all conventional notions of divinity and appropriate social conduct. His name literally translates…
Ayn Rand did warn us in 1957!: “When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favours – When you see that men get richer by graft and by…
It’s been 75 years since we began to rule ourselves. We must be proud because we continue to exist as a union and a democratic union at that. It is no easy task for a nation as diverse as ours to stay together for as long as we have. But our inclination to side with…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC This year, the Government in its wisdom decided to celebrate Dasara in a “grand way.” Excellent news for the general public, all the stakeholders of the tourism industry and the officials of course. Though I am a born optimist, of late looking at the way the Department of…
Hindu religion seems to be a religion for all people for all reasons and for all seasons. Some times I wonder whether it is a religion, like other religions, with a Godhead for the followers to pray. But then there are so many Godheads in Hindu religion and the follower can believe in any, make…
[Continued from yesterday] Swami Vivekananda said: “Let New India arise….. Let her arise out of the peasant’s cottage….., out of the huts of the fisherman, the cobbler and the sweeper. Let her emanate from the factory, from marts and from the markets and from groves and forests, from hills and mountains.” Can we not interpret…
The Karnataka Premier League (KPL) has been rechristened as Maharaja Trophy. Not only has the name changed, but its fundamental structure is also different. The question is will this new change make it an uninterrupted tournament, unlike all these years? Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) hasn’t been able to keep KPL going consistently. The League…
Recently I was invited by Swami Muktidanandaji, head of Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysuru, to speak on Swami Vivekananda’s vision for India at the Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE), Yadavagiri. Produced below is an extract of that talk I thought of sharing with ‘Star of Mysore’ readers: The subject of my talk is indeed…
Like raindrops that keep falling through the foliage hours after the rain has stopped, I am coming back to an episode in the recently held (July 23-24) Mysuru Literature Festival. That was about the conversation that Ravi Joshi moderated with two journalists in their avatar as authors, nay biographers. They were Sagarika Ghose who wrote…
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