Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is the new-age Hindu Saint with his sprawling Ashram near Coimbatore at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, sanctified with a temple for Yoga Guru Patanjali, the originator of Yoga for those living in Bharat following Sanatana Vedic Dharma. Tomorrow is International Day of Yoga (IDY). There are also temples for Shiva…
A journalist is a grumbler, a giver of advice, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” —Napoleon Bonaparte Last Sunday, 12.6.2022, when I read veteran journalist TJS George, who wrote in his weekly column Point of View that it was his last column under #Point of…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A recent news “Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel to be privatised: Cabinet meeting called to decide this decision” was music to my ears. With elections coming up next year, I really do not know if the Government would bite the bullet and do take the bold step to privatise…
By TJS George All good things must come to an end. This column started appearing as an Express feature in 1997. It has been going on without a break for a quarter century. That is a long run, a real long run. A year’s 52 weeks multiplied by 25 means that a jaw-dropping 1,300 instalments…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A headline in Star of Mysore two days ago, proclaimed that those of us wishing to travel between Mysuru and Bengaluru along the new highway that is now getting ready for us, should get ready to pay anywhere between Rs. 200 to Rs. 250 as travel toll between the…
On May 27, Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was cleared of all charges due to insufficient evidence in the infamous “cruise ship drug bust” case. Immediately after the verdict, Sanjay Gupta, a film-maker tweeted, “So Aryan Khan is and was innocent, says Bombay High Court. Who compensates for what he went through, his family…
This morning I saw in one Kannada newspaper, a news originating from New Delhi, about the election of India’s President and Vice-President as the term of incumbents will soon come to an end and the election to these two offices must be held before July 24th. The BJP Central Government is now engaged in a…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Having been a practicing physician for more than thirty five years or so, I was doing a reasonably comfortable job, having the sense to cut down on my work load as I went along my way and my hair went along its way, from black to grey and then…
The Karnataka Government has decided to take the Ordinance route to introduce the contentious Anti-Conversion Bill. Congress party has opposed it. Do we need this law? Yes, but a tempered version. Today, religious conversion has nothing to do with faith; it has to do with vote-banks. Mahatma Gandhi recognised this very early and said, “Today,…
Musings on pada puja, a role-model of a government officer and Bhagavadgita A few days back I visited a friend’s place in city on learning that a revered Swamiji would be visiting his house for pada puja. A family devotion but I was invited. I had seen a couple of pada puja (ritual worshipping of…
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