In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka talks about turtles and its behaviour Do turtles smell? Turtles can smell musty and fishy. Their habitats can become breeding grounds for bacteria and odour-causing organisms. They excrete in their surrounding water and thus the water gets very dirty very quickly and requires frequent cleaning to prevent bacteria build-up….
Nostalgically Speaking — 11: Kempaiah IPS: Officer Who Made A Difference – 2
October 4, 2020[Continued from Sept. 27] When Kempaiah came here as a Police Commissioner there were about six honourable predecessors in office, who quietly occupied an obscure corner of the Mounted Police building on Lalitha Mahal Palace Road and forgot about the fact that it was only a temporary arrangement. Each Commissioner thought, it was for the…
Inhumane
October 3, 2020On September 14, in the Hathras district of Western Uttar Pradesh a mother found her 19-year-old daughter lying naked in a field with her tongue protruding from her mouth. The young girl’s eyes were bloodshot and she was bleeding from her mouth. The mother then noticed bleeding in the groin area; she quickly covered her…
Fit India Freedom Run Drive
October 2, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There is no denying the fact that wherever we are in this wide world, we all first learn to write only with a pencil. It is a different matter that the pencils we use may be of many different kinds depending on what we use them for. But essentially…
SPB, a gentle giant
October 1, 2020By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A legend of music is no more. I really do not know if there is any other adjective to describe someone who has 40,000-plus songs in 14 languages to his credit. Many of these songs were sung free to help a friend in distress too. The pandemic, which…
Pet talk
September 30, 2020In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka speaks about chicken — its diet, playtime, illness & more By Maneka Gandhi How to play with a chick? It’s important to the health of your chick that she receives plenty of attention from you. Chicks are friendly and curious and can form a bond with you. In addition,…
Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa: A legend in his own lifetime among novelists —2
September 29, 2020[Continued from yesterday] We the readers of this book ‘Namma Bhyrappanavaru’ get to know what were the benefits derived by Dr. Bhyrappa’s readers, who had suffered the same kind of poverty, hardship, personal deprivations and humiliations like the characters in the story. ‘Bitthi’ was his autobiography and too melancholic to begin with and yet that…
Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa: A legend in his own lifetime among novelists —1
September 28, 2020Dr. M. S. Vijaya Haran. Who is that? I was rather surprised to receive a phone call from her about a month ago. Honestly, I had only heard of her name. Instantly she identified herself as the former Director of Akashvani, Mysore and one who recently published a book titled ‘Namma Bhyrappanavaru’ (Our Bhyrappa). She…
Nostalgically Speaking — 11: Kempaiah IPS: Officer Who Made A Difference-1
September 27, 2020While writing about L. Revannasiddaiah IPS, who was SP in Mysore District, I had said that I would be writing about another IPS Officer in this series whom I know, Kempaiah. Here I am recalling his days in Mysore and the invaluable service he rendered to the Police Department. It was he and he alone…
Puff and Prejudice
September 26, 2020The Sushant Singh Rajput case has slid from being just a murder investigation to a drug bust. One wonders if this investigation has ended up exposing middle-class India’s prejudice, hypocrisy and Victorian prudishness? To begin with Rhea Chakraborty, Sushant’s girlfriend, has been portrayed like a typical movie ‘Vampy-Villainess,’ the woman who drugged her lover to…
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