The Karnataka Government’s recent handling of the Bill mandating reservations for Kannadigas in the private sector has been nothing short of chaotic. On Monday, the Bill was approved. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah proudly announced it. By Wednesday, it was scrapped, only to be slated for further discussion on Thursday. This flip-flopping is not how…
Waiting for Donald Trump -1
July 19, 2024It was a great escape, a providential escape from sure death for Donald Trump. An assassin’s bullet just grazed his right ear. There was blood. There was evil. It is believed Democracy does not draw blood to choose its leader, ruler. But unfortunately it does draw blood like it happened with Donald Trump last Saturday…
Time to remember prophetic words of former Mysuru DC
July 15, 2024Among animals man is considered a sapient animal with five sensory organs and also a sixth sense. One may call it by multiple names — gut feeling, omen, intuition or power of prophesy. Some people have the power to foresee what is to come either by observing the past events connected to a subject matter…
Dr. M.M. Basavaraju An Impressive & Admirable Innings
July 14, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk and Dr. Basavaraju has made this his motto in life. My last two articles were about two doctors and two events that destiny brought them face to face, which had two vastly varying outcomes. Yes, destiny is unescapable, which…
MUDA Protest: The Stench of Hypocrisy
July 13, 2024While calling for a CBI investigation and demanding Siddaramaiah’s resignation on moral grounds, will the BJP and JD(S) first take the moral high ground by suspending their own senior MLAs, who were MUDA members in 2021 under whose watch this scam occurred? Rohini Sindhuri, the former Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru District, had penned a letter…
Modi the PM who walks on the razor’s edge -2
July 10, 2024A book on Modi as a Leader tells it all [Continued from yesterday] The author of the book, Dr. Balasubramaniam (he is a Medical Doctor) aptly describes Modi as a visionary leader because only such leaders can take risk and try new things. And Modi does take risk and try new schemes, new laws. Much…
Modi the PM who walks on the razor’s edge -1
July 9, 2024A book on Modi as a Leader tells it all A leader must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.” — APJ Abdul Kalam, Scientist and former President of India. The two-day Mysuru Literature Festival-2024 excellently…
Musings on writers of Indian History
July 5, 2024Right-wing historians have arrived! I have noticed an increase in the number of writers of History of India — Social history, economic history, religious history and political history — after 2014 when Modi Government came to power. There was a perception that the old history of India written by the Islamic, Mughal and Colonial historians…
First Avatar of Rahul as LoP
July 2, 2024As Rahul takes up his first Constitutional post, I am sure that he will be feeling the weight of the realisation that he will be judged no more for whose son he is, but for whether he can be the Opposition Leader India deserves. —Philip Mathew, Editor, The Week Attention Hindus of India. Rahul Gandhi,…
A medical doctor remembers his life’s journey
June 30, 2024Mysore Literary Association (MLA) invited Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, city’s medical practitioner and also a regular columnist of Star of Mysore, to deliver a talk on ‘Beginning my life in a White Coat’ at Kalpa Kshetra auditorium in Vijayanagar 4th Stage on June 23, 2024. Curiously it was a sequel to good doctor’s earlier talk…
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