In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka talks about turtles, their habitat & compatibility with fish By Maneka Gandhi What kind of an aquarium can I provide my turtle? It’s NOT your turtle. You are in illegal possession and I suggest that you make every effort to release it before someone tips off the wildlife authorities…
Is Mysuru a tourist city? Yes. Is tourism crucial to our city’s economy? Absolutely. So do we need Heli-Tourism to enhance it? Why not? But… While tourist attractions are needed they cannot be and should not be developed at the cost of nature, especially when nature itself can be a tourist attraction. Our Tourism Minister,…
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka describes about tick fever in dogs, its treatment By Maneka Gandhi My dog is sneezing. Does he have a cold? There are many reasons that cause sneezing in a dog, which can vary from irritation in their nose, dust, house hold products, perfume, pollen, allergy from flea bite or…
By T.J.S. George We are so proud of our freedom that we don’t want even Covid to interfere with it. We mix and mingle with abandon, thanks to our freedom. Figures show a spiralling of cases as the second wave of the pandemic is sweeping across the land. The situation is so serious that the…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Starting from the days of my early childhood, till as late as the late seventies, we had this tradition of listening to our collection of records, first on our hand wound gramophone and later on the much newer electric record players that we acquired as time went by. Whenever…
Farrokh Khudamurad Irani, Farrokh K. Irani (or F.K. Irani) for we Mysureans, Founder of the famous Ideal Jawa Motorcycle Factory at Yadavagiri, Mysuru, was an iconic Mysurean of his days since 1960. He passed away in October 1985 but happily there are Mysureans who revere his memory. I discovered the proof of this sentiment when…
By T.J.S. George When religion is linked with patriotism, it can drive people to extremes. Not long ago an Islamist group in Somalia, the Al Shabaad, banned samosas in the country. The reasoning was that the triangular shape of the samosa was a trick to spread the trinity concept of Christianity. We haven’t reached that…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD After I wrote my last article about the two antique gramophone records that I received as a gift from my schoolmate Mukesh and his wife Madhu, I have been inundated by letters, messages and phone calls from friends, acquaintances and complete strangers too. Some articles that I write have…
In most nations, when a good citizen sees a Policeman it arouses a sense of security; here it arouses fear and distrust — Mumbai Police have shown why. The Mumbai Police might have destroyed the Mumbai underworld but then a new one was born… born from amongst its own ranks. This is not just a…
By T.J.S. George We have two Indias. One is dirt poor. The other is filthy rich. The world loves this second India. The luxury market in this India is estimated at Rs. 37,500 crore. The culture around it is such that watches costing between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 1.5 lakh quickly went out of fashion…
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