One afternoon in the year 1979-80, a surprise visitor came to my office to meet me. It was Prof. G.T. Narayana Rao, known to all, including his students, as GTN. Both of us were meeting each other in Mysore for the first time after we parted, he as teacher and I as his NCC student….
A week ago, the city Police arrested a car driver for deliberately blocking the way of an ambulance carrying an aged person who suffered a heart attack. The patient, 85-year-old Chandrashekar Acharya, was being brought to Narayana Multispecialty Hospital in Mysuru when a Hyundai i20 car moving ahead of the ambulance started driving in a…
By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Mysore It was my good fortune to have met Vajpayee twice in New Delhi. He had not yet become the Prime Minister but was an MP. My first meeting with him was formal and not important. The second meeting was…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past two weeks I have written about interesting history of the two centuries-old Lushington Bridge across the River Cauvery at Shivanasamudra and how it is now being restored in a most sloppy and disgraceful way. Unless some of us who happen to be heritage-conscious citizens, step in…
A few days back I received a book titled ‘Random Thoughts of an Oilman,’ by U.B. Acharya, obviously the oilman — one who worked for oil companies. In these days of COVID-19 and the consequential isolation, nay quarantine, specially for aged, the book seemed a relief to pass time. Since the author’s age and mine…
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells how to maintain good health of cows and deworming By Maneka Gandhi How often should cattle be dewormed? Young animals should preferably be dewormed every month using a suitable anthelmintic. Older animals can be dewormed at 4-6 months’ intervals. A deworming schedule is very crucial for calves because…
By T.J.S. George There was a storm in the Congress teacup last week. It re-established two facts. One, that there is a section of Congressmen who now see the Gandhi family’s hold on the party as unhealthy. Two, that they are not strong enough to prevail. Hangers-on of the family, benefiting from being hangers-on, dominate…
Among my close friends during early years of Star of Mysore and Mysooru Mithra till about 1994 was H.S. Shankaralingegowda. I came to know him when he barged into my office, an angry youngman in a white bushcoat tucked into his well pressed beige-coloured pants well held in place with a black belt and wearing…
Kamala Harris is the Vice-Presidential candidate pick for the Democratic Party in the United States which is going in for elections in November. And the moment it was announced, as usual we Indians went gaga. No sooner was Kamala Harris named the Democrats’ VP pick, villagers in Painganadu, Harris’ mother’s village, in Tamil Nadu, put…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Picking up the thread of my last week’s narration about the historic Lushington Bridge at Shivanasamudra and my dismay at its botched up restoration in the present era, I would like to take you back by two centuries and give you some refreshingly different and very interesting information from…
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