As announced yesterday in this column, I am reproducing what I wrote about K. Srikantiah in Star of Mysore in 1990. Hey Ram! Hello Ram! We may be rid of the Ramayana serial on TV but not the annual feature of Ramanavami — Lord Rama’s birthday. I don’t know why Ramanavami is linked to music…
Let me also remember K. Srikantiah, lest we forget a GREAT Music Patron The last time I remembered Lord Shri Ram was when I went to Ayodhya in September, 2024 to see the newly-built Ram Temple in the place where earlier Mughal invader Babur had built the Babri Masjid. God Sees the Truth, But Waits!…
Leo Tolstoy’s merchant story, told by my class teacher, illustrates the very sad true story of a villager we are all reading in news today… By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past three days, we are all reading in the papers, a very sad and gut-wrenching story of how a miserably poor and…
At the entrance of Star of Mysore office hangs a framed quote by Leo Tolstoy: “If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people’s pain, you are a human being.” When I walked into the office yesterday and saw the news report about a man named Suresh, a haunting question followed me…
“Now, in 2025 we find a new America under Donald Trump solving the problem of Immigration and Birthright Citizenship. I had found a need for this Trump approach to these two issues in 1992 itself, when I visited America. In the new world order, where globalisation impacts every country, it is best to adopt the…
Janata Janardan is watching As a common man, I was intrigued to read about the case of the authorities finding burnt stacks of cash in the outhouse of Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court. According to Arghya Sengupta, Research Director of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, that is held in high esteem for…
The recent fire in the out-house of Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court and the subsequent photographs of burnt cash bundles, followed by calls for judicial reform, takes one back to April 25, 2016. That was the day the 43rd Chief Justice of India, Tirath Singh Thakur Pogali, broke down in front of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It has been announced that a Heritage Museum is being proposed to be set up at our old Deputy Commissioner’s Office, under the Central Government’s Swadesh Darshan Scheme. This certainly seems like a very great and welcome idea if not for any other reason than that it is most…
It appears Karnataka is no longer run by politicians, but by honeybees — and not the kind that make honey, but the kind that trap you in it. Co-operation Minister K.N. Rajanna recently claimed that 48 MLAs in the State have been honey trapped and demanded an investigation. Clearly, the bees are buzzing and someone’s…
It is beyond one’s understanding why no Kodava Samaja, Akhila Kodava Samaja or Federation of Kodava Samajas evinced interest in a project that would be their pride as inheritors of their sacred land Kodagu. In Democracy all are equal, but in Indian Democracy those belonging to a major religion and caste are more equal and…
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