By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As I said last Friday, our own Mysuru and distant Udaipur, which I visited recently with my family, seem like sister cities to me since they have both been seats of royalty and also because both have many Lakes and Palaces. It is a different matter that while we…
Repair Leaks, your New Year Resolution-2019
January 3, 2019By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC He lives with his wife in an ordinary rental apartment in the city of San Francisco. He never wears branded clothing; his glasses are trusted and aged. His watches are functional and unglamorous. He does not have his own car, his primary means of transportation is the bus…
Mysore in Brush-strokes
January 2, 2019By Girija Madhavan An oil-painting of a pastoral scene in green and gold, catches a ray of the morning sun where it hangs on a wall in our home. The workers in the field seem to come alive, the foliage moves in the morning breeze in contrast to the static hay ricks in the background….
Pet Talk
January 2, 2019By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka speaks about crimes against animals and the law enforcement agencies Where can we find annual crime reports against animals? Is there any formal database maintained? The annual crime reports are recorded under the National Crime Records Bureau in India. It is revised and updated annually and…
The Game of Throne in Karnataka: Will New Year see New Govt.?
December 31, 2018With Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and his family in Singapore, maybe for health check up or for a New Year’s holiday or for both, the political apple cart is likely to be overturned before the Parliamentary elections in the next five months. The JD(S) and the Congress Coalition Government came to power in the State,…
Kuchela, Lord Krishna’s friend
December 30, 2018By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Mysore We have seen hundreds of people who are friends of kings, rich people, Maharajas, administrators and others. But we are not familiar with an ordinary person like Kuchela having friendship with Lord Sri Krishna, who is supposed to have…
Porn Invasion
December 29, 2018Yippee… we are number three in the world ! First is USA, second is UK and third is India. Before we get too excited, no, we are not the third biggest economy in the world but the third biggest consumers of pornography in the world. Pornhub, the largest pornography website has released their website’s traffic…
Power of Aadhaar card: Fake claimants of agri loan waiver exposed
December 28, 2018The so-called ‘political intellectuals’ while dealing with matters concerning marginal farmers, labourers and the poor of the society should exhibit wisdom to protect the wealth of the nation so that the same could be appropriated to the poor and the needy as it happened in Karnataka loan waiver case. In my humble opinion, the present…
Why this Frenzied Rush?
December 28, 2018By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Our new Tourism Minister seems to be as excited with his first portfolio as a young boy would be with a new toy. In his excitement to do ‘something new’ he seems to be full of enthusiasm but miserably short of good ideas. And sadly, he seems to be…
Attachment Vs Detachment: A lovely thought by Sudha Murty
December 27, 2018By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC When my daughter, the elder of my two, wed and left home, I felt a part of me gone. With a daughter and a son, I know what both mean, differently. When she was in her teens, I felt as if she was my “physical extension” ! So…
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