By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There was a time, not very long ago, when a walk was simply a walk. You stepped out into the evening air because your legs asked for it or because the mind needed a little unburdening or because the mango tree at the end of the road was worth another look…
Naturalists Arun Urs and Namratha Urs with Professors and students of Maharaja’s College, Yuvaraja’s College and JSS College during the butterfly walk around Lalitha Mahal Hotel area recently. Butterflies play an important role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem and are the second largest pollinators after bees. They are also bio-indicators, that is the health of…
… from a Princely State By R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana H.H. Chamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur (CRW) was officially adopted by H.H. Krishnaraja Wadiyar III on 18.6.1865. His adoption was ratified by the British overlords on 16.4.1867 and it was during the silver jubilee of the ratification of his adoption that he instituted the Order…
Padma Shri S. Subbaraman, 96, a retired Superintending Archaeological Chemist with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), recalls the exhilaration of August 15, 1947, when he was a 17-year -old Intermediate student in Coimbatore.Now settled in Mysuru, his remarkable ASI career included conservation and restoration work at the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, Ajanta Caves, Lepakshi…
Develops model design for currency notes of Rs. 10 and Rs. 20 denominations By Bapu Lingaraj Urs Mysuru: For the first time in India, polymer (plastic) currency notes are set to undergo field trials, with the Reserve Bank of India’s note printing unit in Mysuru playing a key role. Significantly, the model design for the…
We got independence for this nation, but still many things which are of fundamental importance are yet to happen in this country. Two generations of people have already passed their lives, but still fundamental requirements like nourishment, health, ecology and education are yet to be taken care of for most people in the country. Independence…
Riots and the bloodbath of hatred The trains carrying refugees between the two nations would arrive with corpses, their passengers killed en route. They were called blood trains. The soil had soaked so much blood that it was believed that even the fruits on the trees seemed to have the taste of blood. am the…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The term Chandala, referring to the “lowest of the low” in Brahmin lore, appears a few times in the Vedic literature itself. It is essentially absent from the Rigveda Samhita and emerges only in the later strata of the corpus — the later Samhitas, Brahmanas and…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There is a particular kind of democracy that flourishes in India without ever appearing in any political science textbook and I have had the privilege of observing it from two rather different vantage points over the years, first as a resident of an apartment complex governed by its own welfare association…
World Elephant Day Today Mysuru: World Elephant Day, observed globally on Aug. 12 (today), seeks to create awareness about the protection, welfare and conservation of elephants. However, in Karnataka, particularly the old Mysuru region, human-elephant conflict continues to pose a serious challenge, with both humans and elephants losing their lives. India is home to the…
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