By R.G. Singh Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana The fabled elephant parade of Mysore during royal celebrations like weddings, birthdays, welcoming the British dignitaries and, of course, the Dasara celebrations are well-documented in black and white photographs found in several Mysore households. They have also been published in well-known magazines abroad. However, there are quite a…
Stop cluttering Dasara to make money IN BLACK AND WHITE BY VIKRAM MUTHANNA Every few years, just before Dasara, someone gets a bright idea, which is, “Ah, let’s add one more event to Mysuru Dasara.” This year, it is Kambala, the spectacular buffalo race of Coastal Karnataka. The Kambala is undoubtedly a magnificent tradition and deserves to be celebrated, but… not in Mysuru Dasara. The…
Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation The Gita, the Bible, the Koran, whatever they wrote are like this — one day a man went to the beach and the early morning breeze on the beach was so fantastic, he became blissful. Whenever you experience something really beautiful, you want to share it with somebody, isn’t it? So this man wanted to share…
Fleeting Thoughts By Ashvini Ranjan In my eight decades on this earth, I have acquired one priceless piece of wisdom. If you are desperately looking for a doctor, investment adviser, chartered accountant or computer engineer, you can easily find one. But if you urgently need a plumber, electrician, carpenter or dhobi, they instantly become rarer than a tiger in the wild. The moment the maid doesn’t turn up,…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In the Upanishads, the word brahmin is about inner realisation. In Dharma-shastra, the word brahmin is about birth status and purity. The early Upanishads were composed between 600 BC and 200 BC, while the early Dharma-shastra were composed between 200 BC and 500 AD. The former is more spiritual. The latter is more legal. Strict…
The Lighter Side By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There is a peculiar affliction sweeping through humanity with a virulence that would have alarmed even the most seasoned epidemiologist and I speak not of any virus that a laboratory has yet catalogued. I speak of Chronic Busyness Syndrome, a condition in which the sufferer is perpetually occupied, permanently rushed and constitutionally unavailable,…
Mysuru: The Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam has entered the crucial Southwest Monsoon season of 2026 with one of its poorest water positions in recent years, raising concerns over the sluggish progress of rainfall in Cauvery catchment areas of Kodagu. According to official data from Cauvery Neeravari Nigama Limited (CNNL) on June 28, 2026, the reservoir held 11.233 tmcft of water at…
By R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana God created the Maharajas to provide a spectacle to humanity,” wrote Rudyard Kipling. And what a royal spectacle they were, their lives, the stuff dreams are made of, their alliances, mis-alliances and, of course, their fabulous and fabled weddings. This stunning black and white photograph of fourteen-year- old…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD With its most recent announcement that the holding of an Indian Passport cannot be considered as proof of our Indian Citizenship, our Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has created a legal paradox, which may soon snowball into a situation akin to the opening of the proverbial Pandora’s Box. Hitherto, the possession of this presumably…
Three days ago, news broke of an Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on the residence of an Additional Excise Commissioner. Almost at the same time, a bureaucrat’s wife on her Instagram page posted her pics carrying a designer handbag that probably cost half of her husband’s annual salary. For a fleeting moment, I was envious and muttered, “I wish I were a bureaucrat…
Mysuru’s Bunty-Babli wanted by Delhi PoliceSeptember 20, 2026
FIR at T. Narasipur against ex-MP SimhaSeptember 20, 2026
Closed subways get Dasara faceliftSeptember 20, 2026
Kempegowda Circle flyover projectSeptember 20, 2026
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