By V.N. Prasad Heartiest congratulations to the young Proteas who gathered all their might to register a 2-1 victory over the favourites, India. It was monumental effort in all departments of the game; turning the result into a ‘Nightmare’ for Indians; bruising their ego beyond belief; a shameful disposition considering the expectations; not only in…
Title: Srirama Bharatham Author: Dr. N.M. Girijapathi Year: 2021 Pages: 374 Price: Rs. 450 Publisher: Naimisha Publications, Mysuru By Prof. Chandrasekharaiah, Visiting Professor, Sri Basaveshwara Centre, Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies, UoM I heard in disbelief when Dr. N.M. Girijapathi first revealed that he has composed a narrative poem of epic proportions in Kannada based…
[Continued from December 13, 2021] By Girija Madhavan In the last year of my stay in “Hong Kong Island”, the city had become home to me. I still retain mental images of its physical beauty; Tiger Hill sloping down to the waves of Deep Water Bay, Chinese Junks and pleasure craft on the placid South…
Solid Waste Management and Beautifying Parks By Bhamy V. Shenoy and S. Shobana During the short period that Shilpa Nag served as Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner, two vision groups were formed despite the pandemic. Vision of the first one is to make Mysuru free of Single Use Plastic (SUP) through people-driven movement to have…
By R. Chandra Prakash What is in a name? When one thinks of the above adage, one is immediately reminded of the great English wordsmith William Shakespeare and his romantic Romeo and Juliet; and its oft quoted dialogue, “What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell…
By Dr. Bhagirath S. Naganath [Continued from yesterday] Acharya Patashala N. Ananthachar following his marriage moved to Bangalore for better prospects. Apart from odd jobs at Government offices and the like, he was sadly unable to make a decent living in Bangalore. Not one to lose hope, he set up a vegetable shop next to…
By Dr. Bhagirath S. Naganath [Continued from Jan. 8] T.S. Venkannayya’s inclusion into the faculty at Maharaja College was thanks to Prof. N.S. Subba Rao’s foresight. When B. Krishnappa passed away, there was a vacant Assistant Professor position at Maharaja College, Mysore. While many candidates were considered in the meeting, Subba Rao is credited with…
Poet Laureate Rabindranath Tagore described him as a Prince among Men! Trained under Alfred Marshall and a close friend of renowned economist Maynard Keynes, N. S. Subba Rao embodied the very best of the intellectual traditions of Cambridge University. He was a visionary educationist who served the University of Mysore as a Lecturer, Professor, Principal…
Text & photographs by Dr. Mahadeswara Swamy, Scientist Florals and foliage of several species of ornamental plants are associated with the festive season of Christmas. Apart from the well known, rather celebrated, ‘Christmas tree’ a wide variety of plants embrace “Christmas” in their common names e.g. Poinsettia, Holly, Mistletoe, Ivy, Christmas Cactus, Christmas Bells, Christmas…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Most Indians are familiar with Raja Ram Mohan Roy and his Brahmo Samaj and link it with 19th Century Hindu reformation. But very few know about Sahajanand Swami or the reforms instituted by his Swaminarayan sampradaya, even though both men lived in the same period of…
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