Articulate Festival, curated by Mysore B. Nagaraj, saw its 40th edition at Veene Seshanna Bhavana, Kuvempunagar, on Sunday (Sept. 15). This is a every 3rd Sunday of the month venture of the Articulate Trust for Arts — a platform created to showcase artistry of accomplished dancers of Classical dance forms of India. From the time…
Mysuru Dasara-2019: Suggestions
September 22, 2019A service that every Mysurean should extend By Ashvini Ranjan Brace yourself, Dasara is here! Probably two million visitors will visit the city and on a conservative estimate, a lakh of motor vehicles will enter the city. It is anybody’s guess that the city will choke and the Traffic Police will be at their wits…
Sweeping Gold
September 21, 2019By M.T. Yogesh Kumar [Pics. by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav] The gold-diggers of Unnao found nothing. In Mysuru, however, several men and women — almost 50 of them — find gold on jewellery streets, sewage drains, dirty alleys and every nook and corner of a dusty street. Every morning, a group of men and women make…
Since generations, they are lured by the shine
September 21, 2019By Vinay Karekura There is another group of coin-and-treasure hunters at Paschimavahini in Srirangapatna. The speciality of this group is that they go in search of places where people come to immerse the ashes of their loved ones and perform ‘Pitru Paksha’ rituals every year at the designated auspicious season. This group too hails from…
GOLD in the GUTTERS
September 21, 2019If the holy grail of medieval alchemists was turning lead into gold, how much more magical would it be to draw gold from grime-filled streets? Gold, as microscopic particles, has long been known to concentrate on streets dominated by jewellery shops. While there are a set of people who collect gold-laced mud from the roads…
From tribal hamlet to athletic track…
September 20, 2019By H.D. Ramesh A student from the Government School near the forest border and son of a very poor couple living in Tribal Hamlet (Girijana Haadi), Sachin, has brought laurels to the school and parents by being selected for the State-level Athletic Meet. Even teachers and parents of the taluk’s Kogilwadi Government Higher Primary School…
How we are motivated by Kama & propelled by Yama
September 19, 2019By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Shiva is called the destroyer because he destroys our desire — Kama, and he destroys death itself — Yama. Kama is associated with life, and Yama with death. Shiva destroys both the desire for life and the fear of death and thus he is the God…
Echoing the Mentor’s Style
September 19, 2019By Dr. Padmavathi Narasimhan Senior vocalist Sangeetha Kalanidhi T.V. Shankaranarayan performed on Sept.9 at 8th Cross, V.V. Mohalla. He was accompanied on violin by Nagai Sriram, mridanga by Tumkur B. Ravishankar and ghata by Sharat Kaushik. Shankaranarayan’s music is never stale. It is always lively and full of energy, which is transferred to the audience….
Jayanthi-Kumaresh most expressive and adept
September 18, 2019By Dr. Padmavathi Narasimhan On Sept.8 at 8th Cross Heritage Music Festival organised by Sri Prasanna Vidya Ganapathi Mandali Charitable (SPVGMC) Trust, couple Jayanthi Kumaresh and Kumaresh gave a duet with Ramana Hari Kumar on mridanga and Guruprasanna on kanjira. On the occasion, Kumaresh was honoured on his receiving the Sangeeta Natak Academy award this…
Kulbhushan Jadhav case at ICJ: An insider’s account
September 17, 2019Mysuru-born Kartikeya Garg, now a final year degree Law student of Christ University, Bengaluru, had an opportunity to undergo a month-long course on Public International Law at the famed International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague, Netherlands, in July this year. The selection was through competitive process. During his stay there, he was witness to…
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