While the temperature was 34 in the corridors and was the same even with fans inside the Veene Seshanna Bhavana, Ganabharathi, Kuvempunagar, the lights shining bright on dancers on stage raised probably to 35, yet during the 34th edition of Articulate Festival curated by Mysore B. Nagaraj for Articulate Trust for Arts, the four classical…
SKYWATCH: Brightest Supermoon tonight
March 21, 2019By Dr. S.A. Mohan Krishna, Amateur Astronomer Tonight (Mar.21), Indians will be privileged to witness the spectacular, biggest, resplendent, and brightest full Moon as it will pass by Earth at a distance of 3,58,246 kms. This is known as lunar perigee and a normal lunar perigee averaging a distance of 357,492 kms happens once every…
Designing the Surya Namaskar
March 21, 2019By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Surya, the Sun God, plays an important role in Indian mythology. In some of the earliest images of Hindu and Buddhist mythology, Surya rides on a chariot with his wives or female archers, who shoot arrows, driving away the darkness of the night. In Vedic mythology,…
Kodava Heritage Centre deserted
March 20, 2019Plans on to revive the unique Centre at Madikeri after Lok Sabha Elections By Prasad Sampigekatte While a unique Kodava Cultural Centre on a sprawling 15-acre land at the sleepy and picturesque Balugodu, 6 km from Virajpet in Kodagu is attracting Kodava community members in hordes for marriages and other social, cultural and community gatherings,…
Values, customers mean a lot to us, says Excelsoft MD D. Sudhanva
March 19, 2019Very few industries have flourished in Mysuru as the city is considered not that conducive to economic growth. In such a scenario, to set up a software unit at a time when hardly anyone had heard about the word ‘Software’ takes some guts to do. This is exactly what the low-key, publicity shy and Mysuru-homegrown…
Paytm maadu…
March 18, 2019Scan-and-pay mode of transaction facilitating digital payments even in local and street markets By V. Shourabh There has been overwhelming response from India’s smaller cities and towns for online payments. Kirana store owners, vegetable and fruit vendors, roadside vendors, food stalls, pharmacies small-time pushcart soda vendors and many more merchants now accept Paytm. Aligned with…
TRIBUTE: Swami Sureshanandaji – A modern combination of both Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda
March 18, 2019By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam It was January 1985. I was sitting with Swami Achalanandaji, a monk who was then living at the Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE) in Mysuru and discussing the qualities of an ideal student and that of an ideal teacher (Guru). Swamiji was trying to explain to me Shankara’s…
Boost up business
March 18, 2019In Feng Shui, every physical object around us produces a corresponding effect, either good or bad. The smallest change in these objects’ arrangements can spell the difference between success and failure, between a bustling business and a doomed enterprise, between a happy marriage and one riddled with irritants, between long life and bad health. Aligning…
Musings on old age: Old man is falling down… long stay in bed likely !
March 17, 2019By R.S. Krishnaswamy Nineteen years ago, I made a trip to Chennai to see my uncle R.K. Narayan, even though the doctors had specified 4 or 5 days for him to live. He was ever fresh and very “alive” ! at an age of 95. He took a good look at me and said in…
Modern South India: Past and modern story of South India and of Southern Culture
March 17, 2019This book is the work of Rajmohan Gandhi, a Historian, Biographer and a Prolific Writer. He has an illustrious pedigree. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji), freedom fighter and the first Governor General of India. He has earlier written the biographies of freedom fighters like Sardar Patel, Khan Abdul Gaffar…
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