By Prof. P.K. Misra Street vendors in a growing modern Indian city is an interesting and challenging phenomenon as it throws up many significant questions for which we do not have informed explanations. There is hardly any systematic and reliable data on them. For the people whom they serve they are customary strangers. For urban…
Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar started Government Schools in State By N. Niranjan Nikam In 1915, the government passed an order asking the Head Masters of public schools to admit Dalit students with a view that no pupil should be denied admission to government school or schools maintained out of public funds on the ground of caste….
By Ramesh Kebbehundi You can trace the journey of a thread — Khadi or the Fabric of Freedom — and at the same time wear clothes made out of it at the ongoing State-level Khadi Utsav, an exhibition-cum-sale organised by Karnataka State Khadi and Village Industries Board at J.K. Grounds in city. The mega display…
This session also was one of the eagerly awaited ones as it was about our own city titled “A class apart – Heritage of the Royal City” in which the panellists included R.G. Singh, Secretary of Ramsons Kala Pratishtana, Eric Sakellaropoulous, an inlay expert with his own factory and Michael Ludgrove, who is curating art…
[Continued from yesterday] If there was one session that everyone was looking forward to at the Second Mysuru Literature Festival, organised by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs 2015 on Sunday, it was on wildlife called “Trails of Free Spirits.” And sure enough the distinguished panel all steeped in wildlife experience did…
Tourmaline has the ability to purify the human energy, protect from negative influences and allows for a fast and efficient energy purification. It also aids in releasing stress and reduce levels of uneasiness and anxiety. The colour green in Feng Shui is said to be the colour of growth and healing. Adapting this colour in…
By U.B. Acharya To the golf playing addicts as well as to the non-golf playing enthusiasts, September end was a visual treat on live TV. In Paris, 24 of the world’s best golfers from Europe and USA fought very hard for three days and finally Europe came as deserving winners of the Ryder Cup. Before…
Prof. G. Hemanth Kumar’s Quiet Confidence If there was one name whispered in the corridors of the Crawford Hall for the post of the Vice-Chancellor of University of Mysore, even as the delay in appointment for the full-time VC continued, then it was that of Prof. G. Hemanth Kumar. People knowing him closely always felt…
By Ramesh Kebbehundi [Pics. by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav] Most people can identify a Police Officer by the official uniform. When citizens on a busy street are in need of help, they scan the crowds of pedestrians looking for the distinctive uniform of a Police Officer. Criminals usually curb their unlawful behaviour when they spot a…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In the Vedas, long before people knew about Gods such as Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma, there was a story of how the God of Heaven committed incest with the Goddess of Dawn, his daughter. Now this is called the problem of primal incest, which is found…
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