As the city soaks in joy, celebrating Christmas and looking forward to welcome New Year, District Administration has organised various events as part of Mysuru Winter Festival. Now, as an add-on to this winter chill, city-based Niranthara Foundation has organised a five-day theatre fest ‘Niranthara Ranga Utsava-2017’ at Vanaranga, the open stage in Rangayana premises…
Annual Day celebrations at Schools, Colleges
December 25, 2017Mahajana Public School ‘Kala Sambhrama,’ the 14th Annual Day was celebrated at the School premises recently. On the occasion, various cultural programmes were presented and School Magazine Souvenir ‘Roshni’ was released by Dr. T Vijayalakshmi Muralidhar, Secretary, Mahajana Education Society (MES), R Vasudeva Murthy, President, MES, chief guest Arjun Devaiah Theethamada, yesteryear’s Sprint King of…
TREE FACTS: Pink Lapacho, the winter delight
December 24, 2017Text & photographs by Dr. Mahadeswara Swamy, Scientist Mob: 97429-91057; e-mail: [email protected] With the onset of winter many a deciduous tree shed their old leaves followed by fresh growth of foliage and flowers. This phenomenon of rejuvenation begins during December in many ornamental trees lining the avenues of Mysuru. Among these ‘Pink Lapacho’ is the first…
An informative and illuminative session
December 24, 2017By Dr. Padmavathi Narasimhan The morning of December 4 brought three interesting papers at the JSS Music Conference. The first paper was on the great poet P.T. Narasimhachar, who has created history in the world of Kannada literature and music. The paper focused on the rare ragas created by Narasimhachar, which is an immense and…
Winter’s Tale
December 23, 2017By V. Shourabh A sad tale is best for winter, says William Shakespeare in ‘The Winter’s Tale.’ This Weekend Star Supplement, however, is about winter and its happy times. It is about winter and its attached strings of festivities where people love to snooze under the blanket in chilly morns or relish hot chilli bajjis…
Tulu Nadu’s Bhootas
December 21, 2017By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist For the past 2,000 years, maybe even earlier, the Tuluva people have lived in Tulu Nadu, the coastal kingdom of Alva Kheda, once ruled by the Aupas, referred to in the writings of ancient Roman mariners. The symbol of this kingdom, with twin fishes, is very…
Anne Knapp’s journey from Theatre to Zoo-keeping-3
December 20, 2017By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] SOM: I believe you train gorillas and elephants. Anne Knapp: Yes, I train gorillas. I was only a keeper of elephants in Dallas, Texas and I was on free contact like they do here. So, I would walk along with the animal. Now in the United States you…
Healthy Shades of Palm Tree
December 20, 2017Karpatti – The Healing Jaggery Mysuru: A group of about 8 to 10 men from Tamil Nadu have been selling palm jaggery (Karpatti) at various junctions and places in Mysuru. They belong to Kayathar town in Thoothkudi district along the National Highway 7 between Tirunelveli and Kovilpatti. They have been selling ‘Panna Karpatti’ and ‘Sukku…
Educative morning sessions at the music conference
December 20, 2017By Dr. Padmavathi Narasimhan The morning sessions at the 24th JSS Annual Music Conference were both educative and entertaining. On 3rd December morning, Mysore V. Subramanya gave a lecture-demonstration on ‘The Glory of Jhanjuti.’ He described how the name came into existence. Pinakapani named it jhanjuti. ‘Raganidhi’ describes it as jinjuti. It is also known…
Mysuru Zoo is spotless, says US Zoo-keeper Anne Knapp-2
December 19, 2017By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] Star of Mysore (SOM): What were the other things that impressed you at Mysuru Zoo? Anne Knapp: Plastic-free zones. No one has taken it as seriously as Mysuru Zoo. When you enter the Zoo they check your bags and if you have plastic bags, they put a barcode…
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