Nobody likes individual jasmine flowers unless it’s for puja rituals. But it is a woman’s desire to wear jasmine when they are stringed as it adds richness and beauty to their long and shiny manes, especially when in traditional attires. There is a set of dedicated women at Veeranagere who dexterously string jasmine and so…
By K. Vijaya Kumar, Former Jt. Director of Information & Publicity The 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis recently asked men “to be less macho (aggressively masculine) and listen more to women.” The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson at a men-only UN Meeting in 2014 had said: “We…
By S. Kenneth Shishir Circa 1985: A housewife desperately waits in front of her house for a knife sharpener who carries the cycle-wheel-powered machine that has a round and rotating stone slab. She is getting impatient as she has to finish her cooking and her iron knife is not sharp enough to cut vegetables and…
By B.N. Ramya Whatever Kannada theatre has achieved today is the result of the revolution brought about 50 years ago by Padma Shri B.V. Karanth. Say THEATRE and MUSIC, one amongst the foremost names that strikes one’s mind is Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth, who with his innovative use of music made it big in modern Indian…
By V. Shourabh While the fast-paced world has resorted to readily available and packaged consumable products, there is one shop in Mysuru which prepares fresh oil from raw materials. The oil mill which is situated on Narayana Shastry Cross Road (between D.D. Urs Road and More Supermarket) swells with several customers who bring in nuts…
By S. Kenneth Shishir While most people of his age and below prefer to sleep till the sun rises, 70-year-old M. Lalith Kumar Kothari Jain, a resident of Thyagaraja Road in K.R. Mohalla in city, wakes up at 4 am every day and gets ready to feed the poor, the needy and the strays. He…
By Arathi Menon Apple lives the life of a socialite. Her closet is stocked with the latest of grooming devices, perfumes and shampoos. She visits a parlour every two weeks for some oil massage and grooming, meets her buddies at the monthly meet of her social club at a park not far from her home…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist One of Vishnu’s forms is Mohini, the enchantress. As Krishna, Vishnu becomes Madan-mohan, he who enchants even Cupid. This winsome lover plays the flute and invites Radha to dance with him on the banks of Yamuna in the bower known as Vrindavana. Their romance is rediscovered….
By Dr. Padmavathi Narasimhan Rangapravesha of R. Rakshita was organised at Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha, Mysuru, on the 28th of January. Senior art patron K.V. Murthy, musician and music critic Dr. Padmavathi Narasimhan, senior dance teacher K. Rama Murty Rao, Vasudeva Vitthal of Vijaya Vittala Educational Institutions and Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy were the guests for…
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