The Glass House at Kuppanna Park, which was to be ready by mid- February, will likely be open to public by the end of February or first week of March. The Glass House has been under construction for almost over a year on the lines of the one at Lalbagh in Bengaluru. The glass fitting…
While all eyes are on the 58.8 feet tall monolithic statue of Lord Bahubali or Gommateshwara in Shravanabelagola for Mahamastakabhisheka held once in 12 years, there are other Bahubalis also in Karnataka and some of them need urgent conservation efforts. This Weekend Star Supplement takes the reader on a spiritual journey of some of the…
Over 300 Doliwallas are coming to Shravanabelagola from Shikharji to carry the devotees up the Vindhyagiri for them to have darshan of Lord Bahubali and witness the ongoing 88th Mahamastakabhisheka. As of now, there are 20 designated local Doliwallas employed by the Shravanabelagola Jain Mutt who have been doing this business of carrying devotees since…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Woh toh Radha ka bhi Shyam, woh toh Meera ka bhi Shyam, is a popular Bollywood song from the 1970s. In this song, we are told that Krishna loves Radha as much as he loves Meera. The problem here is that Radha is a mythical character…
By Battakalanda Poovaiah Muthanna, Retd. Superintending Engineer Why Railway project is detrimental for Kodagu district and how it may prove fatal to the forests of Kodagu, its environment and its biodiversity; and its further effects on rainfall? The proposed Railway project in the thick forest areas of Kodagu district will have further disasters to the environment…
By Prof. B. Sheik Ali, Founder Vice-Chancellor of Mangalore and Goa Universities One of the suggestions I offered in the very first meeting of the University Centenary Committee in 2014 was the establishment of Gandhian Peace Chair in the University. Subsequently I prepared a Project Report in this behalf and submitted it to the University on…
By Radhika Jeyaraman Shiva Thathva Natya Vaibhavam,’ the dance ballet presented by the dancers of Sri Uma Maheshwara Nruthya Kalakshethra at Kalamandira recently, portrayed the nuances of Bharatanatyam in a very expressive and exhaustive manner. The wonderful expressions and gestures with synchronised steps brought out the ‘navarasas’ in all their splendour and was a cynosure…
Keep your office lobby and working desk area well lit at all times because light bring the Yang energy that causes good fortune to grow and accumulate. When you can learn to balance the energy in your work environment, your own energy will be in harmony. When that happens, all of the things you want…
By Girija Madhavan I have lived in many houses abroad before returning to settle down in my hometown of Mysuru in 1995. Each was a temporary home, a haven, claiming a place in my memories and sentiment; some in alien land and others in friendlier ambiance. But the house that remains in my mind as…
By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Pics by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav Learning from bitter lessons from last year’s forest inferno where a young forest guard was charred to death in Bandipur, the Forest Department this time has strengthened its fire-fighting capabilities to combat forest fires that tend to ravage large swathes of forest during summer. This Weekend…
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