By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The Buddhists and the Hindus share the idea of the land becoming sacred, when it is connected with the body of a holy being. Let us first hear the Buddhist story. We are told that when Buddha died, his body was cremated, and after the cremation,…
Rashtriya Yuva Sangeetotsava-2018
November 27, 2018By Dr. Rama V. Bennur November of 2018 was unique with regard to music. Apart from celebrating the Kannada Rajyotsava, three music conferences marked the beginning of this month. While two conferences were held in Bengaluru, one was held in Mysuru. Karnataka Ganakala Parishat’s annual music conference and Veenatattva Prakashika-2, the second international Veena conference…
CHANOYU: The Japanese Tea Ceremony
November 26, 2018By Girija Madhavan Chanoyu,” or “The Way of Tea” is a Japanese tradition of serving tea, a ritual evolved over centuries. It is the ceremonial presentation of “Matcha” or powdered green tea by a Tea Master [man or woman] to a small group of guests, generally in specified tea houses. With Zen Buddhist origins, it…
Sri Ramayana Darshanam: Story-telling by breaking Myths and Stereotypes
November 26, 2018– K. Apoorvananda When we think of Ramayana, the only thing that comes to our minds is the obedient son in Rama with a face ever so handsome like the morning sun and a villain named Ravana with ten heads and all the magic that happens in between. It is a totally different kind of…
Vibhitakah: The wonder tree of herbal medicine
November 25, 2018Text & photographs by Dr. Mahadeswara Swamy Scientist Mob: 97429-91057 e-mail: [email protected] Trees have been an important source of medicines. Several parts of innumerable trees have been in use in folklore and traditional medicines from the days of yore and form part of Indian medicinal systems. In reference ‘Vibhitakah’ known as ‘Thare mara’ in Kannada is…
Understanding Street Vendors An ethnographic approach
November 24, 2018By 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…
Gadichowka Government School celebrating centenary tomorrow
November 23, 2018Nalwadi 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….
Why you shouldn’t miss Khadi Utsav
November 22, 2018By 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…
Second Edition of Mysuru Literature Festival: Late Wadiyar had plans to open art auction house
November 21, 2018This 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…
Second Edition of Mysuru Literature Festival: Panellists trade ‘wild’ barbs on tiger Avni’s death
November 21, 2018[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…















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