By C.P. Belliappa Courtesy our friends Pemmanda Jepu and Jemy Ganapathy, we spent four wonderful days at the Ooty Club, a place steeped in colonial history. The trophies, the silverware, the honour lists and the photographs of the ‘Masters of the Fox Hunt’ date back to early 1840s. During our stay, I got an opportunity…
By S. Kenneth Shishir How you react in the event of fire depends on how well you have prepared for a fire emergency. It is summer now and this is the time when most fires are caused due to dry vegetation and careless human attitude. Whenever there is a fire, it is very simple for…
Six wild elephants were electrocuted near Siddapur in Kodagu during June last year in two separate incidents. Many more elephants died in Kodagu in 2017 due to electrocution, gunshot wounds and drowning. Tracing the causes behind these deaths reveal that all the elephants had ventured out of the forests in search of food. Dwindling forest…
[Continued from yesterday] By N. Niranjan Nikam SOM: You made an interesting observation when talking about LTTE leader Prabhakaran, “He would have got ten times this money by signing an agreement with the Sri Lankan government. Or the Western mediators would have paid him to get the glory of solving the problem since any leader…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In the Ramayana, how did Bharat demonstrate to the people that he had rejected his mother’s ideology of capturing the throne through cunning, and how he wanted Ram to be king and spend his life serving as Ram’s regent? He did so by placing Ram’s footwear…
The job of the Police usually draws more brickbats than bouquets. Their position is always damned if you do and damned if you don’t. This is truer especially in today’s charged political atmosphere. But there are a few upright officers who irrespective of the pressures and pulls always manage to hold their own and to…
[Continued from Mar.5] Predictions for zodiacs in Chinese: SHEEP Year ahead: Quite a promising year with lot of life force energy to succeed in your pursuits especially for females. Focus on your instincts and skills and plan out your goals and aspirations to move ahead. Significant progress and advancement in your investment planning and career…
Mega Kuchipudi Festival (Akhila Karnataka Kuchipudi Nruthyotsav) at Mysuru city on Saturday, the 3rd of March, showcased renowned artistes at KSGH Music and Performing Arts University (morning sessions) and Jaganmohan Palace (evening sessions), which was the 10th edition by Natyasaraswathi, Bengaluru. Festival opened with a shraddanjali to late Guru Dr. Vempati Ravishankar with educative interesting…
By V. Shourabh Soppina Sannamma is no ordinary woman. She is a centenarian and still counting. All 105 years, she has been selling greens from the age of ten. The frail looking woman who is slightly hard of hearing, lives on Ramanuja Road in a house close to Yelethota (the old beetle farm) with her…
By N. Niranjan Nikam She was looking quite different from a distance. All I could see was a grey-haired lady, who was holding a plastic bag with a purse inside it, walking in the sprawling, beautiful, serene campus of Kalamandira. Curiosity got the better of me, as she went and sat near the steps of…
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