Mysuru is slowly but steadily becoming an autocross hotspot. Being home to renowned rallyists including Lohitt Urs, Palguna Urs, Abdul Wahid and N. Prasad, the city has been making its own name in the Indian Racing Circuit. Recently, Automotive Sports Club of Mysuru had organised Mysore Gravel Fest – 2017 that attracted over 70 participants…
“It is a rare honour to inaugurate Dasara”: Prof. K.S. Nissar Ahmed
August 18, 2017Noted Kannada poet of Navya Movement and Padmashree Awardee Kokkare Hosahalli Sheikh Haider Nissar Ahmed popular known as Prof. K.S. Nissar Ahmed will inaugurate this year’s Dasara celebrations. In a telephonic interview with Star of Mysore, Prof. Nissar Ahmed said that he felt highly honoured to inaugurate the Naada Habba. Here are the excerpts. By…
Guru of Gurus
August 17, 2017By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Datta, the son of Atri and Anasuya, is considered Adi Guru, the first teacher. He is visualised as under a banyan tree with a cow (who provides) and four dogs (who protect), while he enlightens. Who was his teacher? Nature, he replies. In the Avadhuta Gita,…
City entrepreneur upgrades Mysore Palace Board website
August 16, 2017By S. Kenneth Shishir The upgraded version of the Mysore Palace Board website (www.mysorepalace.gov.in), which is fully responsive, user-friendly and content-protective with e-ticketing system and world class design, is all set to be launched tomorrow. The website has been upgraded by Naveen Kavirathna of Future Design Technologies, Mysuru, who has also developed the online ticketing…
Clean Energy Movement
August 16, 2017For most of us, home is where we spend most of our time with our near and dear ones. Feng Shui has some simple yet useful advice and solutions, in order to let the ‘Chi,’ the energy, flow smoothly around the house. According to Feng Shui philosophy, Chi is influenced by everything concrete in our…
A moving train to Pakistan: “Idea of India would be good if it is Akhand Bharat”
August 14, 2017This is the 70th year of India’s Independence. Every time we recall the ‘Tryst With Destiny’ speech by the first Prime Minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru in India’s Constituent Assembly, we also recall that outside the well-guarded enclaves of New Delhi the horror of Partition was well underway. Twenty years ago when the…
Shivapura Satyagraha Soudha cries for ‘freedom’ from anti-social elements
August 14, 2017By Nagaiah Lalanakere An inspiring monument of India’s freedom struggle located adjacent to the Mysuru-Bengaluru highway at Shivapura of Maddur taluk in Mandya District, stands testimony to the don’t-care approach of the officialdom. Built to commemorate the Shivapura Flag Satyagraha of 1938, the Satyagraha Soudha was declared open on Sept. 26, 1979 and now it…
Mysuru’s Tryst With Freedom Movement: Recalling Mysuru’s role in India’s Freedom Struggle
August 13, 2017By S.N.Venkatnag Sobers India will celebrate its 70th Independence Day on August 15, 2017 during which the entire country will remember the sacrifices of many people since 1857 – The first war of Indian Independence until Aug.15, 1947 – the day we got Independence. People in Mysore also remember the contributions of freedom fighters from…
184-year-old Maharaja’s PU College in run-down condition
August 12, 2017By N. Niranjan Nikam The crumbling walls, peeling plasters, collapsed compound wall are all crying for attention, even as the majestic Founder’s bust in a glass case looks on mutely at the decay of an institution that is 184 years old. To save this institution established by Mummadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, is the sole aim of…
Birth Centenary Celebrations of Chitrakala Nipuna Sangita Vidwan R. Seetaram
August 10, 2017As part of the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Chitrakala Nipuna Vid. R. Seetaram of Mysore Brothers-fame (July 2017 – July 2018), a paintings exhibition has been organised on Aug. 12 and a music concert on Aug. 19 at Sri Prasanna Venkataramana Swamy temple, Old Bandikeri Road, K.R. Mohalla. The painting expo will be open for…
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