Just four years into learning yoga, this young girl has reached the highest level of winning medals not just in the National-level but in the International-level as well. Meet, city’s young yoga champ Kushi Hemachandra, a 9th student of St. Joseph’s Central School, Vijayanagar. Kushi is not only adept in various asanas but has also…
By Girija Madhavan Churches in Mysuru will soon prepare for Easter, Good Friday being on the 14th and Easter Sunday on the 16th of April. Photos of Easter last year at Saint Gregorios Orthodox Syrian Church in Mysuru reminded me of an Easter thirty-three years ago in Moscow in the former Soviet Union. We lived…
The legendary singer Mohammed Rafi’s daughter Nasreen Ahmad and son-in-law Meraj Ahmad were in city recently as guests of honour for ‘Adab Rafi-2’ organised by Rotary Ivory City Mysuru. The couple arrived at a Club in the evening in a car driven by a young lady. They were greeted and as the young lady came…
A 14-member team from Mysuru was part of the Indian contingent to visit Shree Katas Raj Temple in Punjab province of the neighbouring nation. By N.S. Sathyanarayana & A.G. Somashekar Not many are blessed to visit the Hindu temple located across the border in Pakistan to celebrate the Mahashivarathri. Fourteen devotees from Mysuru visited Shree…
Literally ignoring the scorching sun and sweltering heat, both Congress and BJP have taken a challenge to emerge victorious in the Gundlupet by-election that will be held on Apr. 9. Election campaigning that has reached the crescendo will come to an end today evening and both Geetha Mahadevaprasad (Congress) and C.S. Niranjan Kumar (BJP) are…
Congress candidate for the prestigious Nanjangud Assembly constituency Kalale Keshavamurthy has become a 24X7 politician these days with day-long political rallies and a series of late evening meetings with his supporters. The Congress party, especially Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, has banked on him to steer the party to victory in the by-election that is scheduled to…
Star of Mysore (SOM): How is the atmosphere in the constituency and what is the response? C.S. Niranjan Kumar: BJP has all chances for victory in Gundlupet. Rural belts have given me many hopes this time and the response is tremendous. People have decided that this time, it will be BJP and I am sure…
Congress is a sinking old ship, opines V. Sreenivasa Prasad Spending all day in election rallies meeting thousands of people, breakfast, lunch and dinner with his supporters and at night chalking out next day’s campaign strategies along with party leaders and campaign strategists, former Minister and BJP candidate for the prestigious Nanjangud by-election V. Sreenivasa…
By S. Kenneth Shishir The renovation of St. Philomena’s Church, Mysuru’s iconic and one of the largest churches in the country, is almost complete except for its exterior portions. The renovation was taken up as the structure was being exposed to the vagaries of nature and had developed small cracks with water seeping. Yesterday workers…
FROM THE ARCHIVES By Vikram Muthanna Recently, I was invited to be part of a group that is trying to raise funds for Pratham Mysore, the highly respected NGO that has helped improve the state of education in our country. Pratham Mysore has popularised the Balawadi pre-school programme where they pick a few volunteers in a…
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