Inauguration of 22nd edition expo tomorrow The 22nd edition of ‘Ramsons Bombe Mane,’ the exhibition of exquisite dolls from across India organised by Ramsons Kala Pratishtana (RKP), will be inaugurated tomorrow (Aug. 28) at 6 pm at No. 91, Nazarbad Main Road, Mysuru. Scion of erstwhile Thanjavur Maratha Samsthanam Srimant Babaji Rajah Bhonsle with his…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The Rig Veda praises the gods. The priest composes beautiful hymns, asks for cattle, sons, victory, rain. The relationship is simple: human below, god above, prayer going upward. The Atharva Veda works differently. The priest does not pray. He acts. The Rig Vedic world is fundamentally…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There was a time or so our grandmothers insisted, when a neighbour dropped in with a plate of payasam simply because it was Tuesday and the mood had struck her. No festival demanded it, no impending favour justified it and certainly no reciprocal plate of anything was expected in return. I…
By R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana The genealogical chart of the Mysore Royal House right from the reign of H.H. Chamarajendra Wadiyar X until the present day indicates marriage alliances were being forged with Kshatriya kingdoms from the North. These exogamous marriages were increasing since the end of the 19th Century. In the book,…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Having long been a story-teller myself on this page, today I am writing about another story-teller friend, Sujata Rajpal and her latest book. To most Mysureans, the now Mysuru-based Sujata does not need a long or elaborate introduction, because anyone in our city, who has any interest in books…
For most of independent India, Brahmins have occupied a peculiar place in our political discourse. They have become India’s favourite sociological punching bag, routinely blamed for every historical injustice, invoked as symbols of privilege and caste oppression and rarely acknowledged as a political constituency worth courting and so everyone punches away at them. But… every…
By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Wherever I travel, whatever kinds of groups of people I meet, I have spoken to top-level scientists, academics and students at very prestigious universities and various kinds of people, but I always find that the groups I meet in India are far sharper and smarter than most people anywhere…
Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In Vedic times, graha meant malevolent spirits who hurt mothers and babies. It had nothing to do with planets. The 3,000-year-old Vedic Jyotisha had nothing to do with predicting the future. It was a practical science of time-keeping — fixing solstices, calibrating the lunar calendar, scheduling sacrifices….
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There was a time, not very long ago, when a walk was simply a walk. You stepped out into the evening air because your legs asked for it or because the mind needed a little unburdening or because the mango tree at the end of the road was worth another look…
Naturalists Arun Urs and Namratha Urs with Professors and students of Maharaja’s College, Yuvaraja’s College and JSS College during the butterfly walk around Lalitha Mahal Hotel area recently. Butterflies play an important role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem and are the second largest pollinators after bees. They are also bio-indicators, that is the health of…
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