Travelogue: North-East Indian States By Bhamy V. Shenoy [Continued from yesterday] While travelling to Tezpur from Shillong, en-route there is Maha Mrityunjay Temple at Nagaon which has the world’s largest 126 foot Shivalinga. Construction work started in 2003 and the temple was inaugurated last year. It was a big disappointment when we reached the temple…
Travelogue: North-East Indian States By Bhamy V. Shenoy [Continued from yesterday] In comparison to Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya has far more attractive sight-seeing places. Cherrapunji, the rainiest place in the world with an annual precipitation of 463.7, is one of them. In Cherrapunji, Seven Sisters Fall is a tourist spot. However, when we were there, there…
Travelogue: North-East Indian States By Bhamy V. Shenoy In recent years, North-East (NE) India has come on the tourist map to attract mostly Indians. Even in the case of Indians, for it to reach the status of Alps of Switzerland, National Parks of the US, Safaris of Africa or lush forests of New Zealand, NE…
Title : ‘A Call For Progressive Spiritual Hinduism — The Vivekananda Way’ Author : Swami Muktidananda Year : 2022 Pages : 112 Price : Rs.75 Publisher: Advaita Ashrama (Publication House of Ramakrishna Math) Swami Muktidanandaji, President of Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysuru, has written an interesting book, directed at all Hindus titled ‘A Call For Progressive…
Second book of Sai Deepak’s Bharat Trilogy launched HH Sri Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation has organised an insightful talk and interaction session on the book ‘India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation’ by its author J. Sai Deepak, who is also a Supreme Court Advocate, at Vijnana Bhavan in Manasagangothri, Mysuru,…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Of the thousand songs in the Rig Veda, we find 200 songs praising Agni. In fact, the first song of the Rig Veda is a praise to Agni, who is called the priest and messenger of the Gods. Agni must be placed in the eastern direction…
By C.P. Belliappa Title : The Wild Cat’s Compendium Author : Dr. Nima Poovaya Smith Year : 2022 Pages : 51 Price : Rs. 449 (Kindle version) Publisher: Caracal Publications, United Kingdom Dr. Nima Poovaya-Smith (parental home Ammanichanda) has just launched a delightful book titled The Wild Cat’s Compendium, which is a collection of 45…
A few decades ago, while performing a jugalbandhi at Sheshadripuram Ramotsava Samithi in Bengaluru, Vid. N. Rajam, the legendary violinist along with Vid. Mysore M. Nagaraj, spoke a few words on how a jugalbandhi should be. ‘It must be like each artiste, adding a flower to make a beautiful bouquet’ was the wonderful approach of…
Formal inauguration by CM Bommai on Dec. 10 The much-awaited theatre event of the year, Bahuroopi-2022 — the annual National Theatre Festival — organised by Rangayana, Mysuru, will be held at Rangayana premises on Hunsur Road in city from Dec. 8 to 15. The Festival will be formally inaugurated by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai at…
Bollywood is holding a year-long centenary celebrations of veteran actor Dev Anand (26th Sept. 1923 – 3rd Dec., 2011). The actor would have turned 99 years this September. Dev Anand left this mortal world on 3rd of December, 2011, in London. Here we publish an article by Dr. Veena Bharathi, recalling her meetings with Dev…
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