Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Today modern science is proving that everything you know as existence is all just one energy manifesting itself in millions of ways. Or in other words, if everything is one energy, the difference between the rock and what you call as human, is just a question of…
Re-centring the Hindu Goddess
July 30, 2026By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist If you only consume today’s festival talk, you would think India’s calendar is a relay race between Ram and Krishna. That is a late narrowing. The older seasonal spine is goddess-centred and nature-driven. It was about paying attention to the weather, to the vegetation, to the…
Brains we have… institutions we don’t
July 29, 2026By Dr. B.S. Ajaikumar As the CJP protest comes to an end and students return to their drudgery we have to ask, why do hundreds of thousands of bright Indian students pack their bags for overseas Universities. Not because India lacks talent. But because India has failed, for over seven decades, to build enough world-class…
The real power of quiet authority
July 29, 2026By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam I attended a function the other day where the chief guest arrived twenty minutes late and the entire hall rose as though a great wind had passed through it. What struck me was not the man himself but the small army that preceded him. There was someone to carry his folder,…
Traffic Jams
July 27, 2026Fleeting Thoughts By Ashvini Ranjan How inefficient administration chokes our cities Whenever the subject of increasing traffic congestion in Mysuru comes up, the explanations are almost always the same. There are simply too many cars and two-wheelers on the road. The roads are narrow and full of potholes. Traffic lights malfunction. Road works continue endlessly….
Vintage Vignettes … from a Princely State
July 27, 2026By R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana The World of Textile Tickets. From the late 19th century onwards, thousands of glossy colourful paper labels with striking visuals arrived in India. Known as textile tickets, shippers’ tickets, textile or cotton marks, tika or chaap, they were pasted on millions of packed yards, bundles of British and Indian machine-made…
Footpaths only for walking: But for how long?
July 26, 2026By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Since the past few days, the civic authorities in our city seem to have started a very energetic drive to clear our footpaths from the various kinds of encroachments that we have been seeing across the length and breadth of the city, over many years now. This problem of…
Love is all about you
July 24, 2026Sadhguru on the mechanics of an intoxicating emotion Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Here is a lot of emotion attached to the subject of love and lots of fanciful things have been said about it, but I would like to bring it down to the mechanics of love. For example, people are…
Attigodu Govt. High School bags National Award
July 23, 2026Periyapatna School among three selected in Karnataka as Swachh Evam Harit Vidyalaya for 2025-26 By A. Ganesh At times when Government Schools are on the verge of closer either for low admission rate or for poor maintenance, here is a Government School which has emerged as model for State-run schools throughout the State. The Attigodu…
A Tamil reimagining of the Ramayana
July 23, 2026By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Kambaramayanam is one of the most celebrated works of Tamil literature. Composed by the poet Kamban around the ninth century in Tamil Nadu, in the time of Chola kings, it is a lyrical retelling of the Ramayana filled with rich poetry, elaborate metaphors and deep moral…















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