By C.P. Belliappa It was the last week of December in 1965. All of us were at home in Gonikoppal during the term break. My grandmother had taken a parike (vow) to perform Satyanarayana puja at the temple in Peggala. On 31st December we had an early start, since Ganapathi homa preceded the Satyanarayana puja….
By Girija Madhavan The Past is over, you cannot get back to it. Live each day anew,” was written in the Autograph Books of our school days. In these days of uncertainty and menace, it is a comfort to reach back in memory to the lovely old Mysore of my childhood and briefly revisit the…
My grandfather Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri was an extraordinary scholar in his own right. Yet, he was also a husband, father and a grandfather to us all. Behind this colossus was a sweet, petite, gentle soul who quite literally ran the Sastri household single-handedly, when her husband was engrossed with the rise and fall of…
City’s women auto drivers fight odds to make a living By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Traditional auto-rickshaws have always remained heavily male-dominated. Of late, there are many women who have shattered the stereotypes and have been performing the duties of auto drivers, sometimes even better than their male counterparts. Though they face plenty of gender bias…
By S.B.S. Surendra, Accredited Master Feng Shui Consultant Citrine crystal is long known for attracting wealth, so it is often used in Feng Shui wealth activation; Displaying a citrine gem tree would be a good symbolism Majority of people focus on career and health precedes wealth activation. Activating fortunes is one of special aspects of…
By Dr. Bhagirath S. Naganath [Continued from yesterday] A. R. Krishnashastry took his B.A. exam in 1912. Regrettably, he failed in his English paper by a mark! He rewrote his English paper in 1913 and then graduated with a B.A. degree. Following his B.A., he embarked upon completing his M.A. in Kannada and Sanskrit. Shastry…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy In the world, the western democracies led by the US have threatened to stop the natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. Here in Mysuru, a similar thing is being carried out to stop Piped Natural Gas (PNG) supply by Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Corporators led by BJP MLAs. Stopping Russian…
Being a member of the LPG network, it would be supine and unjust on our part not to give a balanced counter view on the subject of PNG Vs LPG as a fuel of choice. Essential product LPG has been consciously promulgated by the Government at the Centre as an ideal fuel for modern living…
H. M. Nayak described him as Kannada Senani ! His rendition of Mahabharata titled ‘Vachana Bharata’ remains to this day one of the most widely read versions of the great epic in Kannada. He introduced the great writers of Bengal — Tagore and Bankim Chandra — to a generation of Kannada readers through his translations…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In the Vedic world, to practice dharma meant performing yagna. Yagna was translated by European Orientalists as sacrifice. But in sacrifice, you give something to appease a deity who needs nothing from you but your loyalty and obedience. In yagna, you exchange. You give in order…
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