Sir, If you have a quick glance around your neighbourhood, chances are you will spot the dainty, white-flowered ‘congress grass’ creeping among the city’s lush green vegetation. Congress grass is a rather innocent name for the hazardous and highly allergic Parthenium hysterophorus plant. What makes the Parthenium plant a real threat is its toxicity when…

Sir, Kalidasa road has become one of the busiest roads in Mysuru, having a large number of banks, restaurants, medical facilities and other commercial activities. Though the road is broad, the stretch from Panchavati Circle to Chandrakala Hospital lacks a safely walkable footpath. Vehicles will be parked on either sides of the road. Due to…

Sir, Reading Vikram Muthanna’s article “Train’s coming…Mysore changing” in his column “In Black & White” published in SOM dated Aug.1, I am reminded of my experience of riding a Bullet Train in Japan. In April 2014, we went on a short holiday to Japan. After sightseeing in Japanese capital Tokyo we wanted to experience the…

Sir, This is regarding sterilisation of stray dogs in Mysuru. I have seen so many dogs are caught by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) staff, sterilised in People For Animals (PFA) and left in streets without proper procedures and post-operative care. Many of them have faced infections and were dead. Some dogs that were recently…

Sir, It pains me reading about extreme callous attitude of our brethren who ruthlessly dump garbage in public and private lands too, unmindful of the consequential hazard on the environment in the already rotten situation owing to the pandemic. It shows lack of basic civic sense on their part. A few pictures that recently appeared…

Sir, This is to bring to the notice of the authorities concerned regarding the half-done road work in Yadavagiri. It has been one month now and still it is incomplete. The exact location is at 2nd Main, 8th ‘A’ Cross, Yadavagiri near Gujarati Samaj. On behalf of the residents, I request the authorities to expedite…

Sir, We all know that computerisation was started in Government administration at least a decade ago or even before. Things like registration of documents, land holdings information (RTC), Court proceedings, RTO Office (though not fully), KSRTC bookings etc., have been computerised to some extent. But one Department of the Government, that is, Taluk Office (Mini…

Sir, I came across a dangerous path in Gandhi Square recently where the High Tension electric pole was installed on the middle of the footpath! Aren’t the footpath meant for the pedestrians to walk safely in city? If you see the picture, there is hardly 5 ft footpath and exactly in the middle there is…

Sir, Your Abracadabra dated 26th July — Nostalgically Speaking-2, Mysore, a Pensioner’s Paradise — was very interesting. I would like to add some more from my memories dating to 1960s and later. I was a school boy in the 1960s at Bharathi Sthree Samaj in Vontikoppal (V.V. Puram). The city had about half the present…