Sir, Lot more needs to be done to reduce the extremely high noise pollution from other vehicular sources. Mainly the powerful horns being used by trucks, buses and even those vehicles ferrying school children who incessantly blow the horn to drive away (scare away) the traffic and for school vans and buses to announce their…

Sir, I am P. Madhumalesh, brother of Manoj Kumar, who died in the cylinder blast incident at IISc., Bengaluru, recently. I am writing this to clarify about a news which was published in Star of Mysore dated Dec.8 titled, “IISc. pays Rs. 10 lakh ex-gratia to city researcher’s wife.”  The actual scenario is that we…

Sir, The two-wheeler parking lot at the City Railway Station (Platform No. 6) does not have any lighting facility and it is very difficult to locate the parked vehicles on arrival at night. Repeated reminders to the personnel manning the parking have been of no avail. The Railway authorities would do well to arrange to…

Sir, What a shocking picture of ‘Tiger’ parked right below the ‘No Parking’ board! (SOM dated Dec.10). It also proves the proverb that there is darkness below the candle light! Coincidentally, the very same topic was discussed at the MGP monthly meeting on Dec.9. The guest, Traffic Police Inspector C.V. Ravi (replacing the earlier announced…

Sir, We have lost a tall spiritual senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order in the passing away of Rev. Swami Jagadatmanandaji. He was an avid reader, a keen observer and an eloquent speaker who held the audience spell-bound whenever he chaired a discourse assembly. His tongue-in-cheek statements made his talks very interesting and humorous. My…

Sir, Just a few days back I read in one of the local newspapers that Gujarat experimented online voting in local body elections held during the year 2015 and it proved to be a tremendous success. There was an overwhelming response from the public. The process is very simple. At first we have to download…

Sir, We are thankful to the Mysuru Division of South Western Railway for augmenting the new air-conditioned class AC 3-Tier coach (B1) to 16219/16220 Chamarajanagar-Tirupati Express in August this year. It is also happy to note that the Railway Division has augmented an additional AC 3-Tier Coach (B2) to this train very recently (within a…

Sir, The interior roads of Vijayanagar to the west of Kodava Samaja are in real bad condition. Some of these roads are extensively used by school-going children who are exposed to traffic hazards. Our repeated requests in this regard to the authorities concerned have not yielded any positive results. Added to this problem is the…

Sir, It is heartening to note that as announced by the Prime Minister of India at the time of inaugurating the Statue of Unity, a Museum of Rulers is being established therein and the portrait of the last Maharaja of Mysore Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar will be displayed there (Star of Mysore dated Nov. 30). I…

Sir, With reference to the recent news items in SOM about the DC inspecting Lansdowne and Devaraja Market buildings and then Minister Khader too visiting Lansdowne building, I wish to express my thoughts on the subject. Both the buildings are unique heritage structures and there are reports concerning both — one arguing for retention and…