Sir, The newly-started Mysuru – Chennai Express in the morning although helpful for early Bengaluru-goers, especially for reaching K.R. Puram and Whitefield, the time is too early. Being a superfast train with electric loco, we expect it to take 2 hrs 30 minutes to reach Bengaluru. Now it is starting at 4.45 am, halting for…

Sir, CHESCom seems to have taken up some upgradation work in the city for which cables are being laid across most areas. Unfortunately, these cables have been left lying around in large bundles in most areas, like huge snakes lying about, posing serious risk of injury to pedestrians. Most sidewalks have been dug up for…

Sir, We Indians are positive in our thinking to such an extent that we throw caution to the winds only in the hope that “nothing will happen and everything will be okay.”  Many disasters can be averted if problems are foreseen and preventive actions are taken. I would like to draw the attention of the…

Sir, This is with reference to the ongoing discussion with respect to the problems with Aadhaar updation. The Aadhaar updation application form is available online at UIDAI website. However, this form is not accepted at the Aadhaar updation centres, more so at the Post Offices. Even when one fills in the form with all the…

Sir, “It is the rulers and the Army (in Pakistan) that have made the majority of wonderful, affectionate Pakistani Muslims IRRELEVANT.” This sentence from your Abracadabra titled “Dumb India, Deaf Pak — Twain shall never talk?” of Aug. 25, 2015, reproduced in SOM dated Feb.19, 2019, stands very much Relevant even to this day. This…

Sir, What option India has (?) is the question you have raised and also answered in your own way through analogies of a Buddhist monk and Vladimir Putin who completely destroyed Chechenya, a prosperous town of one lakh population, to fight Islamic terrorism (Abracadabra in SOM dated Feb.17). India being a democratic country can neither…

Sir, With reference to the letter “Absence of staff with merit cause for problem with Aadhaar cards” (SOM dated Feb.15) let it be added that data entry is only a skill which needs proper supervision for correcting errors by a knowledgeable person with a good understanding of the procedure involved that has a reasonable grip…

Sir, The Financial Year is coming to a close by 31.3.2019. Commencing from 1st April 2019, the MCC will be getting the property tax at all its Zonal Offices in city.  Every year tax payers stand in long queue to get the forms written by paying Rs.30 and then entering it at another point and…

Sir, On the occasion of Star of Mysore’s anniversary celebration, I want to THANK YOU KBG for being so generous in sending SOM copies to Pondicherry way back in 1998-99. Though I had thanked you personally at a gathering in Olive Garden, I thought our readers must know about your grateful act. Way back in…

Sir, I was not surprised reading the news item ‘Aadhaar Card correction a painstaking process,’ published in SOM on Feb. 13. Tax-payers face problems at every office they visit because of lack of merit in the staff dealing with the issuing of the card. Apart from a few sincere and merited workers, most of them…