Mysuru: Shruthimanjari Foundation has organised its 27th Annual Music Festival from Jan. 22 to 26 at Rotary West Auditorium in Saraswathipuram here. Jan. 22 – 6 pm: Vidu. Revathi Kamat, Veena Vidushi and Connoisseur of Art, will inaugurate the Festival. Rtn. Nagesh Atharva, President, Rotary Club of Mysore West, Mysuru, will preside. 7 pm: Karnatak…
When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don’t become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people. Having temporary custody of this Office has been for me a sacred…
By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist It is hard to believe that the famous historic place, Bannimantap, will have a bus stand to be built at Rs. 120 crore on the 16-acre land the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has in its possession. Perhaps, nowhere else, such strange proposals to turn a garden and Parade…
By Dr. S.N. Prasad The popular social media is awash with grotesquely exaggerated and sanitised accounts of something spectacular, popularly described as a rare ‘alignment’ and ‘parade’ of planets, happening in the night sky this month, especially on Jan. 25. In one such video report making the rounds of WhatsApp, I heard with a combination…
An appeal to Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar Sir, It was rather amusing to read an honest statement by Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar (‘Politicians should be kept out of sports’ in SOM dated Jan. 1) Stating that politicians should be kept out as they were dangerous to the sport, Shivakumar said it was his personal opinion…
The 2025 ‘Sangeetotsava’ programme of the Kotharotsava Vaibhava at Sri Chamundeshwari Temple atop Chamundi Hill concluded with a group singing on Jan. 13. The group was accompanied by Nagalingesh Achar on keyboard, Parameshwar Hegde on tabla and Srinivas on rhythm pad.
To mark the centenary celebrations of the historic 1924 Congress Session chaired by Mahatma Gandhi at Belagavi, a grand statue of the Mahatma was unveiled in the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha premises in Belagavi this morning. The 25-foot-tall statue, weighing 20 tons, has been installed near the North Gate of Suvarna Vidhana Soudha. AICC President Mallikarjun…
Sr. Jovita Noronha (83), former Principal of Jyoti Nivas College, Bengaluru and sister of late Very Rev. Fr. Denis Noronha of Mysore Diocese, passed away on Jan. 19. She had served at KROSS & ODP, Mysuru. Funeral Service were held at St. Joseph’s Convent, Frazer Town, Bengaluru, yesterday.
K.K. Gangadharan (76), a native of Aiguru village in Somwarpet taluk of Kodagu district, passed away on Jan. 19 at his residence in Bengaluru. He leaves behind his wife, one son and a host of relatives and friends. A recipient of Kendra Sahitya Academy award from Karnataka last year for his book ‘Malayalam Kathegalu,’ Gangadharan…
Sathyavathi Rao (85), a retired teacher and a resident of Bogadi, passed away on Jan. 14 at a private hospital in city. Wife of late YVR Rao, she leaves behind a daughter, a son and a host of relatives and friends. Last rites were held at the foot of Chamundi Hill on Jan. 16, according…
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