Rahul Gandhi is providing more than required grist to the legal luminaries of our country and also to successive Governments at the Centre to study the innumerable civil and criminal laws of our colonial British rulers that we embraced and adopted with glee. It needed a Rahul Gandhi to show us how those laws of…
The good news after the Congress came to power in Karnataka is that N. Jayaram, a 2004-batch IAS Officer, has been appointed as the Secretary to Chief Minister Siddharamaiah. Jayaram has a very intimate connection with Mysuru for two reasons. One is, he was the Commissioner of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) from Dec. 10,…
Reading an article titled ‘Is Lalitha Mahal Hotel going Jayalakshmi Vilas Mansion way?’ in yesterday’s Star of Mysore written by no less a person than one who is well-qualified and experienced on the subject and a retired Senior Vice-President of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) Mr. N.K.A. Ballal, a resident of Mysuru for many years…
I am wondering at the human bondage to religion, not so much to God. The religion the people follow is the real problem, not the God they worship. I allowed my thoughts to soar in the region of metaphysics yesterday morning as I was reading the editorial in the Deccan Herald titled “Religious freedom: Govt….
Karnataka 2023 Assembly elections Indira Gandhi had reacted, rather cryptically, to a journalist who asked her how she felt after her 1980 Parliamentary elections’ victory trouncing the Janata Party, saying, ‘the whole world loves the winner.’ Of course, she did not say that the loser is an orphan. After yesterday’s unprecedented victory of the Congress…
You choose your Chowkidar, your Destiny Swami Vivekananda, that wandering Hindu Monk had famously said, inspired from Veda, that ‘you are the architect of your destiny.’ If so, time has come for Karnataka to shape its destiny for the next five years by choosing its rulers. That time is tomorrow. Voting begins from morning 7…
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Mascot of India that is Bharat Veni, Vidi, Vici is a Latin phrase attributed to the famous Roman General Julius Caesar. It means ‘I came, I saw, I conquered.’ It refers to a swift, conclusive victory. Same could be said of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Karnataka last Saturday and Sunday, including…
Karnataka is now in birth pangs of a new government — May 2023. The fight is between the incumbent BJP and desperate Congress but JD(S) is the challenge to both Congress and BJP. H.D. Kumaraswamy of JD(S) is confident that in case of a fractured mandate he can act as a catalyst in forming the…
The Supreme Court last Wednesday told the united Opposition of 14 National Parties that political leaders stand absolutely on the same footing as any ordinary citizen of India and therefore they are not entitled to ‘higher immunity’ from investigation, arrest or prosecution. The Opposition parties had filed a joint petition in the Supreme Court claiming…
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