Mysuru: The expansive Mysore Palace premises this morning hosted a massive ‘Yoga for Democracy’ human chain formation, attracting thousands of participants. The event, titled Yoga Sarapali – Prajaprabhutvakkaagi Yoga (Yoga Human Chain for Democracy), was organised by the Yoga Dasara Sub-Committee in collaboration with AYUSH Department, GSS Foundation, Mysuru Yoga Federation, Sri Patanjali Yoga Shikshana…
Hail! March of Indian Democracy
April 30, 2024Revisiting the past in 2024 Among academicians in Mysuru, nay in India, if at all there was a Nehru fan and loyalist, it was Prof. C.D. Narasimhaiah (CDN), Professor in English, Manasagangothri, University of Mysore (1921-2005). He was best known for his literary criticism and bringing out an abridged version of Nehru’s magnum opus ‘Discovery…
Democracy even in times of covid
April 6, 2021By T.J.S. George We are so proud of our freedom that we don’t want even Covid to interfere with it. We mix and mingle with abandon, thanks to our freedom. Figures show a spiralling of cases as the second wave of the pandemic is sweeping across the land. The situation is so serious that the…
Is this what Democracy has come to?
January 12, 2021By T.J.S. George Incredible things are happening in America. An incumbent President refusing to vacate office is unheard-of. Donald Trump is doing what no US President has done in the past, indeed, what no Government head in a democracy has done. The result is not just the crumbling of American democracy; physical attacks are taking…
Speakers express concern over threat to Democracy at Journalism Seminar
December 23, 2019Mysuru: Maintaining that equality and secular principles form the basic idea of the country, Senior Journalist and former Outlook Editor Krishnaprasad opined that the country is now facing the threat to democracy from within. He was speaking in one of the sessions of the two-day National Seminar on ‘Media and Democracy’ organised jointly by Gandhi…
Youths advised to protect constitution, save democracy
March 19, 2019Mysuru: Emphasising that the practise of casteism, corruption, increase of crime and terror activities are threatening peace, stability and existence of democracy in the country, former Judge of the Supreme Court Justice Shivaraj V. Patil called upon the youths to protect the law of the land by adhering to the principles and core values of…
Democracy in India: Enough of Westminster Model, why not US Model?
January 11, 2018By K.C. Biddappa, Retd. Senior Vice-President, ITC Ltd. This has reference to K.B. Ganapathy’s Abracadabra in Star of Mysore dated Jan.3 regarding the perpetuation of dynastic politics in Indian democracy. How true! Dynastic politics is in the DNA of Indian political system. For a common, hard-working, honest and tax-paying citizen, democracy in India has very…
Tale of Indian Democracy: Urbanites Vs Rustics
May 16, 2017India’s demographic profile, as foreseen by research teams pursuing population studies, is heading to be dominated by urbanities. The pace of that event is picking unprecedented trend. The renowned British Physicist, Stephen Hawking, has been warning about the perils of relentless addition to human headcount on planet earth as a whole, which according to him…
Dividends of diversity in Democracy
April 29, 2017Equality in public domain among the land’s masses and liberty (to speak subject to certain universally acceptable conditions and act in a manner of not causing both physical and mental hurt to anybody as well as not violative of the land’s laws) are unarguably features of orderly democracy. These features as well as orderliness of…
Almost unnoticed, our democracy is getting abridged; Is perpetual one-party rule the future of India?
April 11, 2017Fact No. 1: Donations by companies to political parties is the biggest contributor to corruption in India. All parties acknowledge this. Fact No. 2: Elimination of corruption has been a top priority with the BJP Government. After the currency demonetisation, government leaders even claimed that black money and corruption had been virtually stamped out. Fact…
Recent Comments