‘Chefing is like real life… You never finish learning.’ — Marcel Reimer By Dr. Veena Bharathi [Mob: 98802-51040] Ramaskanda Shastry is the Private Chef of Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, the Bollywood stars, who are officially tying the nuptial knot today in Mumbai. The wedding festivities kick-started with mehendi ceremony yesterday. Ramaskanda, a native of…
“My Alma Mater…Still matters me the most !”
April 9, 2022Mysore Medical College Alumni Association (MAA) is celebrating a day-long MAA Utsav-2022 at Platinum Jubilee Hall in J.K. Grounds today. Here we publish a brief write-up by one of its alumni Dr. Veena Bharathi. Read on… The 1983 December College Committee photo evoked a string of nostalgia in me. I just could not help smiling…
Silver medals and cash prizes presented to topper
March 27, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: On behalf of Dr. Veena Bharathi of Laxmi Ashwath Foundation, Prof. S. Sudha (formerly Professor of Sanskrit at Sharada Niketana, Mysuru), presented the silver medals and cash prizes to meritorious students at the Pratibha Puraskar event held at Sarada Vilas College, Mysuru, recently. The endowment prizes have been instituted by Dr. Veena Bharathi (an…
13th edition of Bengaluru International Film Festival from tomorrow
March 2, 2022Once again a buffet of movies at BIFFE ! “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” — Ingmar Bergman, Renowned Swedish Director By Dr. Veena Bharathi After a hiatus, a lull…
12th death anniversary of Dr. Vishnuvardhan on Dec. 30 – Saahasa Simha: A Reminiscence
December 28, 2021Noorondu nenapu yedeyaaladinda… By Dr. Veena Bharathi It was May 2005. Our family friend and Dental Surgeon Dr. Gururaj Nadig called me over the phone, “Dr. Veena, I will be going to Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital with Vishnuvardhan, can you please meet us at the Hospital by 5 in the evening?” Dr. Nadig was a…
Baana Dariyalli Surya Jaari Hoda…
October 31, 2021By Dr. Veena Bharathi When I met Puneeth Rajkumar for the very first time, it was on the occasion of the Grihapravesham function (house- warming ceremony) of The Lohit Farm House of Dr. Rajkumar, 30 miles from Bengaluru (on the Mysuru Road), during May-1983. Puneet’s original name was Lohit, which was also the name of…
Rape Trauma Syndrome: Mental turbulence of a woman victim
September 7, 2021“Did you want to see me broken ? Bowed head and lowered eyes ? Shoulders falling down like tear drops, Weakened by my soulful cries…, Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise, Into a day break that’s wondrously clear, I rise, I rise, I rise.” — American Poet & Artiste Maya Angelou (‘Still…
93rd Birth Anniversary of Thespian on Apr. 24 – Dr. Raj Kumar: A Reminiscence
April 23, 2021I have had the golden opportunity of watching Dr. Raj Kumar from my age of 10 years due to my father’s close association with the veteran superstar. I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to supervise his Physiotherapy sessions at HOSMAT Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Hospital in Bengaluru during 1995, when he had developed severe…
The Silver Sheen of Single Screen Theatres
February 19, 2021By Dr. Veena Bharathi “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” —Ingmar Bergman, Acclaimed Swedish Director About sixty years back, my father Ashwathanarayan started the very first movie theatre in his…
Book selected by Govt. Book Selection Panel
January 23, 2021Bengaluru: The Biography of Veteran Director, Actor and Environmentalist Suresh Heblikar, “Live With Dreams”, written by Dr. Veena Bharathi (an alumnus of Mysore Medical College and Research Institute) and published by Sapna Book House – Publishing Wing, has been selected by the Karnataka Government Book Selection Committee for the year 2018, to be distributed among…
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