The pages of the land’s history, spanning several centuries, portrays people of past generations with the scripts dictated by the extent to which the chroniclers not only got the opportunities to observe the goings on but also their perceptions and even inferences. Knowledge of the land’s highly rated richness, both material and otherwise, wafting beyond…

Many regions of the country have a long history of urban residents with ownership rights of agricultural land, identifying themselves as landlords, enjoying the plentiful produce of food-grains promptly delivered by the farmers at the lord’s doorstep, marking the harvest season. The reign of landlords ended some decades ago in Karnataka following the policy of…

Come elections to the country’s Parliament and Legislative Assemblies of States, the dominant speakers of its major political parties get into top gear exposing the frailties of each other, thus presenting on a platter to the electorate in particular and the world’s observers in general an unmistakable script on the dark sides to the life…

Many years have already passed since the times the world got alerted about the stock of fossil fuels nearing zero point sooner than later, although with no signs of the warning heeded by any of the stockholders as well as the stakeholders. As if to mock at the people who are knowledgeable about the earth’s…

The air is abuzz with opinions hinting at despair as well as plans of action expressed in various circles portraying the country’s scenario of human resources quantitatively and qualitatively with words and figures that has set many thinking, the rest befuddled. While the successive governments are yet to lay a clear road map for the…

Having welcomed with open arms as it were, western culture in its multiple avatars, notably allopathic medicines, attire, food habits and music, not to forget favouring English medium schooling, Indian society has begun to bestow its attention on naturopathy, ayurveda, yoga, organics and whatever in a rush of blood matching tsunami and cloudburst. The yoga-guru-turned-entrepreneur…

It was this day, nay this very evening, 40 years ago that STAR OF MYSORE was born in this city as an Evening English Newspaper. Happily it continues to be your favourite eveninger. From this evening, we will be entering 41st year of our publication. And as we do so, we gratefully remember all those…

The only planet in the Solar system known to be hosting life forms in variety and numbers virtually infinite is most appropriately described as mother earth. Apart from walking on such a mother per se, all the bounties starting from air to breathe, water to quench thirst, soil to raise food and plants in abundance…

Going by the common sight of eateries of all classes in the range of roadside mobile canteens and five-star hotels witnessing customers in numbers far more than available space, particularly in cities such as Mysuru, one gets the unmistakable gut-feeling that the pockets of their residents are jingling with cash (as well as debit and…

Considering the factors bugging people as a whole in diverse ways, running to a long list and still getting longer, some of them self inflicted by human beings and the rest caused by indiscriminate and over-use of nature’s bounty, read over-exploitation, two such factors deserve to be accorded prominence. One is the factor of pollution…