Mysuru: In view of the 72nd Independence Day celebrations tomorrow, the City Police Commissioner has issued the following guidelines: Heads of schools and colleges should ensure adequate security; any unusual abandoned item should be reported to Police. Public places like malls, markets, Railway Station, bus stand, temples and tourist places should ensure installation of surveillance…
I-Day: ‘100 feet Cake with Freedom Fighters pictures’ expo
August 12, 2018Mysuru: On the occasion 72nd Independence Day (I-Day), the Hotel Owners’ Association and Hotel Owners’ Association Charitable Trust in co-operation with Dolphins Bakery Group have arranged an exhibition of “100 feet Cake with Freedom Fighters pictures” on Aug. 15 from 10 am to 5.30 pm at Association building Kuthethuru Seetharama Bhavana, #1265, 1 st Main,…
Son of an American mother and Indian father, Atul Keshap writes exclusively for SOM on India’s 70th Independence Day…
August 24, 2017There are people who crave for publicity at the drop of a hat. There are a few others who go about quietly making a mark in the society and who shun it. To this noble league belonged former UN Diplomat Dr. Keshap Chander Sen. He had come from the US and settled down in Mysuru….
Time to ponder what happened to Independence. How the confidence of 1947 gave way to antagonisms
August 16, 2017By T.J.S. George August 15, 1947 will go down in history as one of the most memorable dates, not for India alone but for Asia and the world… For India, it marks the beginning of a new age, a new outlook, a new future. For the world it gives a new idea and a new…
In Pictures: Mysuru celebrates Independence Day with zeal and fervour
August 15, 2017Here are some of the pictures from the Independence Day celebrations at Torchlight Parade Ground in Bannimantap.
70 Years of Democracy: Saluting the Majority and Minorities of India
August 14, 2017“Indians may have a vote but they are not represented.” —David Selbourne, Journalist A diplomat is one who remembers the birthday of a woman but forgets the year of her birth. So goes a joke on diplomats. Our immediate past Vice-President Hamid Ansari seems to have forgotten this diplomat’s credo, himself having been an…
A moving train to Pakistan: “Idea of India would be good if it is Akhand Bharat”
August 14, 2017This is the 70th year of India’s Independence. Every time we recall the ‘Tryst With Destiny’ speech by the first Prime Minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru in India’s Constituent Assembly, we also recall that outside the well-guarded enclaves of New Delhi the horror of Partition was well underway. Twenty years ago when the…
Independence Day: Police issue guidelines
August 14, 2017Mysuru: The Mysuru City Police have issued guidelines for the public to follow during the Independence Day celebrations at Torchlight Parade Ground in Bannimantap here, tomorrow. The Police have instructed the management of educational institutions to provide security to their students by deploying additional security and also instructed the students and public not to touch…
Independence Day final rehearsals held
August 13, 2017Mysuru: There was patriotic fervour in the air as Police Commissioner Dr. A.Subrahmanyeswara Rao took the guard of honour to mark the final rehearsal ahead of the Independence Day. The rehearsal, jointly organised by the District Administration and Mysuru City Police, began at the Bannimantap Torch Light Parade Ground at 9 this morning. It was…
50 years of Freedom and Failures
August 13, 2017Going back 20 years, on this 70th year of our Independence, Star of Mysore produces here the Abracadabra published on 14th Aug. 1997, the eve of India’s 50th year of independence, for your reading pleasure.—Ed This is an occasion for important magazines and newspapers all over the world to write about India’s 50 years of…
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