Are we benefiting from this annual shindig? If not, why are we there? Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has, at least, redeemed our country’s honour among the comity of nations by sending to Davos competent persons and those who are not kleptomaniacs. I was away for 18 days on a journey of rediscovering places in…
The primordial question to mankind is found in the Rigveda (8,000 years old). The question is: Who knows and who can say whence it all came and how creation happened? This question, intriguingly, is followed not by an answer but by another question: The Gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence…
Last evening around 10 pm I felt a tad diminished as a humanist on learning from TV about the passing away of Sri Siddeshwara Swamiji of Jnanayogashram, Vijayapura (formerly Bijapur). Though Swamiji had passed away at 6.05 pm it was officially announced only at around 10 pm. And for good reasons. The funeral arrangements were…
MCC must adopt online services: Hotelier P.V. Giri Mysuru: The 2023 Calendar and the Annual Diary, donated by Hotelier P.V. Giri to Mysuru District Journalists Association (MDJA), was released at an event held at Pathrakartara Bhavan in city this morning. Founder-Editor of Star of Mysore and Mysuru Mithra K.B. Ganapathy released the calendar and the…
It was not just partition of territories but also of minds, says author Ram Madhav Mysore/Mysuru: The partition of 1947 was not just of land but of hearts as well. The narrative and discourse that Hindus and Muslims cannot live together is dangerous, divisive and every Indian must be cautious about this agenda, said noted…
This is the concluding part of the Abracadabra written on 9th November 2017. In view of two important talks on the similar subject by two well-known political thinkers of our times namely Supreme Court Advocate J. Sai Deepak and BJP leader Ram Madhav in city on 17th December 2022 and 18th December 2022 respectively, we…
It was early morning of 3rd December, 2022 when I reached home from Bengaluru Airport on my return from Kashmir. Having slept in the Flybus, sleep has bid me goodbye and a hot cup of coffee fortified my body enough to remain awake for some more time. I switched on the TV and what do…
[Continued from Dec. 6] The ancient history of Kashmir, as narrated by me earlier in this column, is in sharp contrast to the present history of Kashmir. Except probably for the geography of the Kashmir Valley, every aspect related to human life and activity seemed totally changed from what we have read from the books…
Om Namah Shivaya’ be the invocation because according to a book by N.K. Singh titled ‘Saivism in Kashmir’ the first religion of Kashmir was Saivism — worship of Shiva. I purchased the book at the Srinagar (capital of Kashmir) Airport on my return journey from Kashmir after a week’s sojourn, on 3rd December, last Saturday….
Mysore/Mysuru: The Kannada novel Aadarshavadi by senior journalist K.B. Ganapathy (KBG) has gone into second edition after 30 years. It was first published in 1992. Kavitha Prakashana of Publisher Ganesh Amingad has brought out this second edition. “The book was published in 1992 and I had forgotten about it. However, when Ganesh Amingad, who had…
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