Title : Sword of Shivaji Author : K.B. Ganapathy Year : 2021 Pages : 110 pages Price : Rs. 100 Publisher : Samvahana, Mysuru Cover pix : Ganjifa Raghupathi Bhat By Dr. C. Naganna Almost all writers of my acquaintance in Karnataka have come out with one book or a couple of books in Kannada…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There are times when I think that I have told a story fully and that there is nothing else to talk about it when some most unexpected developments nudge me to go on and tell some more! This is the situation that I am now in because of the…
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride, is an old saying, as old as the hills. The closest synonym of the word ‘wishes’ could be ‘dreams’ and so let us discuss about dreams. It is a pessimistic saying suggesting wishes (dreams) can never be realised. But we are often advised to have dreams, big ones…
Farrokh Khudamurad Irani, Farrokh K. Irani (or F.K. Irani) for we Mysureans, Founder of the famous Ideal Jawa Motorcycle Factory at Yadavagiri, Mysuru, was an iconic Mysurean of his days since 1960. He passed away in October 1985 but happily there are Mysureans who revere his memory. I discovered the proof of this sentiment when…
Mohan Kumar was watching TV at 10 pm. His son Viraat said he was going to the club for a party. “Have you taken the key of the main door?” asked the father. “No, leave it in the usual place,” said Viraat and shot off on his nocturnal trip with his wife. Mohan Kumar, as…
I have heard death always comes stealthily. In the death of N. Niranjan Nikam, a familiar name among journalists in our city, who died last night, death came, without an iota of doubt, very much stealthily. I got a Forwarded message about this most unexpected and deeply disturbing news early this morning. I usually doubt…
I had read the autobiography of L.K. Advani, the BJP’s top honcho “My Country My Life”, a tome running to nearly 1,000 pages in 2008, as soon as it was published. BJP as a political party has had a very chequered growth from its origin as Jana Sangh, then submerged in JP’s Janata Party and…
Last Sunday, 31st January 2021, I went to Madikeri on a bore-breaking trip with my wife and two friends. It was a two-and-a-half-hour journey by car via Kushalnagar. The road being good travelling was comfortable. Kushalnagar is the Gateway to Kodagu, with River Cauvery flowing quietly as a boundary between Mysuru and Kodagu districts. The…
By K.B. Ganapathy, Senior journalist It was really a welcome move by our Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra, who raised an important issue in the State Legislative Assembly over the crumbling 137-year-old Devaraja Market and the 129-year-old Lansdowne Building (refer news item titled ‘Restoration of Lansdowne Building, Devaraja Market after Court’s verdict’ in Star of Mysore…
The world, according to reports, learnt of Coronavirus disease rather late by few months when people began to die of the scourge not knowing how to treat such patients. China was considered the culprit and those who travelled to that country became the carries of the virus. And China with its booming economy, there is…
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