80,000 applicants waiting for sites! MUDA is a white elephant. It has long served its intended purpose. It has become a milch cow to politicians and the mafia-bureaucracy nexus. Best is to abolish MUDA and allow private players to fill in the vacuum under a special legislation. —K.B. Ganapathy Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA)…
By K.B. Ganapathy, Sr. Journalist Mysore/Mysuru: It is obvious when this subject of coffee growers and Bagar Hukum was discussed in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly yesterday by the honourable members and the mention was made of Form 50, 53, 57 relating to the years of 1991, 1999 and 2018, one could assume that a large…
2024 Parliamentary Election: Whither Opposition and Congress? The Parliamentary election 2024 is only a couple of months away and the nation is experiencing a new kind of election fever which we have not seen except in 1977, the post-Emergency Parliamentary election. Then, as expected, the newly cobbled up Opposition parties, under the dynamic and well-accepted…
Defender of Faith and Renaissance Man of India The 2024 Parliamentary election is only a couple of months away. Looking back, in the last 10 years, it has been a golden decade for India. The credit should indeed go to BJP Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi. I am sure this kind of approbation of Modi’s…
A white paper on the Group Housing Project of MUDA, since the days of the legendary CITB Chairman D. Madegowda, should be published before the government clears the present DPR By K.B. Ganapathy, Senior Journalist Mysore/Mysuru: The information that the MUDA is launching a Group Housing Project in different layouts and in different phases is…
Saluting Dr. Filliozat, Padma Shri awardee When a French Sanskrit Scholar Dr. Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, a resident of Mysuru, was awarded the prestigious national civil honour Padma Shri, I was not surprised. Star of Mysore had the honour of introducing him to its readers many years ago as a Sanskrit scholar, who had done research on…
Sir, Now that the most magnificent and biggest among all the Sri Rama Temples in the world has been consecrated and thrown open to devotees, it is time Hindus in this country ensured that no temporal authority, the government, controlled and managed (as in some cases) the Hindu temples as it is happening now. At…
From today it is only seven days for the consecration of Ram Lalla’s (baby Rama) idol at a ceremony in Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir. Monday, 22nd January, 2024, will be a red letter day for all the Hindus all over the world because that will be the day when the Hindus of the world will be…
As part of the 1064th Jayanti celebrations of Suttur Mutt Founder Sri Shivarathreeshwara Shivayogi at Suttur Srikshetra in Nanjangud taluk this morning, Suttur Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji felicitated prominent personalities from different fields, who received Honorary Doctorates from Universities and Rajyotsava Awards from the State Government. Sitting from left: Star of Mysore Founder –…
Whenever a soldier of my country died in war or peace, I always felt a tad diminished as a citizen of this country. That was how I felt this morning on hearing the news of passing away of Maj. Gen. C.K. Karumbaya SM, (retd.) in city. He belonged to Kodava community of Codanda family and…
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