[Continued from yesterday] Later during the tea break I met Geetan- jali Shree at the writers’ lounge. I asked her what exactly the title of the book meant or suggested. Yes, she was queried about the title at the session and she had answered in English but interspersing it with Hindi. I did not really…
Yesterday morning as I sat at my working desk, there sat a brown cover addressed to me on the table. It came from Palanganda T. Bopanna, a journalist author from Bengaluru. Inside was a thin book with a thick hard cover embellished with the photograph of the author in his ethnic Kodava headgear of a…
No reforms in administration can be expected till a Chief Minister like Nalwadi comes to power: KBG Mysore/Mysuru: The book titled ‘Kavyagalalli Wadeyaru,’ authored by senior journalist and Star of Mysore columnist Gouri Satya, was released by Rajachandra of Mysore royal family at a programme organised by Bharati Prakashana, Mysuru, in association with Parampare, Mysuru,…
Ten years ago on one Wednesday, 13th June, 2012, Star of Mysore had made an appeal along with Rotary Mysore to our kind and philanthropist readers to contribute their mite to financially help baby H.C. Ganesh, then one-year-eight-month-old, who was born with congenital loss of hearing and as a consequence, he was unable to speak,…
After November 2019, I was hibernating (or was it hiding?) in my house afraid of the rakshasa (demon) called COVID-19. It was only in the last two months I chose to attend selected public functions. I attended one such selected public function yesterday. It was the foundation laying ceremony for Swami Vivekananda Memorial Cultural Youth…
A month back Sujata Rajpal, writer and a home-maker who contributes articles and interviews of VIPs for Star of Mysore, gave me a book of modest size, in English of course, saying ‘read it and let me know.’ So here I am. The book ‘The Life I Saw’ is an autobiography of a Punjabi lady…
Mysore/Mysuru: Kamakshi Hospital, one of the major and prestigious Hospitals of the city, located in Kuvempunagar, celebrated its 49th Anniversary and Founder’s Day at the Hospital premises on Wednesday. Kamakshi Hospital, started in April,1973, is due to celebrate its Golden Jubilee celebrations next year. The Hospital, which was set up by late Bantwal Madhava Shenoy…
If majority rule, after headcount, is not Democracy, then what is? As the TV panellist said, it could only be a skewed Democracy ‘by the political parties, of the political parties and for the political parties.’ I have read that history is past politics and politics is present history. If so, I am tempted to…
Political pundits define politics as an art of possibilities. Some call it an act of bravado. The ultimate goal is to capture political power that overrides all other powers that one can possess — wealth, education, professional success and social status. Birbal might be an intelligent, wise man, but Akbar was the supreme, political authority,…
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is the new-age Hindu Saint with his sprawling Ashram near Coimbatore at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, sanctified with a temple for Yoga Guru Patanjali, the originator of Yoga for those living in Bharat following Sanatana Vedic Dharma. Tomorrow is International Day of Yoga (IDY). There are also temples for Shiva…
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