There are two basic forms of writing. One is prose and another verse. Prose is used in speaking and writing, distinct from verse. Prose follows a basic grammatical structure. In verse, poetry, there is compromise on grammar and even use of words and phrases. It is called poetic liberty. It follows a metrical structure. With…
Concern, Confidence and Courage? [Continued from yesterday] History says, Julius Caesar, the Roman General, was giving a chase to his rival Pompey who had escaped to Egypt. Caesar and his men were in the ship. In the high seas, they were overtaken by a storm and the ship was in danger. There was commotion and…
Concern, Confidence and Courage? We often hear the refrain ‘leadership crisis.’ When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister and Vallabhbhai Patel was not there, we heard political pundits asking, ‘After Nehru who?’ A foreign journalist and author Welles Hangen had even written a book with that title in 1963, a year before Nehru died….
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Architect of the Indian Constitution, said in his speech on January 26, 1950: “If hereafter things go wrong, we will have nobody to blame except ourselves. Not to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man or to trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions….
This is the story of a Hindu Brahmin girl Indra Krishnamurthy. She was born in October 1955 in Chennai (Madras). She was a middle child, dark-skinned, tall and skinny. She had an elder sister and a younger brother. Her paternal grandfather was a retired District Judge. He built this huge house named ‘Lakshmi Nilayam’ using…
Among the many Ashrams in this deeply religious country, Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Ashram on Nanjangud Road in our city is indeed unique. It is mundane and at the same time metaphysical. Its spiritual realm is global with so many branches rendering service to the seekers of spiritual path in life. As is the tradition, this…
By K.B. Ganapathy Dr. A.A. Kuttappa, who passed away early this morning, was known in city since late 1960s as Dentist Kuttappa. Those were the days when there were not many privately practicing dentists. Most of the dental patients would go to K.R. Hospital. He was indeed lucky to have got a place for his…
Since past many years, specially after the appearance of private hospitals of star value, we have been seeing many cases of vandalism on hospitals as also attacks on doctors and claims for monetary compensation from the doctors or the hospitals that treated the patients who did not survive. In our city too, this kind of…
While leafing through the recent copy of The Week magazine, I ran into the cover-story on Justice Chandru Krishnaswamy (Chandru for short), who had retired recently and a connected interview of Suriya Sivakumar (Suriya for short), the famous Tamil film actor. Having been educated in law and seen the portals of criminal Courts and High…
On Sunday, after watching Kannada TV channels showing the burial of Kannada film world’s iconic matinee idol Puneeth Rajkumar, who had died of heart attack on Friday (Oct. 29), I came to office to get rid of that melancholic feeling. Very sad indeed. He bloomed as an actor rather early in life as a child…
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