Tall leaders make great nations During the years of Nehru as Prime Minister, we had many brilliant, intellectual and honest persons in his cabinet, in national institutions and in public sector units. They came from across all religions and regions. The words Socialist and Secular were not in the Preamble of our Constitution. Yet, it…
Dance of Democracy in Rajya Sabha
August 11, 2024Jaya Ho Jagdeep Dhankhar Friday 9th August, 2024, trouble broke out in the Rajya Sabha when the Congress MPs demanded an apology from BJP member Ghanshyam Tiwari for a comment he had made on Mallikarjun Kharge last week. Chairman of the Rajya Sabha (and Vice-President of India) Jagdeep Dhankhar did not agree with the Congress…
Rediscovering Revenue Land loot after 29 years: T.M. Vijay Bhaskar Report!
July 24, 2024In the midst of the raging fire in the administration of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) regarding arbitrary, gratuitous and illegal allotment of house sites under its ambiguously worded 50:50 scheme to compensate the land-losers, we heard an NGO, Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP), crooning about a 29-year-old Revenue Department scam that was buried in the…
Waiting for second coming of Donald Trump -2
July 21, 2024[Continued from July 19] After seeing the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and then seeing him at the Republican Party National Convention at Milwaukee on TV, I get the feeling that the 2024 November Presidential Election is going to be Donald Trump’s show. The world TV viewers are sure to spend more time watching America’s…
Samskrutotsava contest at BVB
July 20, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Samskrutotsava 2024-25, an inter-school Sanskrit competition, was held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB) School, here this morning. The event was inaugurated by Sukanya Ramasheshaiah, Head, Department of Sanskrit, Mahajana High School. About 135 students representing 29 schools from Mysuru city took part in the contest. The competition included recital of Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit,…
Waiting for Donald Trump -1
July 19, 2024It was a great escape, a providential escape from sure death for Donald Trump. An assassin’s bullet just grazed his right ear. There was blood. There was evil. It is believed Democracy does not draw blood to choose its leader, ruler. But unfortunately it does draw blood like it happened with Donald Trump last Saturday…
Time to remember prophetic words of former Mysuru DC
July 15, 2024Among animals man is considered a sapient animal with five sensory organs and also a sixth sense. One may call it by multiple names — gut feeling, omen, intuition or power of prophesy. Some people have the power to foresee what is to come either by observing the past events connected to a subject matter…
Modi the PM who walks on the razor’s edge -2
July 10, 2024A book on Modi as a Leader tells it all [Continued from yesterday] The author of the book, Dr. Balasubramaniam (he is a Medical Doctor) aptly describes Modi as a visionary leader because only such leaders can take risk and try new things. And Modi does take risk and try new schemes, new laws. Much…
Modi the PM who walks on the razor’s edge -1
July 9, 2024A book on Modi as a Leader tells it all A leader must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.” — APJ Abdul Kalam, Scientist and former President of India. The two-day Mysuru Literature Festival-2024 excellently…
Musings on writers of Indian History
July 5, 2024Right-wing historians have arrived! I have noticed an increase in the number of writers of History of India — Social history, economic history, religious history and political history — after 2014 when Modi Government came to power. There was a perception that the old history of India written by the Islamic, Mughal and Colonial historians…
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