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…
Tributes to Dr. A. A. Kuttappa: A gentleman in his profession & social life
December 3, 2021By 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…
Glad tidings for medical doctors and hospitals
December 1, 2021Since 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…
Musings on a Tamil film Jai Bhim
November 16, 2021While 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…
Dr. B.S. Ajaikumar: Man with a Mission
November 2, 2021On 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…
‘I am the glorious Past. Leave me alone,’ says the Pyramid Sphinx
October 26, 2021Yesterday’s Deccan Herald had carried a pictorial item under the column ‘World at a glance’ which interested me. It was about the Great Pyramids of Giza, near Cairo, Egypt. Since I had visited these Pyramids, I was naturally interested. The picture with caption which is self-explanatory is produced above. I thought it is going to…
Musings on MySugar: May the sugar be sweeter
October 23, 2021Air-India comes back to TATAs ; Business of Government is not to be in business Our Mandya farmers must be the happier lot now. After years of uncertainty about the local Sugar Factory (Mysore Sugar Company Limited) which was deep in loss and was virtually closed, the farmers whose primary commercial crop is sugarcane, heard…
Musings on Annual Report of an Education Fund
October 18, 2021A couple of days back I received the Annual Report of the Coorg Education Fund, Madikeri, Kodagu, like in the past few years. Though I hardly go through it, it is a reminder that I am a Life Member of this Fund. I don’t even remember when and how I became a Life Member. Let…
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mysuru Kendra: Remembering Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurthy
October 4, 2021In the human garden, where flowers bloom, Mathoorji was also one; but one that was perfumed spreading subtle fragrance. On 25th September 2021, I had the privilege of unveiling the bust of Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurthy at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s (BVB) Sports Ground named after him, at Vijayanagar I Stage. That event sent me down…
Recalling a plague epidemic of 1907 in times of COVID-19 pandemic
September 27, 2021Coronavirus, the COVID-19, had taken its toll of human beings all over this planet earth since 2019 and presently threatening to enter its III Phase, as experts call, to attack the children too… Mercifully our scientists have come up with an effective (almost) vaccination to contain the pandemic — immunisation by vaccination. But this should…
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