My friend Sudhir was away in Spain and Portugal for 20 days and returned a few days back. He was in Mysuru yesterday on some business and came to see me. “Rain in Spain falls mainly on the Plain,” I began asking him, “Is it true?” He laughed and said he was actually in Lisbon,…
By K.B. Ganapathy Recently, the Deputy Director of Pre-University Education Department (DDPUE), Mysuru, Jayaprakash was caught red-handed by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths while accepting Rs. 25,000 as part of the Rs. 2.5 lakh bribe which he had allegedly demanded from the management of Vijayachetana PU College in Kuvempunagar, for renewal of licence. Generally in such…
By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief Residents Lose Hope Mysuru: Following the report published in Star of Mysore yesterday (July 7) about years of stalemate in resolving the question of “B-Kharab” “A-Kharab” etc., and with no solution in sight, the victims of these MUDA layouts planning to launch another protest on July 12, Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep…
By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief Mysuru: With former Member of Parliament and senior leader Adaguru H. Vishwanath quitting Congress to join Janata Dal (Secular) there is inevitability for the Congress party to find a suitable candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Mysuru-Kodagu Parliamentary Constituency. Vishwanath, a former Congress MP, quit the party as…
By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief Those were the days of government hospitals and private doctors. The words clinic and family doctors came later. This was followed by that rare breed FRCS and MRCP, all from England. By 1970s, transfiguration in the medical horizon began. A large number of private hospitals, corporate hospitals and specialists with Indian…
Sincere and honest persons earn their living by sincere and honest work. Dishonest persons do so by cheating those who work and earn. To the category of dishonest parasites who thrive by cheating the credulous among honest workers belong the teachers, preachers and priests of dubious religions and cults; Mystics, Saints, Arahants and Sidhas who…
Mysuru: Following the publication of a letter titled ‘Elephant Circle vandalised yet again. Will City Corporation act?’ (Star of Mysore dated June 27) and KBG’s Point Blank titled ‘Vandalising iconic public sculptures, buildings etc.’ (SOM dated June 28), the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Public Relations Officer, in a press release, has clarified that the civic…
By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief Yesterday, Star of Mysore had published a letter in its Voice of the Reader column from a city tax-payer, with a sense of beauty and aesthetics, about the disfigurement of newly-constructed uniquely beautiful Elephant Circle by pasting posters on its pedestal (see pic). This morning while I was driving by the…
It was a happy Saturday for me. Morning breakfast in a city restaurant with Rotary friends to cut the birthday cake, savour it and say ‘Many happy returns of the day’ to our fellow Rotarian Raghavan. This was followed by a film show sponsored by the birthday boy in the evening. My Saturday was done….
Thus spake Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa on Life and Literature Dr. Ramachandra Guha steals the thunder ! As an Englishman boasted, whenever there is trouble in Heaven, the Gods send for an Englishman. The magic of English language, if not the Englishman, seems to endure not only in India but also in all parts of the…
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