Mysore/Mysuru: Yadathore Sri Yoganandeshwara Saraswathi Mutt Seer Sri Shankara Bharati Swamiji visited the new campus of Nypunya School of Excellence at Kanakadasanagar (Dattagalli) in city on Thursday evening. Pada puja of the Seer was also held. Blessing the school and addressing the gathering, the Swamiji said “Education is the only tool to achieve perfection in…
Book Talk: A peek into US politics and society
May 15, 2024Surprises, pleasant or unpleasant, never cease to happen in everybody’s life. Recently, I had a pleasant surprise when the Blue Dart courier delivered two books from a friend in New York, M.P. Prabhakaran. Many years ago I had written about this old journalist-friend of mine first acquainted in Mumbai where we were journalists though working…
What is in your mind, O VIP?
May 11, 2024Of our bondage to vagaries of our mind You cannot always be a hero, but you can always be a human being. —Anon It is well-known to all educated people, specially students of Political Science, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Moral corruption included. Contrarily, absolute power also enables the powerful to repay…
Musings on war-mongering and peace-loving political leaders
May 9, 2024German Dictator Adolf Hitler had famously and axiomatically said that war is first born in the mind of man. So also terrorism, one may add. Again, it is attributed to Hitler, that war is to man what maternity is to woman. When we observe the world past and present, rise and fall of empires like…
Why Govt. School and College buildings are dilapidated and rundown?
May 8, 2024The Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Karnataka, had released huge amount in crores to 460 Government First Grade Colleges in the State during the academic year 2023-24. This amount was released under non-salaries and salaries expenditure. With this funds one would expect the Principals of the respective colleges to utilise the funds for the…
Understanding Bhagavad Gita is of utmost importance: Swami Mahamedhanandaji
May 6, 2024Swami Chinmayananda Saraswathi Jayanti celebrations Mysore/Mysuru: Bhagavad Gita should not be restricted only to puja rooms, instead it should be read and understood thoroughly as preached by Swami Chinmayananda Saraswathi, said Swami Mahamedhanandaji of Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysuru. Speaking after inaugurating the 108th Jayanti Mahotsava of Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda Saraswathi organised at ‘Sri Gurudeva Datta…
People’s politician V. Sreenivasa Prasad: A Tribute
May 2, 2024I have known V. Sreenivasa Prasad since early 1979-80 as it was the time he was making news as a young, dynamic and daring politician from among the Dalits. He was the pride of Ashokapuram. Star of Mysore and its sister publication Mysuru Mithra used to cover his political and social service activities regularly. Over…
Hail! March of Indian Democracy
April 30, 2024Revisiting the past in 2024 Among academicians in Mysuru, nay in India, if at all there was a Nehru fan and loyalist, it was Prof. C.D. Narasimhaiah (CDN), Professor in English, Manasagangothri, University of Mysore (1921-2005). He was best known for his literary criticism and bringing out an abridged version of Nehru’s magnum opus ‘Discovery…
Come, let us march to the polling booths tomorrow
April 25, 2024Lok Sabha Election- 2024 is here. Tomorrow, April 26, from 7 am to 6 pm. Come, let us walk to the polling booths. Let us give our secret vote to elect our political representative who, we believe, deserves to represent us. That is your service to the country. That is your duty, dharma-karma, to your…
In passing: Saeed Akhtar Mirza
April 22, 2024In the midst of electioneering cacophony, I received an invitation from the moving spirit and ever agile Founder-Chairperson of Mysuru Book Clubs-2015 Shubha Sanjay Urs for an evening of conversation and informal interaction with Saeed Akhtar Mirza yesterday morning. I did not know who this celebrity worthy of Shubha’s attention was but Shubha was quick…
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