Mysore/Mysuru: Rich tributes were paid to Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Nation, across the city on Sarvodaya Day today, that marked the 75th death anniversary of the Mahatma. Floral tributes were paid to the bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Bhavan in Manasagangothri this morning, where noted critique and thinker Prof. H.S. Raghavendra Rao…
Mysore/Mysuru: “We all should imbibe the ideology of Mahatma Gandhi who propagated the message of peace to the entire world and also the simplicity and integrity of Lal Bahadur Shastri. Gandhiji’s simplicity and leadership qualities have been hailed and accepted by the entire world,” said District Minister S.T. Somashekar. The Minister was speaking after garlanding…
Over 30 statues in city and Mysore Varsity campus spread message of peace, non-violence By M.T. Yogesh Kumar If statues could record the goings-on before them, many statues of the Father of the Nation in Mysuru city and in the campus of the University of Mysore (UoM) would be among the most valuable repositories of…
Recently I was invited by Swami Muktidanandaji, head of Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysuru, to speak on Swami Vivekananda’s vision for India at the Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE), Yadavagiri. Produced below is an extract of that talk I thought of sharing with ‘Star of Mysore’ readers: The subject of my talk is indeed…
Mysore/Mysuru: “Uppara community played a prominent role in the Salt March to Dandi, a people’s movement against the British rule launched by Mahatma Gandhi during the freedom struggle,” said Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra. He was speaking at the Bhagiratha Jayanthi function organised jointly by the District Administration, Department of Kannada and Culture and Sri Bhagiratha…
By Girija Madhavan The Past is over, you cannot get back to it. Live each day anew,” was written in the Autograph Books of our school days. In these days of uncertainty and menace, it is a comfort to reach back in memory to the lovely old Mysore of my childhood and briefly revisit the…
The Mysuru District Administration, Mysuru City Corporation and Seshadripuram Degree College had organised a programme at the Town Hall and also at MCC premises this morning to commemorate the civic honour accorded to Mahatma Gandhi during his visit to Mysuru on Feb. 3 in 1927. Gandhiji is said to have inspected the MCC building which…
Mysore/Mysuru: Garlanding of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue and busts and offering of floral tributes to the Mahatma’s portraits marked the 152nd Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations across the city this morning. Today is also the 116th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. District Minister S.T. Somashekar garlanded the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Square…
Mysore/Mysuru: Stating that Mahatma Gandhi was a great humanist, University of Mysore (UoM) Vice-Chancellor Prof. G. Hemantha Kumar said that Gandhiji travelled around the globe spreading the message of non-violence and truth. He was speaking after inaugurating ‘Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav’ programme organised jointly by the Centre for Gandhian Studies, UoM and NSS Wing of…
By K. Vijaya Kumar, Former Jt. Director of Information & Publicity The firebrand Gandhian who brought women into Satyagraha Movement The recently held function on Yashodharamma Dasappa — Ondu Nenapu took my memory back over 60 years to remember this Gandhian and social reformer which Mysore cannot forget. It was in 1968-69 when I was…
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