Mysuru: Kannada playback singer and theatre personality M.D. Pallavi and troupe entertained the gathering at the Flower Show venue in Mysore Palace premises yesterday, with their soulful rendering of Kannada Bhavageete (poetry and light music). The event was organised as part of the ongoing Winter Festival in city. The singer, granddaughter of the famous theatre…
Winter Carnival inside Palace amidst floral models
December 25, 2019The Palace Flower Show was the ‘show-stopper’ of the 10-day Winter Festival that kicked off in city yesterday. Mysuru District Minister V. Somanna and MLA G.T. Devegowda (GTD) inaugurated the Flower Show. The iconic Mysore Palace was abuzz with activity since 3 pm, hours before the Flower Show began. While local residents queued up before…
Bangalore Palace inside Mysore Palace !
December 24, 2019A replica of Bangalore Palace with Ping Pong flowers (45x10x20 feet) has blossomed inside Mysore Palace as part of the Annual Flower Show organised by the Mysore Palace Board from today. The Flower Show, which will be inaugurated at 4.30 pm today (Dec.24), will be open for visitors till Dec.31 from 9 am to 9…
Warming up for Winter
December 21, 2019Winter is here and amidst the chill weather where people are seen warming themselves up with fireplaces at every nook and corner of the city, a Winter Festival is being held to spread a feeling of warmth. The Festival will kick off from Tuesday, Dec. 24 and will end on Jan. 2. This is the…
Fake Guides and Travel Agents
December 19, 2019By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Was perusing a recent report on fake tourist guides. Are you surprised? I am not. This kind of thuggery may be a recent phenomenon in Mysuru but has been going on for years in North India. Twenty years back, I used to be General Manager of Lodhi Hotel….
Royal balustrades continue to crumble
December 17, 2019Mysuru: Raja Marga, the so-called prestigious stretch of road in city, has always been in the news for its fragile balustrades and continues to be so. Last evening one Mahadev from Gundlupet was reportedly injured near Thathaiah Park on Raja Marga when a balustrade crumbled and fell on his feet as another person walking on…
A Royal Wedding and a Birthday
December 16, 2019* Yaduveer Wadiyar’s sister Jayathmika Lakshmi ties knot with Yuvraj Divyraj Singh of Sailana, Madhya Pradesh * Little Aadyaveer showered with blessings on his second birthday Mysuru: Royalty always inspires and people lap up whatever is associated with royalty. Be it royal wedding or royal baby birthdays, the amount of literature about royalties and monarchies…
Fake tourist guides fleece visitors
December 10, 2019Audio announcement at Palace warns tourists Mysuru: Fake tourist guides are running a cartel in city where tourists are misguided and taken to various private business establishments and entertainment zones for the handsome commission they offer besides fleecing them. Out-of-State tourists or outstation visitors are dissuaded from visiting the Mysore Palace and other locations of…
US Ambassador to India visits Mysore Palace
November 30, 2019US Ambassador to India Kenneth I. Juster (second from right), who was in Mysuru on Nov.27 on a private visit, went around the Mysore Palace and the Museum the next day. The diplomat is seen with (from left) Mysore Palace Board Deputy Director T.S. Subramanya, Varchas Siddalinga Raje Urs, son of Meenakshi Devi and Omdev,…
An unplugged concert by Raghu Dixit
October 14, 2019Commemorates birth centenary of renowned composer of Karnatak kritis Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Mysuru: Renowned folk-rock musician Raghu Dixit, who has carved a niche both as an independent musician with his band, the Raghu Dixit Project, and as a composer in various film industries of the country, performed at the Mysore Palace last evening, setting the stage…















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