Like raindrops that keep falling through the foliage hours after the rain has stopped, I am coming back to an episode in the recently held (July 23-24) Mysuru Literature Festival. That was about the conversation that Ravi Joshi moderated with two journalists in their avatar as authors, nay biographers. They were Sagarika Ghose who wrote…
[Continued from yesterday] Later during the tea break I met Geetan- jali Shree at the writers’ lounge. I asked her what exactly the title of the book meant or suggested. Yes, she was queried about the title at the session and she had answered in English but interspersing it with Hindi. I did not really…
I love myself and I have complete freedom to flap my wings and I do not need anyone’s permission to do so: Dr. Akkai Padmashali Mysore/Mysuru: Inclusivity is still a far cry for the queer community. Bengaluru-based transgender activist and author Dr. Akkai Padmashali gave a rights-oriented perspective on the transgender struggle for equality and…
Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Agnipath’ scheme — a radical recruitment policy for the armed forces under which ‘Agniveers’ are hired on four-year contract for the three defence services — will help in character building and will empower the nation’s youth with military prowess, said Dr. Krishna Rau, paediatric haematologist and oncologist from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. He…
Mysore/Mysuru: Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda (HDD) is the leader of mass leaders, said journalist and writer Sugata Srinivasaraju. He was speaking at a session on ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ along with journalists Sagarika Ghose and Ravi Joshi. “Although Deve Gowda has spent most of his years in Karnataka, his diverse national imagination and sincerity…
Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that education in our country nowadays is limited to just teaching lessons, noted educationist and Orator Dr. Gururaj Karajagi regretted that our education had failed in teaching culture and human values. He was speaking on the topic ‘Shikshana – Dhanatmaka Chinthanegalu, Manaviya Moulyagalu’ on the concluding day of the 6th Mysuru Literature Festival…
Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Nenapu Anantha,’ a book written by Esther Ananthamurthy, wife of late writer Dr. U.R. Ananthamurthy, was released by Prof. V.K. Natraj on the concluding day of Mysuru Literature Festival, a flagship literary event of Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs-2015, here yesterday. After the release, Esther read out a portion of…
The Mysuru Literature Festival, launched by that dynamic bubbling young lady of our regal city, also a city of education, art and literature, had to go ‘underground’ due to COVID-19 during 2020 and 2021. However, the new technology came to its rescue and it surfaced as online Literature Festivals of 2020 and 2021. Well, no…
“We thought Kapil Dev was crazy but his self-belief got us thinking maybe it was true. We went out and beat them quite comfortably and suddenly thought to ourselves, we can do this.” Mysore/Mysuru: The one-and-a-half-hour session on “Life’s lessons from the 1983 World Cup victory” led by legendary India cricketer Krishnamachari (Kris) Srikkanth as…
Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree says people wrongly think they can change course of history Mysore/Mysuru: The Sixth Season of the Mysuru Literature Festival that was inaugurated last afternoon at Hotel Southern Star on Vinoba Road had an interesting session where Booker Prize-winning author Geetanjali Shree dwelled upon translation and its inner ramifications. The festival…
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