Culturally speaking, this month’s mega event for Mysuru city was the holding of the Third Edition of Mysuru Literature Festival (MLF) organised by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust in conjunction with Mysuru Book Clubs-2015 at Hotel Southern Star for two days, nay for one-and-a-half-days, beginning Saturday at 2 pm. The fest was inaugurated by Dowager…
Gag on media, falling revenues discussed at Mysuru lit fest
July 14, 2019Mysuru: An organised efforts were on to make the media toe the line of the rulers or else to gag them either by hook or crook, said NDTV Managing Editor Sreenivasan Jain. He was speaking on the topic ‘Is the Fourth Pillar of Democracy still strong?’ at the session organised as part of the third…
Pramoda Devi lauds Literary Festival topics
July 14, 2019Mysuru: The third edition of the Mysuru Literature Festival began here on Saturday with author Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik delivering his key-note address on “Ramayana Vs Mahabharata”. Pramoda Devi Wadiyar from the erstwhile Mysuru Royal family inaugurated the two-day fest, organised by the Mysuru Literary Forum and Charitable Trust and Mysuru book clubs at Hotel Southern…
Press freedom remains misnomer even today: Shobhaa De
July 14, 2019Mysuru: “Press freedom though hyped about over the years remains a misnomer even today as censorship still exists,” opined Writer Shobhaa De. She was replying to a question posed by Writer Mahesh Rao during a panel discussion on ‘Shobhaa at 70 — Selective memory’ on the second and concluding day of the third edition of…
Ramayana and Mahabharata have parallels: Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik
July 14, 2019Mysuru: Delivering the keynote address during the inauguration of the two-day Mysuru Literature Festival, Mythologist, Writer and Star of Mysore columnist Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik said that both the two greatest epics-Ramayana and Mahabharata, are selling people the idea of Dhamastastra. Speaking on his book ‘Ramayana versus Mahabharata,’ he said that the authors of the epics-Valmiki…
Two-day Mysuru Literature Festival begins
July 13, 2019Pramoda Devi Wadiyar lighting the lamp to inaugurate the third edition of Mysuru Literature Festival (MLF), organised by the Mysuru Literary Forum and Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs (2015), at Hotel Southern Star in city this afternoon as (from left) Trust Vice-Chairman Sam Cherian, Chairperson Shubha Sanjay Urs and DC Abhiram G. Sankar look…
Third Edition of Mysuru Literature Festival begins tomorrow
July 12, 2019Mysuru: The third edition of Mysuru Literature Festival (MLF), organised by the Mysuru Literary Forum and Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs (2015) will kick off tomorrow at Hotel Southern Star with Pramoda Devi Wadiyar inaugurating the festival at 2 pm at Jyothi Hall. It will be followed with a keynote address by Dr. Devdutt…
Third edition of Mysuru Literature Festival on July 13, 14
July 8, 2019• To feature retrospective on Jnanpith Awardee Girish Karnad • Ex-CEC Navin Chawla, journalist Shoba De, NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain, Filmmaker T.S. Nagabharana, former Ambassador Nirupama Rao to participate Mysuru: The third edition of the Mysuru Literature Festival (MLF),organised by the Mysuru Literary Forum and Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs (2015), will be inaugurated by…
Second Edition of Mysuru Literature Festival: Talks with Kashmiris only way to peace in the region: Former R&AW Chief Dulat
November 22, 2018Atal Bihari Vajpayee is still worshipped in Kashmir Mysuru: The concluding session at Thangaali during the Second Mysuru Literature Festival, organised by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs 2015 on Sunday last at Wind Chimes, Nazarbad, was titled “Where the mind is without fear.” This had former Top Chief of Research and…
Second Edition of Mysuru Literature Festival: Panellists trade ‘wild’ barbs on tiger Avni’s death
November 21, 2018[Continued from yesterday] If there was one session that everyone was looking forward to at the Second Mysuru Literature Festival, organised by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs 2015 on Sunday, it was on wildlife called “Trails of Free Spirits.” And sure enough the distinguished panel all steeped in wildlife experience did…
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