By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] Star of Mysore (SOM): After a long time, you are celebrating your birthday in Mysuru because at this time you would be away on teaching and performing assignments in the US. What is it like to teach and perform there? Pandit Rajeev Taranath: Well, it is mainly performing…
By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] Star of Mysore (SOM): So that is how your childhood was? Pandit Rajeev Taranath: Yes, a part. I kept myself busy with books than what the other boys of my age did; they played some game or something. I also played, but my mother got me back home…
There is a saying: “Child Prodigy, Adult Tragedy.” Very few child prodigies go on to become legends. However, there is one legend amidst us today — octogenarian Sarod Maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath. He is a person who has straddled the two worlds of academics and music with equal élan. But it is through his music,…
By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] SOM: As you grow older how do you feel? You have earned name and fame as a prominent Karnataka poet. Now what? Prof. Nissar Ahmed: Oh well, there is no end to desire. I have lived a fine, comfortable and a very colourful life (a bemused smile). Never…
By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] SOM: Many of your poems are futuristic as much realistic. If one takes ‘Kurigalu Saar Kurigalu…’ it is true to the prevailing political and social situation. Whether it is theocracy, autocracy, democracy or communism we as ‘Kurigalu,’ can never change. Is it an awakening call that we should…
Poets are in that rarefied atmosphere where most of the times a majority of readers do not understand what they write. However, the fact is that the sensitivity and sensibilities they display in their poems do touch the hearts of millions. Their popularity soars when their poems become signature songs like Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Jana Gana…
The Dasara tradition traces back to Raja Wadiyar who, following the pomp and pageantry of the Vijayanagar rulers, started the Dasara celebrations in 1610 at Srirangapatna. Continuing this legacy today is Rajamata Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, who is a part of the celebrations since 41 years. Sitting on the sofa next to the one where her…
When Star of Mysore Features Editor N. Niranjan Nikam travelled all the way to meet the Sharp-Shooter at his den in the midst of the jungle at the Safari Land Resorts in Masinagudi, Tamil Nadu, Nawab Shafath Ali Khan and his son Asghar Ali Khan, drove this writer in the jungle in their American Jeep…
The crux of the man-animal conflict today is that old, weak and handicapped species are pushed out of the forest by the younger and stronger animals. These animals before they could create havoc were eliminated. The village folks were happy, revenge killing was never heard of and we didn’t have elephants straying into private lands…
Lover of wildlife, celebrated hunter, sharp-shooter, tranquillising expert and more… Dwindling forest covers, rampaging rogue elephants, man-eating tigers and man-animal conflict are all very frightening realities in today’s world, especially in our country. The Forest Departments across the country are faced with these huge challenges. In spite of their best efforts, the problems persist. However,…
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