Mysore/Mysuru: Kannada activists, led by noted littérateurs Dr. C.P. Krishnakumar (CPK) and Prof. K.S. Bhagawan, staged a protest in front of the DC’s office in city yesterday, urging the Government to allow writing Bank Exams in Kannada. The agitators contended that Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed writing Bank Exams in regional languages. But…
Ink attack on Prof. Bhagawan’s face in Bengaluru; DSS holds protest in city
February 5, 2021Mysuru/Bengaluru: Members of Dalit Sangarsha Samiti (DSS) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) jointly staged a protest in city this morning against splashing ink by an advocate on Prof. K.S. Bhagawan, a noted social thinker at the Court complex in Bengaluru yesterday. The protest was led by DSS District Committee President Choranahalli Shivanna and…
Writer Prof. K.S. Bhagawan urges Govt. to install D. Devaraj Urs Statue in Mysuru
December 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Senior writer Prof. K.S. Bhagawan has urged the Government to install the statue of former Chief Minister D. Devaraj Urs in Mysuru before his (Urs) next birth anniversary on Aug.20,2021. He was speaking at a seminar on the thoughts of D. Devaraj Urs, organised jointly by D. Devaraj Urs Prathime Prathistapana Samithi and Mysuru…
Award for Prof. K.S. Bhagawan’s book
May 23, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Rama Mandira Yeke Beda?,’ authored by Prof. K.S. Bhagawan and ‘Arive Pramanu’ authored by Mahanthappa Nandur Hubbali have been selected for the award given by Srimati Amaramma Sri Channabasavappa Bettaduru Pratishtana, Raichur, for best book on rationalism and Vachana literature. The awards carries a cash prize of Rs.5,000 each. The award ceremony, which was…
Derogatory remarks against Lord Rama: FIR filed against Prof. K.S. Bhagawan
January 1, 2019Mysuru: The Kuvempunagar police have filed an FIR against controversial writer of the city Prof. K.S. Bhagawan for making derogating remarks against Lord Rama in his work. Prof. Bhagawan in the second edition of his book ‘Rama Mandira Yeke Beda’, released recently, had portrayed both Lord Rama and his wife Sita in bad light. Following…
Prof. Bhagawan courts trouble again; security tightened
December 29, 2018Mysuru: Police are providing security to the controversial writer and rationalist Prof. K.S. Bhagawan to avoid untoward incidents. He often targets Lord Rama for reasons better known to him and the latest one in his book ‘Rama Mandira – Yeke Beda?’ has apparently angered many Hindu organisations. With pro-Hindu outfits threatening to go to Bhagawan’s…
‘Sticking to one religion itself is superstitious’
November 26, 2018Mysuru: Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind had organised a programme titled ‘Prophet Mohammed is the greatest guide for the mankind’ at a private hotel in city recently which also featured a multi-lingual poets meet. Speaking on the occasion, writer Prof. K.S. Bhagawan said that in Christian, Muslim and Buddhist religions, a common man can perform religious rituals and give…
Writer heaps praises on Ministers N. Mahesh and GTD
July 27, 2018Mysuru: Writer and retired professor K.S. Bhagawan has welcomed Primary and Secondary Education Minister N. Mahesh’s idea to introduce ‘Open Book’ system, which allows students to refer to text books while writing exams. Addressing a press meet here yesterday, Bhagawan said that such ‘Innovative thinking’ will help in reviving the text book reading habit among…
Srirangapatna youth given ‘supari’ to kill Prof. K.S. Bhagawan?
June 25, 2018Mysuru: Even as the SIT, which is probing the murder of senior journalist Gowri Lankesh, who was shot dead at her residence in Rajarajeshwarinagar, Bengaluru, on the night of Sept. 5, 2017, has succeeded in cracking the case, with the arrest of over four key suspects, Naveen Kumar alias Hotte Manja of Maddur, who was…
Prof. Aravind Malagatti and Prof. K.S. Bhagawan get bail in Bhagavad Gita burning remark
January 5, 2018Mysuru: The Fourth JMFC Court has granted bail to University of Mysore (UoM) faculty Prof. Aravind Malagatti and writer Prof. K.S. Bhagawan, who were accused of making remarks on burning Bhagavad Gita. The two who appeared before the Court on Thursday, were granted bail. Another UoM faculty Prof. B.P. Mahesh Chandra Guru, who is also…
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