[Continued from yesterday] By N. Niranjan Nikam Star of Mysore (SOM): You lost your wife Nisha Meneses when you were just 33-years-old. Why have you chosen to remain single, because, just after first 34 pages when you write about her in the book “Devil’s Advocate,” it touches a raw nerve in all of us? Karan…
If Obama thinks he has a right to ask for questions, I have a right to give him questions I won’t ask [Continued from yesterday] By N. Niranjan Nikam Star of Mysore (SOM): As interviewers we never like to share questions in advance. But you have said talking about US President Barack Obama how he…
Interviewing people is an art and especially on television one needs a lot of skill, intelligence, wit and presence of mind to interview celebrities and more so the politicians. Ace TV Show host Karan Thapar is one such outstanding interviewer who with his grim, dour appearance, raises the hackles of the interviewees to the extent…
By N. Niranjan Nikam Mine is not a hotel that I can give statistics as to how many patients come, as some people come here without telling their wives for tests. And I also have such a bad memory, unlike my father, Dr. N. Kannan, who even today at 82 has a sharp memory, that…
Kannan Diagnostic Centre in the heart of the city is celebrating its Golden Jubilee today (May 5). The pioneer, who started the first private Pathology Lab in Mysuru, is the gentle Dr. N. Kannan, who has been looking through the microscope since nearly 57 years. The reticent octogenarian Dr. Kannan, who has shunned publicity all…
By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] Star of Mysore (SOM): In spite of being a very successful actress, you did face financial crisis at a very young age itself. Does stardom make people become careless? Saroja Devi: You are right, I had to pay a very heavy price. Income Tax is something that nobody…
By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] Star of Mysore (SOM): Very few heroines have had the opportunity to be paired with top stars in the country and you name the leading actors of your time you have acted with them. The list includes MGR, Rajkumar, N.T. Rama Rao, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Kalyan Kumar,…
Nostalgia — World of Cinema There are actors and there are stars in the cinema world. But a combination of both is very rare like the legendary stars M.G. Ramachandran, N.T. Rama Rao and Dr. Rajkumar in the South Indian film industry. To this league belongs a female star, who has straddled the cinema world…
[Continued from yesterday] By N. Niranjan Nikam SOM: Traffic Police impose fines here also. Dr. Hiroya Fujisaki: Japanese are more law-abiding people. Also major cities have lot of traffic lights, may be too much. But all the lights are installed through this mathematical theory to minimise loss (which means more stops there is time loss)…
Swami Vivekananda’s love for Japan is well-known. He had said, “I would wish that everyone of our young men could visit Japan once at least in his lifetime to see how Japanese talk and work more unlike Indians.” To this ilk belongs Dr. Hiroya Fujisaki Professor-Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and a Professor in…
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