Sir, All the roads around Gokulam Park road is now in perennial darkness after replacing the existing tubelights, sodium vapour lamps and neon street-lights with a low quality, low luminance LED streetlights.  Gokulam Park road area is a purely residential one and the residents, especially the senior citizens and the children are finding it difficult…

Ply direct buses from Kuvempunagar Depot in Mysuru to Electronic City & Whitefield in Bengaluru Sir, After a long COVID break, slowly companies at Bengaluru are limping back to normalcy. Now  work from home is  getting transformed into work in respective offices/companies, resulting to travel by KSRTC buses during weekends (Friday evenings) from Electronic City,…

Sir, As a regular user of Lingambudhi Park over several years, I have seen many incidents of misuse of this public park and its surroundings by irresponsible visitors as also many contract workers of the Forest Department. Because of several sandalwood trees in this vast park, many attempts have been made to cut the trees…

Sir, The images above are of the Leadenhall Market situated in the Central district of London. This structure was built in 14th century as a meat market and the original design was very similar to Devaraja Market of Mysuru. This market is situated in the middle of the financial district with each square foot of…

Sir, I would like to bring to the notice of authorities concerned the bad condition of High Tension Double Road connecting Contour Road in Gokulam on one side and Ring Road on the other. It is a very busy road with an Engineering College and shopping area. It is also used by motorists going to…

Sir, The monkeys near the temple atop the Chamundi Hill are proving to be dangerous to the visitors of late. They roam around without fear of humans and attack those who are carrying bags containing fruits and prasadams collected inside the temple. While it is a comic sight for the bystanders, it must undoubtedly be…

Sir, Bogadi II Stage, 2nd Cross, is full of stray dogs. They are aggressive and pound on anything that moves. I am a very senior citizen and I can’t go to park, store etc. The entire stretch from Bogadi bridge down the lanes, there are only stray dogs. I request the authorities concerned to look…

Sir, This is a picture from Vijayanagar 4th Stage, Mysuru, that illustrates indifference to environmental degradation by manufacturers and consumers of plastics. There seems to be an over-dependence on the “authorities” to keep the area clean each day even as we the residents of Vijayanagar dump plastic and other waste on pristine green and open…

Sir, One can see hundreds of students waiting for the city bus in the bus stop on Bogadi-Gaddige Main Road to reach their schools and colleges on time. But there are only a few number of buses plying during that time in which not only the students even other public travel to reach their destinations….

Sir, I was totally baffled to read in Star of Mysore how CESC is taking the hapless power consumers of Mysuru to ransom by frequent power shutdown throughout the day from 10 am to 5 pm causing utter inconvenience and untold mental agony to domestic, industrial, educational and IT employees with no room to protest…