Sir, I would like to appeal to the MCC officials to stop dumping of garbage near the entrance of muda Park in Vijayanagar 3rd Stage, C-Block. It causes great inconvenience to the walkers and joggers as it emanates bad smell and poses health risks to the person approaching the Park. Apart from this, packs of…

Sir, Covid-19 that hit the world as a pandemic forced countries all over the globe to change over to ‘Remote Learning’ or what is popularly known as ‘Online Teaching.’ Due to the pandemic, school buildings are closed, campus gates locked and a new online teaching has emerged with mostly recorded videos and sometimes live sessions….

Sir, The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has computerised the property tax assessment from this year. On obtaining a copy of the previous year’s assessment, they process and issue a computerised tax assessment letter. Property tax is computed by taking into account the market value of the land and the cost of the building. The ground…

Sir, The Vijayanagar Main Road stretching from Ring Road, all the way up to Kalidasa Road, is in a pathetic condition since the last two years. It has been dug up by multiple agencies including Vani Vilas Water Works for laying water pipes/UGD lines and Telecom Companies. There are big open pits at so many…

Sir, After reading KBG’s 3-part Abracadabra on Fali S. Nariman, India’s Advocate Extraordinaire, in SOM recently, I was reminded of my visit to Delhi in the year 2005. We were staying with my brother’s son-in-law Brijesh Kalappa (a Supreme Court advocate) who was close to the Narimans. Apparently Brijesh had told the Narimans about our…

Sir, The only way to curb traffic rule violations in city is to go back to the penalties issued by the Central Government and in my opinion we should increase the punishment period. If a rider or driver is caught breaking the traffic law on three consecutive times within a period of 6 months, his…

Sir, Apropos Dr. Javeed Nayeem’s recent write-up on Dr. Kannan, yes, it happened during the lockdown and I am sure being a humble, caring and honest person that he was, he wouldn’t have wished for a showy farewell. Dr. Kannan, a father like figure, who was well-known as a family doctor, especially to most of…

Sir, In his column ‘Over a Cup of Evening Tea,’ Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem has lovingly paid a fulsome praise in portraying the personality of late Dr. N. Kannan, who left for his heavenly abode on the 31st May 2020. Ever since I settled down in Mysuru in 1992 after my return to this city,…

Sir, This refers to online classes for primary and high school students. I wonder how parents who live in the rural or remote places with no/ less network coverage will cope up with this system. If both parents are working, how will they help their children during online classes? If a parent has got two…

Sir, Now that the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) has been made the sole University to conduct Distance Education throughout Karnataka, it has assumed as a Central University with higher responsibility to educate those persons who are not able to attend classes in regular colleges due to their other obligations. The KSOU can now plan…