Sir, The recent murder of R.N. Kulkarni, a retired IB Officer, is chilling and shameful as it occurred in a country where each individual is promised to be treated equally and protected. Also, in a country to which he offered selfless and immeasurable service. I particularly felt affinity to the stand-point of Mr. Kulkarni as…

Sir, I fully endorse the views of Vijay Hemmige with regard to ‘Online payment of water bills’ in SOM dated Nov. 10. The approach to the location of the cash counter in Vijayanagar is horrible. Every time while making the payment, I used to get a response to my query on the progress of online…

Sir, I would like to pay my last respects to the departed personality of our city in this way: “In your Service in IB, you dared the deadly head hunters in Nagaland, worked through disturbances on North East in most blood chilling period, protected the Nation from many deadly attacks of Terror Cells, daringly contributed…

Sir, Dr. Javeed Nayeem, in his article titled ‘A mother first and everything else, only later!’ under his weekly column ‘Over a Cup of Evening Tea’ (Star of Mysore dated Nov. 6) says he  was delighted and distressed referring to an incident when a mother, an IAS Officer of Kerala cadre cuddling her toddler son…

Sir, This is with reference to the news item titled “Echo of ex-IB Officer’s murder: Public entry banned to Manasagangothri Campus” published in Star of Mysore dated Nov. 7. From decades public are being allowed for morning and evening walk in the lush green campus although of late it is being concretised. One off such…

Sir, At the junction near All India Institute of Speech and Hearing on Bogadi Road, a signal pole and an electric pole next to each other are installed on the main road itself, thus blocking the traffic and creating bottleneck for smooth movement of vehicles.  On behalf of the motorists, I request the authorities to…

Sir, While the whole country is moving on fast track with digital payments, including footpath vendors, it seems that MCC is still in deep sleep.  Since February 2022, the water bill which used to be generated online has disappeared.  On enquiry with the concerned, the answer is ‘they are working’. I wonder here what is…

Sir, Much has been written and spoken about grand Dasara illumination. But sadly the Mysore Palace illumination was very bad to say the least. For those of us who are born and brought up in Mysuru  and who have seen the old  Palace illumination with incandescent bulbs, the present led bulbs are a disaster so…

Sir, Recently, our travel to Mangaluru from Mysuru by road was particularly inconvenient and chaotic from Mani in Puttur to B.C. Road in Bantwal as the stretch is in complete chaos due to the National Highway 75 (NH 75) 4-lane expansion works. It is particularly very unsafe for motor vehicles due to the non-existence of…

Sir, Vande Bharat Express — previously known as Train 18, a semi-high-speed, electric multiple unit train — from Chennai to Mysuru to be inaugurated on Nov. 11 by Prime Minister Modi puts Mysuru on the map of semi-high-speed rail. Thanks to our MP Pratap Simha. But the question that remains in everyone’s mind is: Is…