Sir, The stretch of footpaths on either side of 2nd Main Road and the corners connecting the cross roads in Vidyaranyapuram (near SBI Branch) is encroached by fruit /vegetable and flower vendors, two-wheelers and some times cars too. This is depriving pedestrians of their walking space and they are forced to walk on road risking…

Sir, This has reference to the views expressed by many readers in this column on the subject of online payment of water bills. I am really at a loss to understand why the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is dilly-dallying in restoring the online water bill payment facility which existed earlier. This is not a new…

Sir, When all things are getting modernised, cinema theatres are not exceptions. There are plenty of theatres with modern facilities. But it is a question mark, whether all are maintained properly for the utilisation to the viewers. They prohibit snacks brought by the viewers, just for the selling of snacks sold inside the theatres, with…

Sir, Around 40% to 45% of those who die in road accidents are pedestrians. The major cause for accidents is absence of foot-paths. Where footpaths do exist the reasons for fatalities is poor footpath design, width below specification, blocked or encroachment by vendors. The other contributory factors are absence of safe pedestrian crossing made worse…

Sir, The correspondent of the letter titled “Give Autonomy, Special Status to University of Mysore” in Star of Mysore dated Nov. 6 has cogently argued not to restrict the jurisdiction of University of Mysore (UoM) by limiting its control to the colleges of just Mysuru city and district. Instead, he has argued to make the…

Sir, With the normal flight schedules resumed at Mysore Airport, there is an increase in number of travellers opting for air travel. Before the Covid lockdown KSRTC was operating reasonably good number of services between Mysuru City and the Airport. It is high time for the KSRTC to resume their Airport services from Mysuru City….

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…