Sir, Citizens seem to have completely lost their mind while parking their vehicles in the middle of the road blocking all road-users. The above photo of traffic violations was taken in front of the Saibaba temple in Ramakrishnanagar. Three bikers have parked their vehicles on the road and one car on the opposite side of…

Sir, Bengaluru is in the news for the city is drowning due to unprecedented rains. As per India Meteorological Department (IMD), the city saw third heaviest rainfall in 75 years at 13.16 cm in 12 hours. This is not the first time such heavy rains have happened for IMD record shows earlier it happened in…

Sir, This is with reference to the news item titled “MUDA reclaims four unauthorised layouts”  (Star of Mysore dated Aug. 28) which mentions that there are more than 40 such layouts in the jurisdiction of  the Authority. If such being the case, why don’t the officials concerned release a list of such layouts to warn…

Sir, The Abracadabra titled “Welcome to Grand Dasara” by K.B. Ganapathy in Star of Mysore dated Aug.28 took me on a nostalgic trip down the memory lane. I too, in my teens, regularly used to see the Dasara procession,  when the last Maharaja, Jayachamaraja Wadiyar along with the Prince, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, used to sit…

Sir, I am writing this to highlight the apathy of officials and people’s representatives towards the infrastructure in Mysuru, especially in T.K. Layout’s Paduvana Main Road.  Former CM Siddharamaiah resides in this locality. Paduvana Main Road in T.K. Layout is in a pathetic state and has not been repaired in the past 5 years. Potholes…

Sir, The death of my dear friend Prof. B. Sheik Ali on Sept. 1 came as a shock to me. By any standard he was a remarkable person and lived an active life till the end except for a few days of sudden complications in his health  when he died at the age of 98. …

Sir, In Gokulam 3rd Stage between 10th and 11th Cross, there is a huge vacant Civic Amenities (CA) site. It is said, it is allotted to one institution some 30 years back by MUDA. They have not constructed nor maintaining it. Earlier, the City Corporation workers used to cut plants and trees grown in that…

Sir, This refers to the recent letter titled “Provide city bus facilities around Ring Road” in Star of Mysore.  I also strongly second the correspondent’s thoughts and urge the Mysuru city KSRTC authorities to consider this request and implement the service around Ring Road at the earliest.  I stay in Hebbal and if I need…

Sir, This is regarding KBG’s Abracadabra titled “Welcome to Grand Dasara” in SOM dated Aug. 28. I have been in Mysuru for the last 25 years of my life, and I have come to love the beautiful city that it is. Mysuru, today, for me, is an emotion in more ways than one and the…

Sir, A couple of articles that appeared in Star of Mysore a few days apart vividly describe what is happening in Namma Mysuru these days. On Friday, Aug. 19, the headline was ‘110-km of visual treat’, and the article talked about the grand illumination for the occasion of Dasara celebrations this year. However, an article…