E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: How did our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers keep themselves fit and in shape back in the good old days? Did they have enough exercise as per modern …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Our grandparents mostly used neem twigs to give a brisk rub-in to their teeth first thing in the morning. This simple device was good enough to keep …
Prof A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former head of the department of ancient history of the University of Mysore, and chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mysore, in Star of Mysore: “The year 1940, …
D.P. SATISH writes from New Delhi: The travel writer Paul Theroux first came to Bangalore 35 years ago when he was working on his iconic 1975 travelogue, The Great Railway …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Bangalore in the 1950s and ’60s was still a Pensioners’ Paradise and very much a sleepy town. It was mostly divided into “City” and “Cantonment” with Basavanagudi …
U.B. VASUDEV writes from Tampa, Flordia: Down memory lane, while growing up in Mysore, we looked forward to the Dasara or the Navarathri holidays. Those ten days, which signified goddess …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: I may not be wrong if I say that without any exceptions whatsoever, a motorcycle is every boy’s favourite fascination and heart-throb. It still remains mine …
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, who died earlier this week, was a rare combination of violin maestro and clown. One evening, as we sat listening to him at …
Generally speaking, public service initiatives are grim, boring affairs. But the “Teach India” campaign launched by The Times of India in collaboration with United Nations Volunteers—and modelled along the lines of the Teach …
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: A recent discussion between commentators during a Test match on whether substitutes should be permitted to wear the “official” cap of the country woke up …
SAVITHA G.R. writes from Bangalore: Growing up in the Eighties. Studying in an ‘English-medium’ school in Bangalore’s Vijayanagar. Walking to school all the way from Saraswathi Nagar. Collecting gasgase hannu …
RANJANA RAO writes from New York City: I am Gulmohar—that’s my pen-name. Does it make you wonder what sort of a person I am? Female or male? Does it denote …
RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: While the boys of churumuri let their tongues flap around for kodu bale and Kingfisher, may I, on behalf of the party of the other …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I was once treated by a doctor who was a ‘Gold Medalist’, a fact which was emblazoned after her name on the signboard outside her door. She …
MADHU GOPINATH RAO writes from New York City: With an undeniable laidback charm, not so long ago, Bangalore was your quaint old south Indian city—a pensioner’s paradise and a garden …
M.S. Prabhakara recounts his days in Bangalore in his farewell column in The Hindu today. Areas like Chikkapete, Balepete and Mamulpete, Banaswadi, Kadugodi and Adugodi, which were linked to this …
As the Indian stock markets defy all known laws of physics and psychology, KAMLESH MODHA forwards a parable that has a familiar ring. *** “Once upon a time in a …
BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: In hindsight, it might seem arrogant. But when I wrote about my father some months ago upon his turning 105 years of age—‘Real (and proven) secrets …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: Although I know that Mysore does have its own charm, I have still often wondered why people compliment us so much over our luck in being …
Peter Muir and Frances Muir in the National Geographic, April 1946: “Renunciation is the magic word in India. Gandhi realises this, and it is one of the reasons behind his …
BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: Born on 17 March 1903 in Kikkeri in Mandya taluk, my father H. Bapu Ramanna is now in his 105th year, bridging two centuries. Though his memory …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: A leading Kannada newspaper recently in its weekly supplement on Mysore carried a brief article about ‘Newspaper House’, an all too well-known landmark of our City …
BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: In an environment populated by pretenders of shallow learning who garner awards by the power of lobbying; by men who flaunt their learning by their power to …
A car stood on the tarred road, parched land spreading endlessly away around. In it were three men, two of whom were asleep. The car had engine trouble, and the …
Mysore-born film maker M V KRISHNASWAMY assisted Roberto Rossellini on the sets of Viaggio in Italia starring Ingrid Bergman; acted with Padmini; convinced Sir M Vishvesvaraya that there was documentary …
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