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Why our Nagarahole scores over Ranthambore
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: A regal looking crested serpent eagle with its beautiful yellow ringed eyes flies silently, almost in stealth, and perches itself on an overhanging branch of a mathi …
Rama, Rama Rajya & Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
He was 11 years old when he ascended the throne. Mahatma Gandhi called him a “Raja Rishi” (saintly king). Historians have compared him to emperor Ashoka. He is seen to …
What if T.N. Seetharam did sound ‘n’ light show?
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Sound and Light project at the Mysore Palace is in a work-in-no-progress mode with new problems cropping up even as solutions are discovered for the previous …
Only a third generation can double this rail line
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Praveen Kumar III of South Western Railway was gazing at the track between Srirangapatna and Naguvanahalli. As he was staring at the track, his mind went back …
With so many legs, who on earth needs a tripod?
On World Photography Day on Tuesday, Karnataka Photo News editor Saggere Ramaswamy captures the great orb preparing to take a dip below the now out-of-use Wellesley Bridge at the island-town …
Welcome to Deve Gowda International Airport?
The Manmohan Singh government has reportedly decided to name Lucknow’s airport after former prime minister Chaudhury Charan Singh (in return for his son Ajit Singh‘s Rashtriya Lok Dal’s support during …
After all, an airport doesn’t open/close every day
Change is the only constant in life. And, last night, as the first Air India flight landed at the gleaming new Bangalore International Airport at Devanahalli, beaming passengers were welcomed …
Why the Queen sold her diamonds and jewels
The Wodeyars of Mysore are at once mighty and mysterious. Mighty, because they ruled for close to 550 years from AD 1399. Mysterious, because despite their long reign and the …
VIKRAM SAMPATH
The Wodeyars of Mysore are at once mighty and mysterious. Mighty, because they ruled for close to 550 years from AD 1399. Mysterious, because despite their long reign and the …
Five (real) lessons for Chamalapura from Dahanu
The decision of the Karnataka government to pick out Chamalapura in H.D. Kote taluk off the map of Mysore for a 1,000 MW coal power plant of the National Thermal …
An ungrateful ant wails before a mountain of aces
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: On 20 January 1961, in his inaugural address after taking over as the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy said: “Ask not what your country …
S.L. Bhyrappa versus U.R. Anantha Murthy
S.L. Bhyrappa‘s latest novel Aavarana has thrown a sharp barb into the incestuous cesspool that is Kannada literature. In one corner is U.R. Anantha Murthy, the Jnanpith Award-winning former chairman …
Did the Tiger of Mysore really tame a tiger?
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu aka Tipu Sultan, ‘Tiger’ of Mysore, scourge of the British and army strategist extraordinaire, who was finally defeated in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War …
‘BENKI’ NAWAB: One man’s hero is another’s zero
GOURI SATYA writes: I have read with interest the responses to my article ‘Once upon a time, in the agraharas and mohallas‘. I thank Jeevarathna, in particular, for the additional …
Is there an India beyond South Delhi for TV?
There are dozens of irritating things on the 24-hour news channels, but does anything come close to the slick, air-conditioned, accented tears that are shed for the victims of the …
Once upon a time, in the agraharas and mohallas
GOURI SATYA writes: In about circa 1800, Mysore was a small place located within the fort walls of the Palace surrounded by one or two Mohallas or extensions. Most of …
Who was the woman who cursed the Wodeyars?
GOURI SATYA writes: Churumuri’s publication of T.G. Lakshmana Rao‘s ‘Handbook of the City of Mysore’ makes interesting reading, although most of the details are available in a number of books …
Where on earth is ‘Bangara Doddi Naale’?
Medha Patkar’s fast-unto-death to stop the raising of the height of the Narmada Dam that will displace even more people on the banks of the river, brings to mind a …
‘If Rama devotees get their hands on these [AK-47s], they will be even more fearsome than the Taliban’
Who killed Gauri Lankesh? Despite a concerted campaign to deflect attention in the initial days, it is becoming increasingly clear that radical Hindu right-wing outfits—Sanatan Sanstha, Hindu Yuva Sena, Hindu …
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