Helicopter rides have been introduced in Mysore in the run-up to Dasara festivities this year, and newspaper photographers are having a ball capturing the city from up above.
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: Parochial thoughts. Narrow-minded pettiness. Divisive ideas that spell acrimonious discord. Ttaking cheap potshots at men and twisting core issues out of proportion. Displaying a reckless and irresponsible …
At the Dasara half-marathon, the minister in charge of Mysore district, Shobha Karandlaje, shows her youthful best as her cabinet colleague Gulihatti Shekhar and others try to keep pace, in …
It’s one thing for travel writers dipping into their thesauruses to blindly term Mysore “a sleepy town” or “a pensioner’s paradise”. But what when the government officially believes that all …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The crowd around was laughing and jeering at her. Her saree was torn and hair disheveled and she was not even conscious of that. She was alternately …
The scion of the erstwhile royal family of Mysore, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, loses balance while climbing the “Belli Pallakki” during the Banni Pooja at the main Amba Vilas palace in …
DEEPAK THIMAYA writes from Bangalore: Ministers and bureaucrats, correspondents and reporters, tourist operators and hotel owners… nobody, it seems, can utter the words “Mysore Dasara” without happily slapping the label …
Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, scion of the erstwhile royal family of Mysore, in conversation with Shyam Sundar Vattam of Deccan Herald: “You cannot compare today’s Dasara with the one that was …
The real beauty of our cities—and the ethereal beauty of their brains—is to be seen from above, and at night. In cities like New York, the view can be had …
On the first day of the Dasara festivities in Mysore, the scion of the erstwhile royal family, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, ascends the throne at the khas durbar in the main …
Children of mahouts ferrying elephants for the Dasara festivities in Mysore, and a couple of large gatecrashers, sit down for special classes conducted by department of public instruction at the …
With Durga pooja round the corner, an artist gives the finishing touches to idols at the Bengali Association in Bangalore on Thursday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
With Dasara just a few days away, the traditional pethas to be worn by the scion of the erstwhile royal family, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, during the ten-day festival are readied …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: There is a mad rush among politicians in Mysore to some how or the other make it to one of the myriad and “prestigious” Dasara committees. Since …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: A little more than a couple of months ago, on 18th of May, to be precise, I attended a fairly well-attended story-telling session by Sudha Murthy, …
The elephants for the Mysore Dasara arrive at the main Amba Vilas palace on Thursday. After symbolically walking a few metres at the commencement of the gajapayana from the Nagarahole …
Balarama, Vijaya, Arjuna, Gajendra, Sarala and Abhimanyu arrive at Veeranahosahalli near Hunsur on Monday, as they begin their long trudge by foot (and on wheels) to take part in the …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The official spokesman was holding forth on the plans of the State Government to celebrate Dasara as never before. “You might have all seen the photographs of CM …
Sudheendra Kulkarni in The Indian Express: “One way of understanding India is to understand our festivals. They tell us about India’s civilisational continuity… Each of our festivals represent mythology’s leap …
The festival season has begun, and it is a time to give, to all those whom we love—and even to those we don’t. E.R. RAMACHANDRAN has chosen to send out …
Is there anything big about this year’s Dasara without Kumaranna, Revanna and Gowdru? There is. The horticultural department next to the main palace has made the biggest Basavanna of all—in …
The kusti at the Dasara in Mysore never fails to draw the best out of lensmen, young and old. In the top frame, Narayan Yadav of Karnataka Photo News captures …
RAGHU APARA captures the second-most famous landmark in Mysore, as the English newspapers always put it, “in all their resplendent glory”.