Oldest book in President’s house is on Tipu Sultan
With Pranab Mukherjee, an acknowledged man of letters, moving into the Rashtrapati Bhavan as President, the library is being dusted and brought back into shape. And the oldest book …
With Pranab Mukherjee, an acknowledged man of letters, moving into the Rashtrapati Bhavan as President, the library is being dusted and brought back into shape. And the oldest book …
Is it a bus? Is it a train? Or is it a bus masquerading as a train? And does it run? Whatever. Gautamaditya Sridhara forwards a picture of an abandoned …
The former governor of West Bengal, Gopalakrishna Gandhi, at a lecture on governance in India, quoted in The Telegraph: Touring the Kannada countryside in 1927, Mahatma Gandhi asked a poor …
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 …
Respected Madam, This is with regard to the forthcoming Dasara celebrations in Mysore. It is heartening to note that, as the district in-charge minister, you have made a deliberate bid …
BHAMY V. SHENOY writes: During the last 19 years, I must have helped several hundreds of consumers with their water problems as a convener of the Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP). …
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 …
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 …
YASHICA SITARAM writes: Having spent the better part of our growing-up years here, we had always wanted to make Mysore our home and when the opportunity presented itself early last …
P.M. VIJENDRA RAO writes: Well, the reason politicians are there is to divide people. And, the reason the people are there is to get divided and throw their lot behind …
GOVINDA K. writes: The deputy commissioner of Mysore, N.S. Channappa Gowda, has announced that the voters’ list of Mysore district has been computerised and is available on the web for …
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: Reading as I do Star of Mysore on the web every evening over kodu bale and filter coffee, I came across the following news item …
The Economist has a story this week on India’s “misnomer” of an industry— information technology—with Mysore figuring in the very sentence. With revenues topping $50 billion, with annual growth rates …
GOVINDA K. writes: It is blithely said that the people deserve the kind of leaders they get. But two recent incidents of the misbehavior of newly elected elected corporators in …
Union health minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss last week made the astounding claim that four chief ministers and 150 Members of Parliament were among those lobbying against making the display of …
ASHWINI A. writes from Bangalore: Development is fast becoming a strange dichotomous disease in India. The three most reform-minded States in the country—Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka—also top the list of …
On D. Devaraj Urs Road in Mysore, on a leisurely Sunday, a feathered one clambers up a scooter and ponders all those lines under her his eyes. Photograph: Karnataka Photo …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: We live in an age in which we can barely think or act about anything that doesn’t concern us or our own. And we …
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 …
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”.