2024 Parliamentary Election: Whither Opposition and Congress? The Parliamentary election 2024 is only a couple of months away and the nation is experiencing a new kind of election fever which we have not seen except in 1977, the post-Emergency Parliamentary election. Then, as expected, the newly cobbled up Opposition parties, under the dynamic and well-accepted…
Viva Prime Minister Narendra Modi
February 16, 2024Defender of Faith and Renaissance Man of India The 2024 Parliamentary election is only a couple of months away. Looking back, in the last 10 years, it has been a golden decade for India. The credit should indeed go to BJP Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi. I am sure this kind of approbation of Modi’s…
Love & Loss in DIGITAL AGE
February 16, 2024Two days ago, on Valentine’s Day, I visited a cousin’s house. There, I met my niece who was visiting home. She’s typically effervescent and exuberant but on that day, she was veiled in an aura of melancholy. The cause? She had just broken up with her boyfriend of over a year. She said they had…
A Tale of Two Cities & Two Clocks !
February 16, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The first part of the title of this article, as is most certainly known to almost all my readers, is actually the title of a very famous historical novel penned by Charles Dickens, published in the year 1859, set in London and Paris, before and during the French Revolution which came to…
Falling branches & More Shaktimans
February 10, 2024On Tuesday, a man died when a tree branch fell on his head. Even his helmet couldn’t save him. But what could have saved him was probably the timely pruning of the tree. Every year, people die in our city as tree branches fall due to lack of timely pruning. Yet citizens are confused about…
Legalising a legacy from long ago!
February 4, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent proclamation of the State Government that the possession of all kinds of wildlife artifacts by citizens would be dealt with by taking very stern legal action, under the Wildlife Act, has become the cause for much concern among people who have been having wildlife artifacts, both small…
Humped & Barricaded: Time to wake up !
February 3, 2024Six days ago, within 12 hours, between 9 pm and 9 am, 20 people met with accidents. Three young men lost their lives. Two young women become widows. Three children became fatherless. Three families lost their primary breadwinner and three families were destroyed…all because of two unscientific road humps. Shockingly, not a single MLA has…
River Seine flows quietly in Mysuru
February 1, 2024Saluting Dr. Filliozat, Padma Shri awardee When a French Sanskrit Scholar Dr. Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, a resident of Mysuru, was awarded the prestigious national civil honour Padma Shri, I was not surprised. Star of Mysore had the honour of introducing him to its readers many years ago as a Sanskrit scholar, who had done research on…
Musings on Ayodhya Ram Temple and my tete-a-tete with Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa
January 16, 2024From today it is only seven days for the consecration of Ram Lalla’s (baby Rama) idol at a ceremony in Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir. Monday, 22nd January, 2024, will be a red letter day for all the Hindus all over the world because that will be the day when the Hindus of the world will be…
A Temple Tour, in Watercolour !
January 14, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A little more than a week ago, I read in very small print, an announcement in Star of Mysore that said an exhibition of watercolour paintings was being held at Coffee City, the relatively new gallery café in the Hebbal suburb of our city. Being a fledgling or more…
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