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…
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…
Last salute to Maj. Gen. C.K. Karumbaya
January 4, 2024Whenever a soldier of my country died in war or peace, I always felt a tad diminished as a citizen of this country. That was how I felt this morning on hearing the news of passing away of Maj. Gen. C.K. Karumbaya SM, (retd.) in city. He belonged to Kodava community of Codanda family and…
Musings on statues in our city
December 29, 2023How about one for Farrokh K. Irani? In the early days of this month December 2023 there was an important news break concerning installation of a statue in our City of Palaces, Heritage Buildings, Parks, Temples, and, of course, of Statues which is a recent phenomenon. As I remember, before 1970s there were only two…
Time for young and old to contemplate on death
December 26, 2023Newspaper reading has been my second nature of being alive, after breathing. During this month of December 2023, I have been reading in newspapers about the death of people who were young, too young to die. School-going children, college-going boys, young adults pursuing a profession. I am not thinking of those who died in accidents…
Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai – 2
December 24, 2023Alter ego of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba? [Continued from yesterday] K.B. Ganapathy (KBG): How did you become his successor? Sathya Sai Baba died in the year 2011. Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai was in Bengaluru. He had a prayer room attached to his living room. One day while he was sitting and praying, the apparition…
Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai – 1
December 23, 2023Alter ego of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba? This eternal land Bharat is unlike any other land on this planet earth inhabited by human beings. It is the only country in the world that has a religion not founded by one prophet and guided by one holy book. Its religion though identified by the name…
Remembering T.S. Satyan on his birth centenary
December 18, 2023The first thought that comes to my mind whenever I look at good photographs either in a newspaper, magazine or a gallery has always been that of T.S. Satyan. A photographer par-excellence, a photo-journalist of national eminence who was recognised by the Government of India with the national civil honour of Padma Shri in 1979….
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