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Memorable days of working with Yashodhara Dasappa

February 16, 2021

By K. Vijaya Kumar, Former Jt. Director of Information & Publicity The firebrand Gandhian who brought women into Satyagraha Movement The recently held function on Yashodharamma Dasappa — Ondu Nenapu took my memory back over 60 years to remember this Gandhian and social reformer which Mysore cannot forget. It was in 1968-69 when I was…

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BRAHMA KUMARIS: 80th anniversary at Mount Abu

February 26, 2017

By K. Vijaya Kumar, Former Jt. Director of Information & Publicity. The 15-Day Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Brahma Kumaris Organisation of Mysore Sub Zone, organised at Maharaja College Grounds in city, which will conclude this evening, took my memory back to 50 years when Mysore Centre was started in 1966 by a young Brahma Kumari…

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Late V. Siddharthacharry Uniqueness of Mysuru’s Diplomat Family

February 16, 2017

By K. Vijaya Kumar, Former Jt. Director of Information & Publicity The very first day of this new year 2017, Mysuru lost a distinguished personality Siddharthacharry (98). The city has become poorer in the death of this eminent scholar, educationist, an able diplomat of Nehru Era and a humanist. Besides himself being a successful Ambassador serving…

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