Mysuru: A programme has been organised at Maneyangala in Kalamandira premises in city tomorrow (May 28) at 5.30 pm to release the book ‘…Those little dew-lit moments,’ a collection of english poems by budding poet Samhita Dinesh (in pic.), grand-daughter of city’s poetess Dr. Latha Rajashekar. Littérateur Dr. C.P. Krishnakumar will inaugurate the programme. Star…
Parking woes of our city
May 26, 2017Animal world outside Zoo According to Political Science, good governance means the greatest good of the greatest number. Not the good of a community or a vested interest. Last Wednesday around 5 pm I was passing in front of the main gate of Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens (Mysore Zoo) in my car. The road was…
Phalke awardee K. Vishwanath, nine others conferred Datta Peetha Title
May 24, 2017Vajrotsava Day – 4: Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji is seen conferring ‘Datta Peetha Bandhu’ title on K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief, Star of Mysore and Mysooru Mithra, at Nada Mantapa in Ganapathy Ashrama premises on Ooty Road in Dattanagar this morning, as part of the Diamond Jubilee and 75th birthday celebrations of Sri Ganapathy Swamiji and 19th…
POINT BLANK: Indian origin politician in England holds brief for Pakistan
May 23, 2017By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief In UK, at present general election campaign is hotting up. There were Hindus, Muslims and Christians among others who have entered the election arena hoping to make it to British Parliament-Westminster. There were Pakistan origin Muslims and Indian Hindus. I do not know if Indian Muslims too are there and Sikhs,…
Rise and Fall of a Royal Property: Rajendra Vilas Palace
May 17, 2017The Omen: Wadiyar’s Rajendra Vilas Palace Mystery of a temple tower and palace-dome! I may mention here that I had written an Abracadabra column under the title mentioned above on11th February 2016. I will just mention the relevant point. The dome of the Palace was built taller than the Vimana Gopura atop the tower of…
Some parallel to Trump’s America and Modi’s India
May 14, 2017I was watching live US President Donald Trump’s Commencement Speech at Liberty University yesterday (Saturday). Like in our Universities, specially in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, there was a division among students on the question of inviting Trump. After all Trump had been the convocation speaker at the Christian University in 2012 and again before…
POINT BLANK: BJP Conclave a Charade ?
May 7, 2017By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief The first day of the two-day State BJP Executive meet in city yesterday did not seem to go well and if the trend continues today also, the concluding day, the future 2018 does not seem to augur well for BJP. This prognosis is in contrast to BJPs rival No. 1 in the…
POINT BLANK: Wages of Rape is Death
May 6, 2017By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief The day of new dawn in India’s judiciary and the legal system was 5.5.2017. The Supreme Court confirmed death sentence for four rapists in 2012 Delhi rape case. There were actually six rapists but one of the convicts, Ram Singh committed suicide in Tihar Jail while the other was a minor….
POINT BLANK: BJP at large!
May 2, 2017New face for city’s K.R. seat? By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief In William Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet,’ Polonius says at one point “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” This precisely seems to be the state of Karnataka BJP which will go to the Assembly polls next year, 2018 to challenge the incumbent Congress…
POINT BLANK: Is the State BJP falling apart?
April 30, 2017By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief W.B. Yeats in his poem The Second Coming has said the universal truth when he wrote: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,…… The ugly spectacle of violent dissent that was seen in Bengaluru on April 27 at the Palace Grounds where K.S. Eswarappa,…
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