Comments on: Has Mysuru gone Bengaluru way?—5: Mysuru, a name that resonates https://starofmysore.com/has-mysuru-gone-bengaluru-way-5-mysuru-a-name-that-resonates/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3 By: Captain Jack Sparrow https://starofmysore.com/has-mysuru-gone-bengaluru-way-5-mysuru-a-name-that-resonates/#comment-19146 Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:02:44 +0000 https://starofmysore.com/?p=302755#comment-19146 5-parts poor quality Articles. What better, you would expect from a member of this notorious ‘Grahachara’ crowd!
About this city and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy. He did nothing to this city, except destroying acres of fertile land to establish an cheap IT techies training centre which sucked in more non-Kannadigas.
This Murthy is supporting a new Private university near Chennai, called Sai University, which has drawn the best of Indian expatriates who worked in the USA in its academic and administrative positions, creating a new university approach to attract the next generation -the students with talents. Mysuru was an appropriate place for this, but yet Murthy supported the Chennai site.
So much about the boast, why Mysuru has been a glittering jewel in education.
Mysuru, as one poster said will suck in more kingpins of gold smuggling from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, when better rail and road links to Kerala as planned become a reality in the near future.. Then , you will see a flood of criminal gangs who specialise in smuggling from the Gulf States take up residence in the city and nearby towns.

]]> By: Lingesh. https://starofmysore.com/has-mysuru-gone-bengaluru-way-5-mysuru-a-name-that-resonates/#comment-19115 Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:54:51 +0000 https://starofmysore.com/?p=302755#comment-19115 The gist of the headline has been left out of the article. It would have opened a new perception for readers, if the article was concentrated more on the topic.

]]> By: Lingesh https://starofmysore.com/has-mysuru-gone-bengaluru-way-5-mysuru-a-name-that-resonates/#comment-19114 Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:54:11 +0000 https://starofmysore.com/?p=302755#comment-19114 The gist of the headline has been left out of the article. It would have opened a new perception for readers, if the article was concentrated more on the topic.

]]> By: Jalandhara https://starofmysore.com/has-mysuru-gone-bengaluru-way-5-mysuru-a-name-that-resonates/#comment-19104 Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:45:00 +0000 https://starofmysore.com/?p=302755#comment-19104 I read this series of articles.
I am puzzled about the lack of full picture that one gleans from them. This article sums it
up well. I was born, brought up and worked in Mysuru for a decade, when the city was liveable.
was until 1970s. Thereafter, the city expanded in away similar to Bengaluru, and lost its charm
as a serene city, when masses of people moved into the city, after retirement, working elsewhwere
in their earlier years. The members of the MGP of which the author is one, are an example of these
new comers, who triggered the destruction of the city .

Mysuru was a ‘kind of Royal City’, because of the Palace, until 1950s and early 1960s, where the Wadiyars resided part of the year in the Palace, but increasingly spent most of the time in a year in Bengaluru. Their Dewans set up permanent residence in Bengaluru. One would say, it was indeed planned as the real Royal City..

Mysuru sitting at the end of the metre gauge train link from Bengaluru was both good and bad. Good because for decades , it acted as a buffer for fast movement of people from other states. Bad, because it provided no opportunities for postgraduate education in sciences and engineering for decades. I have detailed this in my reply to the article:” A visionary Educationist of Mysore. .part3” . It was Kuvempu as the VC of UOM, remedied the situation in sciences, by establishing Manasa Gangothri, thus ensured that Mysoreans do not suffer from this disadvantage. Educated young Mysoreans had to move out of the City to Bengaluru to begin careers. Thy never returned to the city of their birth. Though there was a medical college and a teaching hospital, Mysuru lacked many specialist treatment until l1990s.
About the Palace. Although the Dasara attracted people from other states, very few overseas visitors were found it attractive without good hotels and amenities. Where the Buckingham Palace scores high is in its daily activity of changing the guards,a scenario that attract thousands of visitors from the rest of the world. The pandemic has put a temporary brake to this. The vista leading to this Palace is something that Mysuru Palace does not have. Adding to this, atre the excellent museums and galleries that outshine the Jaganmohan Palace.

About the literary figures: Ana kru was a Bengalorean through and through. Ta ra su living for decades in Vidayranyap[uram, moved out, as did Narayana Murthy, a fellow resident in that extension, after his engineering education in Mysuru, and does not own a residence in this City.
Where Mysuru scored high-its natural richness and serenity, , it lost them by 1990s, when residential areas mushroomed at the base of the Chamundi Hill and elsewhere, extending the city limits massively.

Within a decade, after the new rail and road links to Kerala and Tamil Nadu get going, Mysuru will see massiveinflux of people from these 2 states. Already, Keralites with their so called business lin ks to Gulf States- simply put it, gold smuggling and fake designer goods dealings, are eyeing Mysru and the nearby towns and villages for their settlements and activities. One could see the Mandakalli airport expanded to receive jet liners from the Gulf States.
Whither Mysuru then?

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