Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy
Prose gone by…
This is the first Anniversary Edition of Star of Mysore since the passing of its Founding Editor, K.B. Ganapathy (KBG), on July 13, 2025. As we step into the New Year (2026),…
16 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy
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Pondering over wars and warmongers of the world !
War begins in the minds of men.— Atharvaveda War is to man, what maternity is to woman.— Benito Mussolini Has Operation Sindoor accomplished its mission? Yes or No? The answer is both…
19 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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Reflecting on the way Jewish people earn and spend
I strongly feel that Google and the miracle of digital technology, WhatsApp, are greatly contributing to educate people and widen their knowledge on every subject under the sun. Talk of self-education? These…
10 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP, crosses the Rubicon!
Despite reluctance and reservation on the part of the Congress party, Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MP, agreed to lead one of the seven delegations sent by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP-led NDA…
30 May 2025 · 3 min read
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Booker Tiara for Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi
“At this time of ‘Operation Sindoor’ of conflict, we also have ‘Operation Saree’ of bonding...” This 2025 year of our Lord, a Kannadiga writer Banu Mushtaq of Hassan, Karnataka, has won the…
25 May 2025 · 2 min read
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Kashmiri Lady IAS Officer remembers her home in PoK
Last Tuesday I went to see a friend after a month’s disconnect. Sipping into the spirit of my friend’s hospitality, our conversation narrowed down from family and friends to the current burning…
22 May 2025 · 4 min read
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In war truth is casualty
Adversarial media working on hidden agenda ? Operation Sindoor “Because of an abrupt ceasefire, Operation Sindoor has completed its mission only partially. But cinders remain. Who knows, it might be ignited if…
19 May 2025 · 4 min read
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Musings on mystery of Pahalgam
Did Jesus live in this village of the shepherds? Pahalgam in Kashmir, where the dastardly terrorist attack, targeting male Hindus, took place on 22nd April 2025, according to apocryphal history, is a…
17 May 2025 · 3 min read
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Blitzkrieg: Now annex PoK as assured in the Preamble of our Constitution
Last night at eight when our Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Nation, our countrymen and women heard him with pride. Earlier, he had told the country and the world that he…
13 May 2025 · 4 min read
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Author who saw Pakistan's inexorable descent into fear and nihilism!
Shakespeare may say audaciously, ‘What is there in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ But you try calling marigold as rose and see if you get…
3 May 2025 · 7 min read
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Final solution to the evils of Pakistani Terrorism
American President John F. Kennedy in 1963, when granting Winston Churchill US Citizenship said, “He mobilised the English language and sent it to battle.” Today, following Pakistani terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir,…
29 Apr 2025 · 5 min read
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“Go tell Modi” says terrorist to Pallavi. What will Modi do?
Yesterday, April 22, 2025, at 2.30 pm the Pahalgam in Kashmir Valley reverberated with the sounds of terrorist gunshots killing 28 tourists — two of them foreigners and the rest Hindus. One…
23 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
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Reflecting on 2008 Terror Mastermind Rana
India seems to be celebrating the extradition of Tahawwur Hussain Rana from America, the key accused in the Mumbai serial terror strike that shook India in 2008. But for Prime Minister Narendra…
12 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
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Remembering K. Srikantiah: A Great Patron of Music
As announced yesterday in this column, I am reproducing what I wrote about K. Srikantiah in Star of Mysore in 1990. Hey Ram! Hello Ram! We may be rid of the Ramayana…
11 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
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Recalling America I knew in 1992 and imagining America under Donald Trump in 2025
“Now, in 2025 we find a new America under Donald Trump solving the problem of Immigration and Birthright Citizenship. I had found a need for this Trump approach to these two issues…
2 Apr 2025 · 8 min read
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Indian Judiciary at the crossroads
Janata Janardan is watching As a common man, I was intrigued to read about the case of the authorities finding burnt stacks of cash in the outhouse of Justice Yashwant Varma of…
31 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
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Kodava Heritage Centre, Madikeri: No accountability
It is beyond one’s understanding why no Kodava Samaja, Akhila Kodava Samaja or Federation of Kodava Samajas evinced interest in a project that would be their pride as inheritors of their sacred…
17 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
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Need to make our legal language simple and exact
Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (Vidhi) is a distinguished think tank dedicated to driving impactful legal reforms, ensuring transparency and fostering societal progress, according to my Google Guru. It is an independent…
11 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
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Let not a language tear asunder a united Bharat
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom, say the wise. It is also a doorway to job opportunities in the changed world where job-seekers go places all over the world. However,…
4 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
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New Avatar of an American Newspaper
Newspapers are held in high esteem as one of the four pillars that support Democracy. Therefore, it is natural for people in democratic countries to worry when this pillar is attacked and…
28 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
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‘Chhaava’ film review — a recall of my book ‘Sword of Shivaji’
DRC Cinemas has been my only film destination in city ever since it opened its door in the year 2011. Two reasons: Owners are friendly, one phone call seats are reserved (!)…
25 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
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New light on world order
India will be confident and comfortable with America under Trump With Donald Trump as President of America, it is important to understand the emerging new geopolitical order of the world. New ideas…
21 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
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Let us live and die with dignity
Life is full of questions and the curious one will want answers. But, there are questions that can’t be answered. Like, why we die? When will we die? And, How will we…
16 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
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Modi in Trumpland
Indian Tiger meets American Elephant! Narendra Modi, our Prime Minister, was in America making waves, swimming with the American sharks. This is the second term in office for Donald Trump as President…
15 Feb 2025 · 6 min read