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Memorial for a Hindu Monk
Jesus Christ had said that ‘no prophet is honoured in his own country.’ I am reminded of this maxim as a journalist and a witness to the ongoing protests concerning handing over…
5 Jul 2021 · 6 min read
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy
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Half a Century of Non-Performing Governance of India ! –2
Changes in All India Civil Service selection and training imperative [Continued from yesterday] From Chapter-3 we read about the making of a Civil Servant (IAS) like the author N.K. Singh and others.…
30 Jun 2021 · 7 min read
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Half a Century of Non-Performing Governance of India ! –1
A couple of weeks back I was talking to R. Chandra Prakash, a former Professor in Manasagangothri and later the Registrar of Kuvempu University, Shivamogga, who was also the former President of…
29 Jun 2021 · 7 min read
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Life of a Doctor, his Death and a Book
When a friend, who has never sent me a book nor discussed books with me, sends a book, I am curious. I am curious also because I had already heard about this…
22 Jun 2021 · 6 min read
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Rohini Sindhuri’s Parting Shot: H.V. Rajeev opens a can of worms !
Food, clothing and shelter, in Hindi ‘Roti, kapda aur makan’ are the basic requirements of human beings. All other requirements are of secondary nature for human life. Pakistan’s former firebrand Prime Minister…
19 Jun 2021 · 5 min read
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Remembering Sholapurkar, The Builder of CAVA
About creative dancers it is said that during the performance the dancer disappears, only the dance remains. The same feeling could be expressed about Prof. V.M. Sholapurkar, the painter-artist who passed away…
10 Jun 2021 · 5 min read
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Names of the Women - 2
[Continued from yesterday] I don’t claim to have read in depth about world’s Prophets and religions. But of what I have read my favourite has always been Jesus. I have found that…
1 Jun 2021 · 4 min read
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Names of the Women - 1
In the month of April 2021, I was going through the weekly magazine ‘OPEN’ and the review of a book titled ‘Names of the Women’ by Jeet Thayil drew my attention. It…
31 May 2021 · 4 min read
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CDN: Saluting a teacher extraordinary
[Published in Star of Mysore dated Feb. 8, 2001] Last evening, I spent an hour and a half at the Dhvanyaloka auditorium listening to Prof. K.C. Belliappa of Manasagangothri English Department speak…
28 May 2021 · 5 min read
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Dream, Dream, Dream: Divinity and Destiny!
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride, is an old saying, as old as the hills. The closest synonym of the word ‘wishes’ could be ‘dreams’ and so let us discuss about…
15 Apr 2021 · 5 min read
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A Noble Man: Remembering Farrokh K. Irani again
Farrokh Khudamurad Irani, Farrokh K. Irani (or F.K. Irani) for we Mysureans, Founder of the famous Ideal Jawa Motorcycle Factory at Yadavagiri, Mysuru, was an iconic Mysurean of his days since 1960.…
2 Apr 2021 · 6 min read
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Believe It or Not!
Mohan Kumar was watching TV at 10 pm. His son Viraat said he was going to the club for a party. “Have you taken the key of the main door?” asked the…
22 Mar 2021 · 5 min read
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Adieu to a Sr. Journalist: N. Niranjan Nikam
I have heard death always comes stealthily. In the death of N. Niranjan Nikam, a familiar name among journalists in our city, who died last night, death came, without an iota of…
17 Feb 2021 · 4 min read
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L.K. Advani: Was he cheated by Destiny?
I had read the autobiography of L.K. Advani, the BJP’s top honcho “My Country My Life”, a tome running to nearly 1,000 pages in 2008, as soon as it was published. BJP…
16 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
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General’s Museum, Medical College, Heritage Centre
Last Sunday, 31st January 2021, I went to Madikeri on a bore-breaking trip with my wife and two friends. It was a two-and-a-half-hour journey by car via Kushalnagar. The road being good…
5 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
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Love in the time of COVID-19
The world, according to reports, learnt of Coronavirus disease rather late by few months when people began to die of the scourge not knowing how to treat such patients. China was considered…
24 Jan 2021 · 6 min read
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A Sunday escapade to Karighatta
Being cocooned for over eight months at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I felt like breaking out from the cocoon and walk around like a free man. Going to office is…
18 Jan 2021 · 3 min read
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Social media is important today
Media Houses suffer from deficiency of news service We all know that so and so actress is expecting a second child. We know that another Bollywood star is expecting her first child.…
1 Jan 2021 · 4 min read
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Reflecting on Hinduism as a Religion and a Way of Life !
Hinduism, like any religion, can produce fanatics, and the modern, essentially Secular State of India has to contend with them; but at their best the tradition of India, as reflected in her…
30 Dec 2020 · 7 min read
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Of Journalism and Journalists !
Is Indian media divided ideologically, like political parties? Newspapers, magazines, TV channels and social media have all come under the scrutiny not so much of the users of these news sources as…
24 Dec 2020 · 5 min read
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Rambling thoughts on Arnab Goswami’s arrest, release and our legal system
In my recent memory, no arrest of a journalist had roused as much disturbing feelings as when Arnab Goswami, the Chief of the Republic TV, was arrested on Nov. 4, 2020. For…
19 Nov 2020 · 5 min read
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Two tear drops for Arnab Goswami, wounded journalist
Two drops of tears rolled down my cheeks at 4.15 pm yesterday, Wednesday, 11th November, as I was watching the Republic TV. It was the moment the Supreme Court announced the grant…
12 Nov 2020 · 5 min read
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Bihar polls: This morning I met this special delegation !
This morning I had three surprise visitors in my Office. Surprisingly all quadrupeds and naturally the security guard stopped them at the main gate and took down the details for his entry-exit…
11 Nov 2020 · 3 min read
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Nostalgically Speaking — 13: A.K. Subbaiah: A maverick politician of Karnataka —2
[Continued from yesterday] During 1975 Emergency, A.K. Subbaiah was the first Karnataka politician to be imprisoned and spent a total of 18 months in various jails before being released from the Bangalore…
29 Oct 2020 · 4 min read