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Waiting for Donald Trump -1
It was a great escape, a providential escape from sure death for Donald Trump. An assassin’s bullet just grazed his right ear. There was blood. There was evil. It is believed Democracy…
19 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy
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Time to remember prophetic words of former Mysuru DC
Among animals man is considered a sapient animal with five sensory organs and also a sixth sense. One may call it by multiple names — gut feeling, omen, intuition or power of…
15 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
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Modi the PM who walks on the razor’s edge -2
A book on Modi as a Leader tells it all [Continued from yesterday] The author of the book, Dr. Balasubramaniam (he is a Medical Doctor) aptly describes Modi as a visionary leader…
10 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
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Modi the PM who walks on the razor’s edge -1
A book on Modi as a Leader tells it all A leader must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it.…
9 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
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Musings on writers of Indian History
Right-wing historians have arrived! I have noticed an increase in the number of writers of History of India — Social history, economic history, religious history and political history — after 2014 when…
5 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
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First Avatar of Rahul as LoP
As Rahul takes up his first Constitutional post, I am sure that he will be feeling the weight of the realisation that he will be judged no more for whose son he…
2 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
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A medical doctor remembers his life’s journey
Mysore Literary Association (MLA) invited Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, city’s medical practitioner and also a regular columnist of Star of Mysore, to deliver a talk on ‘Beginning my life in a White…
30 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
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Game of Throne in Karnataka
I came and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift; nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men…
28 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
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Ritz Ponnu’s Last Supper
On Friday around 11 am I got a call. The message was disturbing, unpleasant, “Ponnu uncle passed away.” It was about the death of Ponnu Muthanna, known simply as Ponnu to his…
23 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
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A crisis of voter’s conscience or of India’s Constitution?
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways... — Lord Tennyson Lest one good Constitution should corrupt India! — With apologies to Lord Tennyson There…
16 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
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Third Avatar of Modi
A Prime Minister who made a weak India strong and a humbled India proud after 76 years of Independence Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great…
13 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
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Yes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi The game is over. BJP won the game but…
Bharat Mata Ki Jai. We the people of India, that is Bharat, have spoken. No single political party has got 272 seats, that magical number, out of 543 seats when the result…
5 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
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Modi Mantrava Japiso Manuja! | Exit Poll-2024: Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and the Astrologer
This is my take on the Parliamentary Election 2024 exit poll survey now being beamed in all TV channels. This has made the Opposition sulk. Personally speaking, my faith in this exit…
3 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
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How to reverse ageing and prolong life? - 2
[Continued from yesterday] Old age is no doubt boring as much as tiring. If left to be alone with children separated and health not good it is worse. Ask any old man.…
2 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
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How to reverse ageing and prolong life? -1
Formula: Diet-exercise-fasting Man has always been worried and concerned about ageing and death. His longing to be immortal is as old as the time of Adam and Manu. Normally ageing precedes death,…
1 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
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Curse of landfill haunts our city
PM Modi wants to help but... Wealth we produce goes to our Bank. Where does the waste we produce go? It goes to the landfill in different parts of our city. The…
30 May 2024 · 3 min read
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Personally impersonal about a 50 years of wedded bliss
I am at a loss to begin the narration about a 50th marriage anniversary celebration of a couple, I know for years, that I attended yesterday at a local hotel. Indeed, it…
27 May 2024 · 4 min read
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Book Talk: A peek into US politics and society
Surprises, pleasant or unpleasant, never cease to happen in everybody’s life. Recently, I had a pleasant surprise when the Blue Dart courier delivered two books from a friend in New York, M.P.…
15 May 2024 · 4 min read
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What is in your mind, O VIP?
Of our bondage to vagaries of our mind You cannot always be a hero, but you can always be a human being. —Anon It is well-known to all educated people, specially students…
11 May 2024 · 7 min read
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Musings on war-mongering and peace-loving political leaders
German Dictator Adolf Hitler had famously and axiomatically said that war is first born in the mind of man. So also terrorism, one may add. Again, it is attributed to Hitler, that…
9 May 2024 · 7 min read
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Why Govt. School and College buildings are dilapidated and rundown?
The Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Karnataka, had released huge amount in crores to 460 Government First Grade Colleges in the State during the academic year 2023-24. This amount was released…
8 May 2024 · 4 min read
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People's politician V. Sreenivasa Prasad: A Tribute
I have known V. Sreenivasa Prasad since early 1979-80 as it was the time he was making news as a young, dynamic and daring politician from among the Dalits. He was the…
2 May 2024 · 2 min read
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Hail! March of Indian Democracy
Revisiting the past in 2024 Among academicians in Mysuru, nay in India, if at all there was a Nehru fan and loyalist, it was Prof. C.D. Narasimhaiah (CDN), Professor in English, Manasagangothri,…
30 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
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Come, let us march to the polling booths tomorrow
Lok Sabha Election- 2024 is here. Tomorrow, April 26, from 7 am to 6 pm. Come, let us walk to the polling booths. Let us give our secret vote to elect our…
25 Apr 2024 · 4 min read