Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule [Continued from yesterday] For those born before 1947, when India won independence from the British and after that year, visiting Goa and Pondicherry (now…
Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule [Continued from yesterday] I have heard, read and seen on TV Ramlila being played during Dasara as part of the festival celebration. In Delhi…
Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule [Continued from Oct. 31] Goa beaches have an amalgam of names in Portuguese, English and in Marathi because of dominant Marathi influence and may…
Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule The rise of Mr. Rishi Sunak, the Hindu British citizen of Indian-origin, rising to the dizzy height as the Prime Minister of England at…
I am 100% sure the late lamented World War II British Prime Minister and hero, Winston Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill) must be turning in his grave at the tiny Parish…
Congratulations to our dear Kannadiga Sri Mallikarjun Kharge, the veteran Congressman, on his being elected as the 98th President of the Indian National Congress (INC) on October 19, 2022. By the way,…
Among one of the most popular Hindu mantras is Om Namah Shivaya. It means salutation to Lord Shiva, the most important Godhead of the Hindu pantheon. Shiva is one of the three…
I believe that one of the important qualities a journalist must have is curiosity. If he is not curious to know Who, What, Where, When, Why and How — five W(ives) and…
A royal touch was given to the Great Bombay Circus when it was inaugurated by the royalty Mrs. Pramoda Devi Wadiyar on 24th September as one more attraction for Dasara. Except for…
Kama, Kamasutra and Khajuraho! Reading about sex-related offences committed by men in our daily newspapers and viewing them with news reports and in panel discussions on TV, I am left wondering what…
The whole of yesterday afternoon I was glued to my grandpa’s rose-wood armed chair till late in the evening watching the grandiose, spectacular, colourful and elaborate funeral ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II…
A few months back I went to my ancestral house in Kodagu and also availed the opportunity to go to the nearby Igguthappa Temple — dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is the…
Once upon a time there was a wandering monk, obviously in the ancient land of Bharath. Just as the Hindu holy scripture Veda has no name of its author or authors, this…
Are we well braced for a “Grand” Dasara that our Government has declared, in great aplomb and confidence, to celebrate this year’s Dasara beginning from Sept. 26 to Oct. 5 in a…
Ayn Rand did warn us in 1957!: “When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is…
Hindu religion seems to be a religion for all people for all reasons and for all seasons. Some times I wonder whether it is a religion, like other religions, with a Godhead…
[Continued from yesterday] Swami Vivekananda said: “Let New India arise..... Let her arise out of the peasant’s cottage....., out of the huts of the fisherman, the cobbler and the sweeper. Let her…
Recently I was invited by Swami Muktidanandaji, head of Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysuru, to speak on Swami Vivekananda’s vision for India at the Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE), Yadavagiri. Produced…
Like raindrops that keep falling through the foliage hours after the rain has stopped, I am coming back to an episode in the recently held (July 23-24) Mysuru Literature Festival. That was…
[Continued from yesterday] Later during the tea break I met Geetan- jali Shree at the writers’ lounge. I asked her what exactly the title of the book meant or suggested. Yes, she…
The Mysuru Literature Festival, launched by that dynamic bubbling young lady of our regal city, also a city of education, art and literature, had to go ‘underground’ due to COVID-19 during 2020…
Yesterday morning as I sat at my working desk, there sat a brown cover addressed to me on the table. It came from Palanganda T. Bopanna, a journalist author from Bengaluru. Inside…
Ten years ago on one Wednesday, 13th June, 2012, Star of Mysore had made an appeal along with Rotary Mysore to our kind and philanthropist readers to contribute their mite to financially…
After November 2019, I was hibernating (or was it hiding?) in my house afraid of the rakshasa (demon) called COVID-19. It was only in the last two months I chose to attend…
