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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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POWER & SEX
Even as Prajwal’s sex scandal is still in the news, allegations of molestation are coming in against West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose. Politically motivated or not, sex and power have always…
11 May 2024 · 6 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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Rain in the city, at last, but at what cost?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD After a full six weeks of desperate waiting in the sheer agony of being steeped in one of the harshest summers in recent times, our city…
5 May 2024 · 6 min read
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Arrest Prajwal … but who will save the women & children ?
By now, we have heard, read and seen the Member of Parliament from Janata Dal (Secular), Prajwal Revanna, turn into a sexual predator. He has put a different kind of ‘S’ in…
4 May 2024 · 5 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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Election Musings
As I meet voters, party workers and politicians, I get the sense that fear-mongering and lies are afoot this election season, along with freebies. In today’s full-front-page advertisement in The Times of…
27 Apr 2024 · 5 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
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In passing: Saeed Akhtar Mirza
In the midst of electioneering cacophony, I received an invitation from the moving spirit and ever agile Founder-Chairperson of Mysuru Book Clubs-2015 Shubha Sanjay Urs for an evening of conversation and informal…
22 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
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The Great Indian Election Exercise!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Our general elections, undoubtedly the greatest political event, that we see every five years in our country, or maybe even across the world and which are supposed…
21 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
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The Name Game
Early this morning I was to meet the popular TV journalist Rajdeep Sardesai for a breakfast interview regarding the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Mysuru-Kodagu region. We agreed to meet at the…
13 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
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More musings about our Exhibition!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Going by some very interesting feedback that I have been getting over the past one week, my last article, where I discussed what our Dasara Exhibition…
7 Apr 2024 · 6 min read
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Crossing over to Politics
The process of filing nomination papers is underway nationwide for a phase-wise election and two nominations caught my eye: Retired IAS Officer and former Mysuru DC G. Kumar Naik, who will contest…
6 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
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Freedom from the bondage of Electoral Bonds Scheme: What next?
On Sunday, March 31, Mysore Open Forum (MOF) had arranged a talk on ‘Electoral Bonds and Political Funding.’ It is understandable because the Supreme Court has on Feb. 15, 2024 struck down…
2 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
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Of safe exhibitions and old memories!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent statement from Ayub Khan, the new Chairman of Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) that henceforth, all exhibitions, of all kinds in the city, would be…
31 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
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Too Hot ? It’s Tree Time
Our city is getting hotter with every passing year. As temperatures soared yesterday, the Karnataka Government advised citizens to turn into camels: “Drink sufficient water whenever possible, even if you are NOT…
30 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
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A summer of drought and despair: A solution
In view of the severe water scarcity staring us in the face, this summer, specially in Bengaluru, a city of 1,50,00,000 population and of huge industrial hub, water management experts have come…
22 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
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Adieu my gentleman politician: ‘Mayor’ Vasu
One of the familiar names among the politicians, especially Congress politicians, in our city since early 1980s was that of Vasu. Simply Vasu, without any initials, any prefix or suffix to his…
17 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
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The glorious past of a present-day landmark!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last article was about the striking similarity in the Torquay Fountain in England and its identical twin that we have here in our city. I…
17 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
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Yaduveer, we’ll wait & watch
At long last, the BJP has announced its candidate. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the BJP’s choice of a royal candidate, has ignited a flurry of reactions in the Mysuru-Kodagu region. Yaduveer’s selection…
16 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
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Winds of change sweeping the country | What next for Dr. Sudha Murty?
With the 2024 Parliamentary election at the threshold of polling booths, the country is all set to see a new government, or a government in new garbs or possibly the old wine…
15 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
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Prathap Simha denied BJP ticket …but the lion will roar…
The BJP ticket for the Mysuru-Kodagu Parliamentary election 2024 has gone to Mr. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the adopted son of Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar of the Mysore Royal Family. 2. The BJP…
14 Mar 2024 · 5 min read