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COVID Warrior in plain sight
As Covid-19 rages on and ravages our lungs, the demand for oxygen is at an all-time high. So high that the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Karnataka Chapter has stated that…
19 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Re-opening Schools, an unwise move
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The Government has announced that schools across the country will be re-opened to conduct face-to-face teaching for students of class 9th to 12th from the 21st…
18 Sept 2020 · 5 min read
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Pet Talk
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains how to keep surroundings around the cattle sanitised By Maneka Gandhi What do the movement and position of the tail mean in cattle? The tail…
16 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Nostalgically Speaking — 9: S.G. Sanath Kumar, Head Master of Hardwicke High School
It was a time Star of Mysore was catching the imagination of its readers and its circulation was gradually soaring. With my wife and child in Kodagu, I was finding life here…
13 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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55 Years After: A Memorial to an Indian Martyr
When I read the poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by the English poet Thomas Gray (1751) many years ago, I found many quotable quotes in that rather long poem. But…
11 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Pet Talk
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells how long should a guinea pig be in its cage and do they need exercise By Maneka Gandhi How often do you need to cut…
9 Sept 2020 · 7 min read
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All the lying they have done
By T.J.S. George A few days ago, for the first time in my eventful life, I felt jealous of the Americans. I was watching a press conference with President Trump facing his…
8 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Nostalgically Speaking — 8: Prof. G.T. Narayana Rao (GTN)
One afternoon in the year 1979-80, a surprise visitor came to my office to meet me. It was Prof. G.T. Narayana Rao, known to all, including his students, as GTN. Both of…
6 Sept 2020 · 7 min read
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Blocking Ambulance should be criminal offence?
A week ago, the city Police arrested a car driver for deliberately blocking the way of an ambulance carrying an aged person who suffered a heart attack. The patient, 85-year-old Chandrashekar Acharya,…
5 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Homage to Atal Bihari Vajpayee
By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Mysore It was my good fortune to have met Vajpayee twice in New Delhi. He had not…
5 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Of Two Bridges across Two Rivers
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past two weeks I have written about interesting history of the two centuries-old Lushington Bridge across the River Cauvery at Shivanasamudra and how it…
4 Sept 2020 · 5 min read
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Here cometh oilman with memories of the past
A few days back I received a book titled ‘Random Thoughts of an Oilman,’ by U.B. Acharya, obviously the oilman — one who worked for oil companies. In these days of COVID-19…
3 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Pet Talk
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells how to maintain good health of cows and deworming By Maneka Gandhi How often should cattle be dewormed? Young animals should preferably be dewormed every…
2 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Congress: Exploding from within ?
By T.J.S. George There was a storm in the Congress teacup last week. It re-established two facts. One, that there is a section of Congressmen who now see the Gandhi family's hold…
1 Sept 2020 · 4 min read
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Nostalgically Speaking — 7 H.S. Shankaralingegowda, former MLA
Among my close friends during early years of Star of Mysore and Mysooru Mithra till about 1994 was H.S. Shankaralingegowda. I came to know him when he barged into my office, an…
30 Aug 2020 · 6 min read
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Basking in Reflected Glory
Kamala Harris is the Vice-Presidential candidate pick for the Democratic Party in the United States which is going in for elections in November. And the moment it was announced, as usual we…
29 Aug 2020 · 5 min read
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Bridging the past and the present !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Picking up the thread of my last week’s narration about the historic Lushington Bridge at Shivanasamudra and my dismay at its botched up restoration in the…
28 Aug 2020 · 5 min read
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Pet Talk
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells how to take care of abandoned litter of kittens By Maneka Gandhi What are the symptoms of rippling skin? The Trademark: Rippling Skin - The…
26 Aug 2020 · 7 min read
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The virtuous out, the virtual in
By T.J.S. George Consider the emerging India that is Bharat. Consider a clutch of latest developments and their implications. Consider what is said and what is unsaid, what is done and what…
25 Aug 2020 · 4 min read
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Nostalgically Speaking - 6: L. Revannasiddaiah, IPS (Rtd.)
When I came to Mysore in 1977 for good, the Police head for the district, which included the newly-carved present Chamarajanagar district also, was the Superintendent of Police (SP). There was no…
23 Aug 2020 · 7 min read
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A Bridge not too Far !
By Dr.K. Javeed Nayeem As most of us perhaps know ‘A bridge too Far’ was the title of an epic war movie from the seventies about the Second World War, based on…
21 Aug 2020 · 6 min read
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Pet Talk
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka speaks about hyperventilating and intussusception in dogs By Maneka Gandhi Why does my dog sleep so much? Since dogs do not go to school or work,…
19 Aug 2020 · 7 min read
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The Congress is Modi's big advantage
By T.J.S. George Narendra Modi, of course, has gifts of leadership that put him above his challengers. But even his admirers will agree that the weaknesses of the Congress are a big…
18 Aug 2020 · 4 min read
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I-Day: Some Memories
By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Mysore India became independent on 15th August 1947 and consequently the British rule came to an end.…
17 Aug 2020 · 6 min read