Columns
When AG is worried, it's serious
By T.J.S. George The Attorney General (AG) is the first Law Officer of the Government of India and acts as the top advocate for the Union Government. When such an Officer criticises…
4 Sept 2018 · 4 min read
Columns
1,767 stories · Page 55 of 74
Columns
Ego & Political Blindness
Our Defence Minister visited Kodagu district to take stock of the situation and see how the Defence personnel were performing. Unfortunately, her visit became more about her ego than about Kodagu disaster.…
1 Sept 2018 · 5 min read
Columns
Freedom Fighter B. Narayana Swamy
By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Mysore Every August 15, we pay respects and also invariably remember our freedom fighters. Patriotism knows no…
1 Sept 2018 · 6 min read
Columns
Meeting Devil’s Advocate Karan Thapar
There are two culturally enriching organisations in our city that came into existence in the past three years. One is the Mysore Book Clubs - 2015 under the auspices of the Mysore…
30 Aug 2018 · 6 min read
Columns
Do compliment your spouse today, Kal ho na ho...
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A story on WhatsApp: I overheard an argument of a young couple in a super-market recently. The young man angrily told his wife to do…
30 Aug 2018 · 4 min read
Columns
Pet Talk
By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka speaks about ammonia poisoning in aquarium, insects intelligence and about identifying real and fake fur. How to treat ammonia poisoning in aquarium water?…
29 Aug 2018 · 7 min read
Columns
Nature strikes terror in Kodagu
District Administration lacks professional approach; Mysore Citizens Forum visits Relief Centres Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy On August 22, 2018,…
28 Aug 2018 · 6 min read
Columns
The Best and the Worst on Show
By T.J.S. George, How many will learn how many lessons from the floods that devastated Kerala and Kodagu? The most important lesson is bound to go unlearned — that, ultimately, these were…
28 Aug 2018 · 4 min read
Columns
KODAGU DISASTER: MUSINGS
By Vikram Muthanna While everyone was busy mourning Vajpayee’s death, tragedy struck Kodagu as rains and landslides swallowed everything — humans, livestock, coffee estates, vehicles and homes. On the evening of August…
26 Aug 2018 · 16 min read
Columns
A Time to Ponder over Nature’s Fury !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Even as the affected people in flood-ravaged Kodagu and Kerala are being rehabilitated with great difficulty, we are already beginning to hear faint rumblings of a…
24 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
Columns
Pavan Varma’s Parakaya Pravesha of Adi Shankaracharya! - 2
[Continued from Aug. 17] It was clear that Pavan Varma settled down to write this book ‘Adi Shankaracharya’ in the format of hagiography after visiting places hallowed by the name of Adi…
23 Aug 2018 · 8 min read
Columns
Rat race, is it worth it?
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Sometime back I had met a girl studying in 9th std. living nearby during summer holidays. She had mentioned to me that she was interested…
23 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
Columns
The Prime Minister as Gentleman
By T.J.S. George My Lord, Never let me climb so high that I’m unable to embrace a stranger. The humanism in Atal Bihari Vajpayee made him taller than a Prime Minister. In…
21 Aug 2018 · 4 min read
Columns
A Statesman and a Survivor
Vajpayee is gone and everyone has good things to say about him, even the Opposition. He was the first Prime Minister with no connection to the Congress and coincidentally, it was Jawaharlal…
18 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
Columns
Pavan Varma’s Parakaya Pravesha of Adi Shankaracharya ! — 1
This year’s Mysuru Literary Fest was held on Aug. 12 and the VIP speaker, who was the cynosure of all eyes, among others, was Pavan K. Varma, former diplomat, Press Secretary to…
17 Aug 2018 · 7 min read
Columns
Taming a largely man-made tragedy
By Dr. Javeed Nayeem Over the past few days people living in some parts of our country have been going through a nightmarish flood situation due to the unusually heavy rainfall this…
17 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
Columns
Listen to your heart and decide
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A simple story narrated by Gopal Das: A vegetable vendor put up a board near his cart, “Fresh vegetables sold here” to attract new customers…
16 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
Columns
Why Karunanidhi was important
By T.J.S. George With M. Karunanidhi’s death, a chapter turns in history. That is rare because most political leaders constitute mere footnotes in history, let alone a page. Karunanidhi was more a…
14 Aug 2018 · 4 min read
Columns
The Relevance of IKEA and its Mysuru Connection
It seems, on Thursday all roads led to a Swedish Furniture Store in Hyderabad — IKEA. The company’s name is an acronym — Ingvar Kamprad the name of its Founder, Elmtaryd name…
11 Aug 2018 · 4 min read
Columns
Saving the Souls at Ranganathittu!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It was distressing to read reports that thousands of birds’ nests, eggs and hatchlings at the Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary were washed away recently when the floodgates…
10 Aug 2018 · 7 min read
Columns
Marriage, a gentle reminder of vows taken
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A very interesting story. Courtesy: Facebook. After seven years of marriage, my wife was a changed person. She stopped smiling, sometimes she would smile at…
9 Aug 2018 · 4 min read
Columns
Pet talk
By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka speaks about the diet for baby bird, puppy and pet goat. The mother bird is not in the nest with her eggs. Has…
8 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
Columns
Start with how to make a rifle
By T.J.S. George, We pay a price when we let other countries set our pace. One day Donald Trump includes India in the list of those "who are robbing America" and threatens…
7 Aug 2018 · 4 min read
Columns
‘Devil’s Advocate’ quoting Bible!
It was a wish fulfilment when I found the book “Devil’s Advocate: The Untold Story” by Karan Thapar, the TV Presenter-Interviewer we know, on my office desk. When I read about this…
6 Aug 2018 · 7 min read