By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
Dasara has arrived this year too like it has been doing over the centuries. Yes, it is our much- loved annual guest and it is also our State festival because it has long ago transcended much of its original religious identity and has now become an essential part of our cultural scene by which our State is identified worldwide. And, the Dasara that we Mysureans have been celebrating here in our city every year has been a special, spectacular show, unique to Namma Mysuru. It is a different matter that over the past four decades or so, after the fading away of our royalty, it has certainly lost much of its colour and charm thus having been reduced to just a grey shadow of what it once was.
