Editorial
VIP verbal diarrhea
The land, including Karnataka, hosted noble minds both in the distant past and within living memory who espoused the use of one’s tongue to converse and communicate with others taking care to…
28 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Healthcare heading haywire
Seeking cures for ailments in a steadily growing range of seriousness, many of them nagging despite medication administered under instructions of the attending doctor(s), not to forget those that are life-threatening, seems…
27 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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East is East, West is West The twain shall meet
Over a century ago, long before the term multicultural gained currency, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), born in the-then-Bombay, one of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907,…
23 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Sustaining sanity
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Government of India’s agency for collecting and analysing crime data, as defined by the Indian Penal Code, has been publishing the related information through the country’s…
22 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Monumental measure
Health of the country’s people at large is figuring in public domain nowadays to an unprecedented extent. However, the health of the country’s economy, being gauged by its Gross Domestic Product, a…
21 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Hospital hardware heat
In a layman’s perception treating ailments of human patients has witnessed a sea change with symptomatic guesswork yielding place to diagnostic evidence. However, while the former approach to medical practice was shared…
20 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Sumptuous Statistics Data diarrhoea
The caption for today’s column is likely to generate thoughts about the three magical figures (36-24-36) in the minds of the flock with wide-ranging interests in life. For others, the interaction among…
18 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Sickness stumps sickness-care
Global rating of India’s public health scenario continues to be at the lower rung of the scale being regularly published by different agencies, including the World Health Organisation. One is at a…
17 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Thank You
It was this day, nay this very evening, 39 years ago that Star of Mysore was born in this city as an Evening English Newspaper. Happily it continues to be your favourite…
16 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Cops cajole capital’s cuties
The governments both at the Centre and in the States across the country have rightly evinced concerns about safety of people moving about in motorised vehicles of various designs and carrying capacities…
15 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Tamil teri maa?
Idli and dosa have long ruled as India’s favourite foods. But now the national news menu is dominated by a new flavour: paneer in the South Indian style. Calling a Tamilian that…
15 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Melodious measure
Although Mysuru of yester years was a home to vocalists as well as exponents on different musical instruments, apart from scholarly composers of lyrics of outstanding literary value, everyone of them as…
14 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Bottom line: February 14
Right now, punsters are having a field day with Donald having ‘trumped’ the American presidential election and Obama all set to ‘barrack’ his successor’s policies. It will be a ‘miracle’ of sorts,…
14 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Belgian Cafe bans all American products
The popular Zeezicht Cafe, in Antwerp, Belgium, has recently stopped serving Coca Cola, Lay’s potato chips and every other American brand previously on its menu, in protest of President Donald Trump and…
13 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Cruel Spanish tradition!
You probably know about bullfighting and the controversy surrounding this ancient tradition, but there’s another less known tradition that claims the lives of tens of thousands of Spanish hunting dogs every year.…
13 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Bottomline: February 12
Airports are a microcosm of our society and let’s be honest — there is nothing pretty about us. We jump lines, are rude to everyone, and have body odour at 7am. But…
12 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Farmer’s new profession!
Wang Enlin, from Yushutun village, in China’s Heilongjiang Province, will never forget that day in 2001, when his village and farmland were flooded with toxic waste. On the eve of the Lunar…
11 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Techno Memorial Services at Buddhist Temple
In an effort to make his Buddhist temple more accessible to the wider public and draw younger generations to religion, a former DJ turned Buddhist priest has been holding “Techno Memorial Services”…
11 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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The Tagada: Craziest amusement park ride
Ever wonder what it would feel like to be thrown around in a giant metal bowl with only a few metal bars keeping you from literally flying out of the bowl or…
10 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Bandicoots in black coat
Implementing the land’s laws and interpreting them are different kettles of fish. The various wings of administration may have won battles in the task of ensuring the masses fall in line but…
10 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Individually packaged Strawberries on sale
Looking for an original Valentine’s Day gift? How about a special Kotoka strawberry hand-picked in Japan that comes pre-packed in a special gift box? It’s said to be very tasty, and it…
10 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Bottomline: February 11
To pen a few rhetorical lines that have rhyme and rhythm will be the unbridled urge of young writers. One such budding poet met the poetry editor of an avant-garde quarterly magazine…
10 Feb 2017 · 1 min read
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Writers’ world witnesses reduced readership
Protagonists of Kannada seem to have gone into a shell once the language, accepted as the tongue of 60-plus million people including those who have taken residence outside the State, both within…
10 Feb 2017 · 2 min read
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Bottomline: February 10
Poor Dr. Manmohan Singh is repeatedly resurrected by the Congress party to rescue it from the mess it finds itself in. No one ever accused him of being articulate, but he did…
10 Feb 2017 · 1 min read