Dasara-2020 will go as a most memorable event in the history of Mysuru. Firstly, it is being held amid threat of COVID-19 pandemic. Secondly, it will be inaugurated by a medical doctor and a Covid Warrior who has given a fresh lease of life to thousands of families.
In a tete-a-tete with this correspondent, Dr. C.N. Manjunath, a noted Cardiologist and Director of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bengaluru, who will open this year’s Dasara festival atop Chamundi Hill tomorrow, shared nostalgic memories of his student days in Mysuru. From being a spectator of world-famous Dasara festival, he feels it as a big honour for a person from the medical fraternity to open the centuries-old “People’s festival.”
