By Irfana Husen, Audiologist and Speech Language Therapist, District Disability Rehabilitation Centre, Mysuru Hearing loss is a common problem caused by noise, aging, disease and heredity. People with hearing loss may find…
By V.N. Prasad Many feats achieved. Many congratulations due. Many brows rose. Many questions that arose, ironies and maladies galore at Ahmedabad. Ultimately, congratulations to our boys on mesmerising the Englishmen. Congratulations…
World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Mar. 3 as World Hearing Day. The theme of World Hearing Day-2021 is ‘Hearing Care for all! Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate.’ To mark this occasion, here we…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy Under UPA when crude oil price reached a high of 147 dollars per barrel in May 2008, petrol price in Delhi was around Rs. 50 per litre. On…
Dreamweavers of a quaint village near Srirangapatna who wove clothes for Mysore royal family and Tipu Sultan By Vinay Karekura Kodiyala, over 20 kilometres from Srirangapatna, is like any other quaint village…
'Looks' matter a lot in adoption of animals at Mysuru ZooNo takers for Hippos By S. Kenneth Shishir Which animal is most sought-after for adoption? No prizes for guessing. It is either…
By U.B. Acharya In the previous Test match against England, India’s Ashwin Ravichandran not only collected five wickets in the first innings but also scored a brilliant century in the second innings…
By Rajkumar Bhavasar [Pics. by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav] A few members of the once famed horseshoe maker generation work in cramped spaces on Pulikeshi Road in Tilaknagar, Mysuru. Like the many old…
By S.T. Ravikumar [Pics. by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav] The Band House that once housed the Mysore Police Band will be brought back to its past glory and restored to its original place…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy There are more than three million (30 lakh) registered Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) or Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in India. It is a well-known fact that most are just…
“I am confident that more people will get vaccinated in the coming days and weeks.” —Dr. K. Sudhakar, Health and Medical Education Minister Vaccinating healthcare and frontline workers seems to have become…
By Dr. Veena Bharathi “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms…
Being born and brought up in Mysuru, he considers himself fortunate to serve as Tahsildar of Mysuru taluk. Holding Gram Panchayat (GP) elections without any law and order problem and clearing rampant…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In ancient China, the belief was that as the common red fox grew older, it would get supernatural powers. Its colour would change…
By Vijayamala K. Saralaya The ninth concert under the online music programme ‘Yuva Sangeetha Sambhrama-2020’ of Sri Thyagaraja Sangeetha Sabha Charitable Trust was a violin duet, premièred on 3rd January on the…
By Girija Madhavan During the Corona lockdown children have been receiving lessons at home online. I recall my own "home schooling" in Mysore seventy-eight years ago; the loneliness I felt then maybe…
It is a dream of many to be a high-ranking bureaucrat but only a few manage to scale the heights by cracking Civil Services exam and later being a successful officer and…
By B.C. Thimmaiah Have you ever been to a shop dedicated to just walking sticks? Yes, you read it right — walking sticks. In all shapes and sizes, in cane, dead hard-wood,…
By M.B. Pavan Murthy At a time when modern bicycles equipped with gears & other facilities are becoming popular, for many reasons including users’ love for non-motorised transport, one can see very…
By M.T. Yogesh Kumar It was a disturbed childhood. A boy faced ignominy, pain, shame, humiliation due to hormonal changes in his body. But took everything as challenge, studied law and became…
Sing like no one is listening, love like you never been hurt, dance like no one is watching and live like it is heaven on earth. ― Mark Twain By Sujata Rajpal…
By Nandini Srinivasan Necessity is the mother of invention! And when hard times hit you, the need to keep going brings out the creativity in you. That’s what Jairam, who sells sugarcane…
Vegetable vendor Nagaraj says he was in Delhi when ex-PM Indira Gandhi was assassinated By H.R. Bapu Satyanarayana For me, talking to my flower seller, vegetable seller, fruit seller, milkman, autorickshaw drivers…
By Gouri Satya, Sr.Journalist On this day three years ago (Feb. 16, 2018), I wrote an article titled ‘Saga of Small Newspapers in Mysuru’ for the Anniversary Issue of Star of Mysore.…
