After reading the article by N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC, on the Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel run by ITDC, now being handed over to the State Government which in turn has given it to the State-owned Jungle Lodges and Resorts Ltd., which in turn is likely to call a global tender to take over the running of the hotel and the two nostalgic photographs published by Star of Mysore recently, I had a call from my friend K. Vijaya Kumar, former Jt. Director of Information & Publicity, Government of Karnataka.
He was reminding me of what he wrote in SOM dated 21st August 2011 about this hotel under the title “Taking charge (!) of Lalitha Mahal Palace: A difficult task in my official career.” He was taking it over from the then Maharaja of Mysore Jayachamaraja Wadiyar, on behalf of the Government of Karnataka
