Every year, Dasara Exhibition is held as part of the Nada Habba. However, sadly, the preparations are never on time. There is hardly a year when the Expo has opened along with the commencement of the ten-day Dasara festivities. This has been happening in spite of the fact that a separate Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) has been set up. This shows the utter lack of planning as the visitors are greeted with empty stalls even after the Dasara celebrations are over.
Everyone wonders why the Ministers and the bureaucrats concerned in charge of the Dasara Exhibition do not follow the model left behind by the erstwhile Mysore Royal Family. R. Raja Chandra, the son-in-law of late Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, the last ruler of Mysore, has gone down the memory lane digging into the history when the Dasara Exhibition was first held in 1888 and how it transformed over the years. Now read on...
