By M.L. Krishnaswami
Those residents of Mysuru, who are 80 and above would recall the past-life of this city in all its splendour and variety. Being a Royal City for nearly three centuries, every major activity of yore was centred around the Palace which itself had to undergo reconstruction after a disastrous fire that engulfed its front portion in the first-second quarter of the last century. The renovation gave rise to a more beautiful facade. It is now, without a speck of doubt, one of the eight or ten wonders of the world, drawing to its bosom thousands of tourists from across the country and abroad.
