Height of Penny Wise, Pound Foolish !!
Sir, The recent Income Tax and ED raid in Bowring Institute (a reputed Club in Bengaluru), wherein three lockers belonging to one Avinash Amarlal Kukreja, a city-based financier was forcibly opened by…


Sir, The recent Income Tax and ED raid in Bowring Institute (a reputed Club in Bengaluru), wherein three lockers belonging to one Avinash Amarlal Kukreja, a city-based financier was forcibly opened by…
Sir, The much-hyped multi-level vehicle parking at the Town Hall premises may not see light in the near future. Looks like the contractor to whom this work was entrusted has left the…
Sir, Heaps of dry leaves and garbage are piled up in front of my house for the last several weeks. The pourakarmikas dump it just in front of the compound of my…
Sir, With the construction of the Outer Ring Road and subsequent usage of the same by the users a decade ago, the traffic density has doubled. In the recent past many major…
Sir, Apropos the Dog and Pig menace at various localities in city (SOM dated 4.7.2018 and 7.7.2018), the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) staff have visited the spots at Gokulam on 9.7.2018 and…
Sir, I am a senior citizen aged 70 and had ventured to have darshan of Goddess Chamundeshwari on the special occasion of First Ashada Friday. It took me two hours to get…
Sir, I wish to bring to the notice of the concerned about non-repair of street-lights at 23rd Main, 25th Cross, JP Nagar, since April 2018. Regarding this, a complaint has been given…
Sir, We, the residents of Vijayanagar 3rd Stage, thank the DFO and RFO, Urban Greening, Aranya Bhavan, Mysuru, for acceding to our request and planting around 1,000 tree saplings in our area…
Replace ornate stone balustrades with cement Sir, This is with reference to the news item “Raja Marga in a shambles” (Star of Mysore dated July 6) wherein it is reported that, the…
Sir, This refers to the report “Raja Marga in a shambles” (SOM dated July 9). Raja Marga was a very ill-conceived project. The laying of interlocking concrete tiles to cover all the…
Sir, Nowadays, keeping the kid on the lap of the parent while driving has become very common. I am seeing such practice regularly in the city. One such incident was captured by…
Sir, In an extremely depressing political atmosphere in Karnataka when our Chief Minister Kumaraswamy sheds copious tears unable to withstand the buffeting pressure from all sides, in a stark contrast is the…
Sir, I am an addict to the Point of View column by TJS George for many years. His political comments are like heat-seeking missiles which sometimes misses its target. In his yesterday’s…
Sir, Very recently I travelled to Mysuru from Bengaluru in Rajyarani Express. The train pulled up at 4th Platform but it was a surprising and a bit worrying sight to see passengers…
Sir, During my latest visit to city, it was a pleasure to see Star of Mysore shining as ever. I have no hesitation to affirm that the STAR has been doing an…
Undoubtedly, there are several issues with UPOR. But they can be solved if the public, specially the expert, can work with the government to help find a solution. Now with the latest…
Sir, Apropos the letter titled ‘A Mysurean’s tryst with Kodagu’ published in Star of Mysore dated July 11, I want to narrate my experience of staying in Kodagu from 1962 to 1966…
Sir, We are thankful for the Mysuru Division of South Western Railway for arranging an overnight weekend train to Renigunta via Bengaluru City. The move comes at a time when the Bengaluru-Mysuru-Chennai…
Sir, This is to bring to your notice a very pleasant experience I had during my visit to K.R. Hospital recently along with my hearing impaired son for processing the disability certificate-cum-identity…
Sir, While it is needed to widen roads when traffic increases and there are no economic ways of reducing such traffic, it may force us to fell trees. However even when we…
Sir, I should consider it treason on my part if I don’t respond now to KBG’s Abracadabra titled “Will Kodagu, heaven on earth, cease to exist ?” (SOM dated June 23). Yes,…
Sir, A month ago, I travelled in the infamous S6 coach of Kaveri Express to Chennai. I experienced two kinds of problems during this journey. Firstly, the coach brake makes a lot…
Sir, Apropos Dr. Shyam Prasad’s letter regarding equipping KSRTC Bus Conductors with ATM/RFID card readers (SOM dated June 29) which goes a long way to solve the give and take change problems…
Sir, This is further to the letter of Arun Kumar in SOM recently. We the residents of Srirampura 2nd Stage, Ayodya Layout near Hunasemara Bus Stop and Preethi Hill View Layout near…