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The State of Call Centres
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In Bangalore, a call centre hub, the rising number of abortions – up 50 per cent in two years – is blamed on the licentious lifestyles of the call centre workers.
During the day, workers fill the shopping malls for a dose of instant gratification unknown to their traditionally abstemious par...
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Physical Education a must at all levels.
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Posted on 8.10.2006
Physical Education a must at all levels
Our education system needs to introduce Physcial Education as a cumpulsory subject in all levels. It is the need of the hour and if it is started from the grass root level, it will reap rich rewards and finally the individual will grow up a...
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Nano:: The in-thing in technology
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A research team led by 73-year-old Prof. C N R Rao has been able to put together nano-particles that have the chemistry to produce light at low-energy consumption levels. Gallium nitride, says Prof.Rao, is a stuff that can replace bulbs and tubes in homes and offices; and become a source of energy-sa...
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Oct 4, 2006
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Remember Manjunath ?
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At 12.30 p.m on Monday, 2nd October, watch Star Gold. Why? Because, prior to the 1 p.m. premiere of Rang De Basanti, the channel is showing a feature 'Rang De Basanti salaam'. This feature offers a salute to ,quote, "five unsung heroes who have risen above and beyond their everyday lives...
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Sep 30, 2006
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Dasara tele-hash of music concert
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The Mysore city TV channel made a hash of its 'live' telecast of a music concert by Unnikrishnan at the Mysore Palace grounds on Thursday. I switched on around 8.30 p m when the artiste was in full flow. Within minutes the TV channel cut in with a spate of advertisements, seeking to promote, among...
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Sep 29, 2006
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Elusive Padma Awards
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At the 8th Cross music festival the other day (Sept 3) Ella Venkateshwara Rao, accompanying Mysore Nagaraj and Manjunath on the mrudanga, spoke, after the main raga, a few words that was sheer music to my ears. He said, ''Right from the days of Veene Seshanna, Mysore Vasudevacharya, T Chowd...
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Sep 29, 2006
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Mysore Dasara’s no big deal
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Much hyped ‘Jamboo savari’ is worse than a village shandy. It lacks luster; it’s nothing but chaotic. So says Prof. G Venkatasubbaiah to Deccan Herald’s Prathibha Nandakumar. Navarathri (he never calls it Dasara) had its glory during the Maharaja days, says the professor, adding that the process...
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Planning 'My Mysore'
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The Mysore Blint idea morphed into an action plan at a strategy session on Aug.5. Consensus is for going ahead with the Blint (blog in print). Dr Javeed Nayeem suggested we call it by some other name - My Mysore. It’s not gimmicky; it’s straight-forward, and it can be related to www.mymysore.com, of wh...
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Real Estate Bubble?
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Mr. Neelakantan at Interim Thoughts opines that the real estate market in Mysore is being highly overvalued given the lack of infrastructure and the slow rate of development.
"Mysore is more about hist...
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We're back online
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As I was saying, before we were rudely interrupted by a spate of posts by graffiti artistes, this is a forum devised to promote meaningful interaction on issues of common concern. We welcome post/comments that are enlightening, entertaining, evocative and issues-dri...
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Children Emotions – Part One
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Indian tradition recognizes nine rasas as representing our most important and basic emotions: love, joy, wonder, courage, calmness, anger, sadness, fear and disgust. These emotions are universal to mankind. Five are desirable, while four are unpleasant and usually undesirable.
Watch a s...
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Media: A flunky's last resort
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This piece refers to the status of journalism in early 1960s. There were exceptions even then. Mr. T S Satyan, for instance, was neither flunky, nor was photo-journalism his last option. He was already well established. in Life, when I was a sa...
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Signature Campaign to protest against Makkaji Chowka by MGP
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An Appeal from MGP to citizens of Mysore to protest against Makkaji Chowka project.
Mysore Grahakara Parishat had organized a public debate on Makkaji Chowka project on July 10th. Several concerned citizens including former mayors and corporators participated in the debate.
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Aug 26, 2006
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strike a balance
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I happened to meet a "cheddy dost" alias "jigri dost" over a drink, ofcourse both of Mysore origin, but left this sweet city pursuing career and also "udara nimittam bahukruta vesham". We got into a serious debate about life @ 40 plus and faced the following haunting questions/needs/require...
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Aug 26, 2006
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Dr Taher's complaint
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Dr Mohamed Taher, a MyMysore regular reader, has a grouse. His questions are ignored; his e-mails go unanswered; and no one takes note of his blog. His point is people don't have the courtesy to visit his blog, and leave their comments - good, bad or indifferent. I have received three mails from...
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Aug 26, 2006
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Showcasing Mysore in Washington
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My friend Mr Vijendra Rao, who is always up to something, is now collecting material for a CD showcasing Mysore, that would have a segment devoted to write-ups by Mysoreans on R K Narayan. We have in town very many who knew him or know of those who knew RKN. Would be nice if they could articul...
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Aug 26, 2006
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Why a ‘closed-door’ meet, Dr Shenoy?
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Star of Mysore reports (July 28) that the Makkaji Chowk project promoters held, what the paper called, ‘a closed-door' meeting at the Institution of Engineers, with a group public-spirited critics and representatives of MGP and the association of ‘concerned’ and ‘informed’ citizens. (I have pr...
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Sanjay Rao's baby blog
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A Washington-based Mysorean, Mr Sanjay S Rao, has sent us his baby blog. Mihika is over two years old. And the blog Mr Rao has created traces the child's life since birth. It's all in pictures, taken on every photo-op occasion in the family during the past two years - Mihika in Mysore; during a fam...
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Mother's Day & Father's Day
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Just a month ago , we celebrated 'Mother's day ' here in the U.S.A.
and today, Americans are celebrating 'Father's day.' Well, in india ,
we children are always encouraged to honor our Father, Mother and
Guru everyday of our lives not just on days specially designated for
this purpose.
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Jul 19, 2006
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How's life out there ?
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How does it feel to be the sole Indian, nay the only dark-skinned couple, in a small Japan that isn't easy to locate in an atlas ?
What are the chances of meeting, in this little place, someone who has actually been to Mysore, on your very first day out on a walk in a strange pla...
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Jun 27, 2006
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BOTTLED WATER - what a waste !
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Bottled water consumption , which more than doubled globally between 1999 and 2004 is heavily taxing the world’s eco system , says a recent study.
Ø Global consumption reached 154 billion liters in 2004 – up by 57% from the 98 billion liters in 1999.
Ø US was the leading consumer of bottled wat...
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Jun 26, 2006
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House Sparrow
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Until about ten / twenty years back, the house sparrow was one of the commonest birds in Mysore and was one of the most numerous and regular visitors to our houses frequently.
When I was studying in primary School at Mysore in early 1980’s we use to see the Sparrows flying frequently. With their “cliv...
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Jun 17, 2006
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Of our inactive blogs, unanswered e-mail
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I wrote about our blank blogs, e-mailed our bloggers about a planned revamp of our list.. Some wrote back; they stated their reasons; started posting or sought time to be able to get back into the act. But there were others who responded with stony silence. Presumably, they don’t take me or our e...
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Jun 16, 2006
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Masale-puri
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I was brought up in Mysore and have completed every last bit of my formal education from schol right up to PG in the venerable Manasagangotri campus.
Today I live in a small town in northern Japan with a population of less than 1 lakh.
In many ways it reminds me of Mysore. Lots of greenery, pretty...
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Jun 16, 2006
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Brain drain
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Aguttide nammorinidaloo
Eneillada
Pratibha Palayana.......
Nammorina Pratibha
Madidalu,
Neremaneya Huduganondige,
Palayana. !!!
Large scale brain drain(Pratibha) is
happening from our town,
Pratibha(girl) ran away along
with a neighboring b...
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Jun 15, 2006
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Truth of God and Family
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The central aim of Upanishad is to make an individual, family, community, nations and the whole stand on its feet in knowledge and thus one with Universal System. All the ancient knowledge system revolves around stressing our relationship and oneness with God. Every religion thus present...
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Jun 10, 2006
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Why we go unnoticed by so many
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Scott Heiferman has a clue. He lists 50 reasons why more people aren’t using your website. His context is browsers in the US. But quite a few of his reasons work for us as well. Take, for instance, Scott’s Reason number 1. More people aren’t using the site because they don’t want to generate content, the...
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Jun 9, 2006
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Devaraja Market: an anatomy of heritage
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Mysore Devaraja Market with a century-old history behind it is one of the oldest commercial buildings of Mysore. It was built in memory of Devaraja Wodeyar, one of the ablest rulers of Mysore Wodeyar dynasty, on the Sayaji Rao Road, a new road laid in memory of Sayaji Rao Gaekwad of Mysore, to ma...
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Jun 8, 2006
by H.R.Bapu Satyanrayana
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World Environment Day
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Today 5th June is World’s Environment Day, celebrated all over world. Every year 5th June United Nations celebrates World Environment Day. With this background let me share a few points about how our Hindu Mythologies have depicted our Mother Nature.
Hinduism has always been an environmentall...
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Jun 7, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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A candid take on MyMysore dot com
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In response to an 'alert' mail, I keep sending them now and then to our contacts, to draw attention to some info./issue posted in this site, I got a response from Maj. Gen. S G Vombatkere (retd.) that was candid, provocative and plainly unsettling. It k...
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