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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
A...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mysore Masala Poori
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During my good old academic days in Mysore, more particularly in Yuvaraja's college, it was a pleasure indeed to sit on the compound walls with masala spread tomato slices or the famous "masala poori"plates that was being prepared in the push carts surrounding the clock tower/town hall areas. Th...
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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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Mother's day
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Nimagyake ivattonde dina thayiya gynapaka?
Why do you remember the mother only on mother's day?
Avalannu Aleyalu ideye yavudadaroo mapaka?
Is there any gauge to measure the depth of the mother?
Onde dina yake mother's day?
Why mother's day has to be celeberated onl...
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May 15, 2006
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Hasya Chutuka
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Nodidaga Gommatana Bhavya Vigraha,
When i saw the Great idol of Gomateswara,
Nanoo prayatniside "manassina nigraha",
I made an effort to exercise control on the mind.
Astralle Aithenage obba sundariya anugraha....,
A beautiful girl showed me a favour.
Eega...
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Dinu's blog
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This is for all readers of the blogs that appear on mymysore.com, to inform them about Mr. Dinakar's blog page. When one opens the blog page, one gets to see a blank page! Click on "view my complete profile" and one can see a long list of his blog articles.
Dinu's style of writing is free flowing and fun....
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Up close and cheeky with Mysore crocs.
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Your site which has a human quality to it will grow into a nice mushroom of blogs. My connection to Mysore goes back to 1875 when my great grandfather Horace Archibald Gass, Conservator-general of forests lived in Mysore for a while. So did his son Sir Neville Archibald Gass, my grandfather's brother...
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Blogger Viji’s back, with a bang
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Mr Vijendra Rao, Viji to pals, says he is back into blogging. Is that a promise, Mr Rao? If I remember right (can’t be sure, it was that long ago), he said he was into blogging to stay when he posted his first piece –‘E-effigy’. This was some six months back, give or take a few days. If someone takes th...
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Would pigs sue our mayor ? Unlikely
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'If Pigs Have a Say, They'd Sue the Mayor' - So I wrote an year back, when the pig menace was drummed up to be at its peak. The then mayor had made it a personal crusade to have pigs banished from the city limits. Nothing much happened. They are still out on streets, the pigs. I don't supp...
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Our blank blogs
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Aviation may not be everyone’s cuppa. One of our bloggers said as much, in response to my mail seeking their thoughts of the bloggers on our list on a move to revamp the bloglist. Evidently, in its current format, Mymysore blogs do not appear to hold out much appeal, even for the blo...
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Jun 2, 2006
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On Shaheed Tipu Sultan
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A columnist of Lahore’s ‘Daily Times’, Ishtiaq Ahmed, in his latest piece on ‘Hindu legal codes and democracy’, cites my NYC based Mysore-connected friend and occasional surfer of this site.
Columnist Ahmed wrote: “I received an email from Premkumar Harimohan in which he writes,...
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