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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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Mysore mourns for Dr.raj's death
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Mysore mourns Rajkumar as grieving fans observe bandh
TOUCHING TRIBUTE: An old woman weeping in front of a poster of Rajkumar in Mysore on Thursday.
Wadiyar mourns Rajkumar
Mr. Wadiyar described Dr. Rajkumar as a versatile actor who strode like a colossus in the Kannada film industry for o...
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My take on Mysore's miseries
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We have it from MGP (Mysore Grahakara Parishat) that there are at least 3,171 residents who believe that Mysore's most pressing problem is garbage disposal. Nearly as many of them give bad roads a higher rating on the city's chart of public miseries. As MGP secretary S.K. Ananda Thirtha put it, "Ther...
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Cloning Bangalore, are we ?
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A city that was once vibrant with music and culture; a city we once thought would keep pace with the changing times but some how would still manage to retain its old world charm (Venice in Italy, Bath in Britain have all achieved that balance, so why not our mahisha mandala?) - but, every time I visit Myso...
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Dr. Rajkumar
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FvÀ ±ÁAw, ¸ÀdÓ¤PÉ, ¸ËºÁzÀðUÀ¼À zsÉÆåÃvÀPÀ,
He is the symbol of peace, cordiality and good nature.
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He is the follower of simplicity and is highly principled.
vÀ£Àß CAwªÀÄ 0iÀiÁvÉæ0iÀÄ°è EªÀÅUÀ½UÉ®è C¨sÁªÀ,
There was a de...
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A tree story, true story
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Capt. Anup Murthy wrote, elsewhere on this site, about his spat with the authorities: At the corner of Kuvempunagar double Road near the Airtel office the electric company was busy knocking down branches of a tree. ….they started to indiscriminately cut branches that were nowhere near the p...
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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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Internet for all; a distant dream ?
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Google and Earthlink have been chosen to set up in San Francisco a citywide wireless Internet network that would enable residents log on wirelessly from anywhere in the city for free. The initiative has come from the city administration. Advantages: 1) It boosts the technology credentials...
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Global warming ? Not in Mysore
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Mysore is sweltering and almost everyone I meet says this year has become unusually hot and, that too, very early. Come to think of it, I have always heard the same comment about the summer every year over the past twenty years. But, unbelievably, my lo...
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Chutukagalu
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Komalangi
Enthaha Sogasu aa devana srusti,
Nee eduru sikkare keelalaguvudilla drusti.
Ninagoskara esto mahaniyaru adaru bhoogatha,
Adaroo sadakalavoo jana koruthtare ninage swagatha................
Jyothishi.
yava rastege hodaroo kanuththanobba jyothishi,...
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kelavu hanigavalu
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kelavu hanigavanagalu
Thayee
Ombathhu thingalugala garbhadharane,
Nantharavoo makkalinda jivanaduddakko bavane.
Jivana paryantha makkala mele baththada olume,
Muppinali thanodu bharavemba keelarime.
Vyangya
Purushottama Tiwari,
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English: A ‘killer’ language
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So says Prof. N S Raghunath, HoD, Sciences & Humanities, Regional Institute of Education. As he put it, English has grown into a killer language, decimating many regional languages. Having said this the professor concedes that we can’t do without English. Students need to master it to b...
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Apr 6, 2006
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Are we targeting Mysore ?
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Are we targeting Mysore?
Are we targeting Mysore otherwise a calm and cosmopolitan city. The investment coming to Mysore would certainly change the complexion of the city and its spatial dimensions. Is it necessary to target Mysore as we have great example of a decayi...
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dana thinnuvavanige gobbaradane
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Chinnada bannada singari,
Nanna kanasina vayyari,
Neeno, nanna kanasina kalpaneya sundari,
Ninagoskara nadeyithu innillada maramari,
Rathri hagalu nadeside naa thayari,
Baradiddaru, ninagoskara barede shayari,
Nanna heththavara ...
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No such thing as free lunch
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Prolonged stay in the US may have made me sound naïve, but I find all the talk about bad roads getting bogged down in a discourse on shoddy work and sub-standard material; poor maintenance and a paucity of funds. In the US, construction/repair of certain roads, free...
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What’s the idea, Elena
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Elena is unlikely to read this. But I thought it worth noting that they have started visiting this site – spammers flogging a site on ‘horoscope compatibility’, ‘widgets astrology’ or a blog about ‘no credit check car loan’. And then we have Damien Ashtaroth (name as published) asking us, in all inno...
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nanna Mysooru.........
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Mareayalagada hadivayassina manada hurupu........
banna bannada mysooru chittegala nenapugala bisupu.........
Jebinalli appa kotta ondu rupayiya pudigasu,
Chittegala hinde Dasa Prakashge hoguva hummassu.........
Thale kelage madi nethu hakidaru beeladu naalkane,
Adar...
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E-mailed Thoughts – 5: Our excuse
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Mr Raghavendra Puthraya fwded us a thought-provoking e-mail, the content of which is purported to have been authored by no less a person than the President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. Accompanying note asks the e-mail recipient to forward the mail to friends, instead of feeding them with jokes and junk mai...
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E-mailed Thoughts – 4: Government-dependent
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Mr Raghavendra Puthraya fwded us a thought-provoking e-mail, the content of which is purported to have been authored by no less a person than the President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. Accompanying note asks the e-mail recipient to forward the mail to friends, instead of feeding them with jokes and junk mai...
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E-mailed Thoughts – 3: You wouldn’t, would you?:
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Mr Raghavendra Puthraya fwded us a thought-provoking e-mail, the content of which is purported to have been authored by no less a person than the President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. Accompanying note asks the e-mail recipient to forward the mail to friends, instead of feeding them with jokes and junk m...
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E-mailed Thoughts – 2: What do you do about it?
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Mr Raghavendra Puthraya fwded us a thought-provoking e-mail, the content of which is purported to have been authored by no less a person than the President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. Accompanying note asks the e-mail recipient to forward the mail to friends, instead of feeding them with jokes and junk mai...
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E-mailed thoughts – 1: Why are we so negative?
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Mr Raghavendra Puthraya fwded us a thought-provoking e-mail, the content of which is purported to have been authored by no less a person than the President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. Accompanying note asks the e-mail recipient to forward the mail to friends, instead of feeding them with jokes and junk mai...
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Tipu Sultan’s rockets
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Car-maker Mercedes-Benz and archaeology experts from Britain and Frace have reportedly evnced interest in salvaging Tipu’s missiles launch site at Srirangapatna. The place is now a stinking empty patch, plastered with cow-dung cake and urine stain….(Click here to read more on it).
A florida...
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Bangalore/Singapore: Which way, Mysore?
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Maj. Gen. C K Karumbaya (retd.) would like to see Mysore go the Singapore way. He reckons that any fresh development in the city should be on a ‘vertical’ mode. As the general put it, it is time Mysoreans got used to living in high-rise apartments. Building bye-laws should be amended to permit 30-store...
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Tree killing.. stop this!
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So many lovely, well-grown trees are felled here in Mysore. The citizens of Mysore are watching helplessly as if nothing is happening. Except for a small group which is making a noise. But this is happening after the kill. The Forest Dept. turns a Nelson's eye. The traffic police say that the trees com...
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Jerry Rao on Sir Mirza
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Columnist Jaithirtha Rao in an Indian Express op-ed piece (Jan.18, 2006) calls for a commemorative stamp on Sir Mirza Ismail. It is time, he says, the postal department thought of bringing out the stamp to mark the 125th birth anniversary (in 2008) of a great Mysorean, who worked as Dewan for 15 years...
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Makara Sankranti
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Sun’s Journey.
the first major festival in the month of January is Makar Sankranti, Lohri or PongaL According to the lunar calendar, the sun transits from the Tropic of Cancer into the Tropic of Capricorn from Dakshinayana into Uttarayana in the month Poush in mid-January. The sun thus begins t...
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College dinagala hasya prasanga
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yuvaraja padavi collegenalli oduvaga, hudugiyara bagge madhura bhava ........
pakkada maharani haththira kelasavillade talaisuvudondu romanchaka anubhava .........
Heegondu dina, eduru sikkalobbalu gaja sharirada sundaraangi.........
namma gumpinallidda...
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Mysore palace
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Enidu sobagina aramane,belagutide jagajagane,harisiruvudu kannadadha mane,
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Shailaja's Mysore
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I landed in Mysore from Coimbatore when I was 10 years old. I instantly fell in love with the place. The huge footpaths on Ballal Circle Road, the huge, shady, colorful Ashoka trees, the corner churmuri gaadi and the list is endless. I had my schooling in Christ the King Convent, one, Sister Magd...
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