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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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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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Feb 4, 2006
by Dr. Mohamed Taher
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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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Feb 3, 2006
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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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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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nenapugalu.........
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Chinnadantaha ooru namma Mysooru,
nenapinaladalli balyada nenapina hasiru,
Jivana naveya thumba kesaru,
gatha kalava nenasikondaga hora hommuththade nittusiru,
vardhakyadalli nammooralle nelasuva akankshe,
addi athankagalillade jivana savesuva nirikshe,
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Dose.........
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najarbadina mylari hotelna thuppada masale dose.....
keralisuththade ivaththiguu aase......
dooooradinda baruththane grahaka.....
banda nanthara ivanaguththane hotte baka......
myalarigooo goththilla ee ruchiya chidambara rahasya!!!!!!!!!
ruchiyada dos...
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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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Sri Vani Vilasa Sannidhana
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MAHARANI KEMPANANJAMMANNI OF VANI VILASA SANNIDHANA
The name of 'Sri Vani Vilasa' is to Mysore what Queen Victoria is to the British. Maharani Kempananjammanni of Vani Vilasa Sannidhana [in full] occupies as high a place as any in the annals of Mysore history. Her contributions to the citizen...
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Jan 10, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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Annual family rendezvous at Mysore
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Every year during Ganesh Chaturti family members of Mr Suresh Kamath, chairman and managing director of Laser Soft Infosystems Ltd, assemble for a reunion at Mysore. "We take our children to our old schools, college and other places that hold memories. I think this will help our kids find their root...
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The Wadiyar legacy
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The Wadiyars built 11 palaces in Mysore, of which Jayalashmi Vilas mansion (1905 vintage) at Manasagangotri is credited to Sri Chamaraja Wadiyar. It was a gift to his eldest daughter Jayalashammani, wife of the then deputy commissioner Narasaraja Kemparaja Urs.
1959: Mysore University acqui...
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Devaraja Market: an 'I' view
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I remember during the sixties when I was a small kid, whenever any one mentioned "Let's go the Market" it always meant "Devaraja Market" - no other market would do - not even the "Chikka (Vanivilasa) Market" (near Siddappa Square) - which was closer to our home in Chamarajapuram. We always enjoyed the...
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Amways-Subtle game of PR work to waylay on golden path leading to nowhere
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About a year ago I was drawn to the Amway fretenity by a well meaning friend of mine to use supplements which acording to him would lead me to a very heaalthy life and what is more that I could earn tidy bit of money. It would require some leg work contacting some friends to whom I could spread the message. I w...
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Jan 3, 2006
by Anonymous - a scam victim
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The Weighty Nandi
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“Sir, we recently visited Mysore and found the Nandi atop Chamundi Hill fascinating. Can you tell us how much it weighs?” – poser to Karnataka finance and industries minister, Mr P G R Sindhia, from an eighteen something in a 29-member group visiting India under the Centre’s internship programme fo...
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MyMysore is a Bore
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Shri GVK, Lack of time does'nt permit me to check various web sites incl. mymysore.com which, in any case, I found to be rather meandering & boring.
So says a NYC-based NRM, in response to my e-mail alert on a newly posted item on the web I thought might interest him. To put a positive spin on it, o...
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Mysore calling Madhu, ‘Do you read us?’
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We celebrate every Mysorean who figures in our directory. A few merit a mention in the dispatches, as they say. Mr Konanur Ramachandra Rao Madhukar is such a Mysorean, for two reasons – 1) he is the first amateur radio enthusiast to figure in our directory; and 2) he belongs to a fourth generatio...
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Ballot box ‘puja’
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Offering ‘puja’ to the ballot box by a party candidate before the start of polling is a practice not uncommon in rural Mysore, says a Deccan Herald report. It happened at Monday’s polling (Dec.19, 2005) for panchayat elections. According to the newspaper report, a party candidate, along with famil...
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Mysore-1976
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I got a government seat at the medical college in Mysore in 1976, and the moment I got down at the Mysore railway station I was confused because all buildings looked like the Mysore palace, says Prof. Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam, a native of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, now at University of Leeds medical sch...
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Dec 19, 2005
by Vijendra Rao
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100, and still batting
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Read in Star of Mysore about the new centenarian of Mysore, Sri Bapu Ramanna. My thoughts go back to the Sarada Vilas High School days many moons ago. Ramanna’s house was on our way to the school. Whenever there was cricket, be it the Ranji Trophy, the zonal or the test match, his “galli mane” used to beco...
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Dec 19, 2005
by Vijendra Rao
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My kind of town
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That is the heading of a Telegraph, London, travel feature. It seeks response from a feature writer to a set of twelve questions on a specified town. The write-up that prompted me to post this item happened to be on Manhattan Those involved in tourism promotion in Mysore (Attn.- Suresh Yer...
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People power in Mysore since 1881
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Oct.7, 1881, saw the first meeting of ‘the assembly of representative ryots and merchants from all taluks of the province of Mysore’, held at Jaganmohan Palace, with Dewan C V Rangacharlu in the chair. 144 members participated. The idea of a deliberative assembly was mooted by the last chief commis...
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IT Invasion
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Is Information Technology invasion to nostalgic city of Mysore is a bane? What can this change doto the stable economic model. Do we need this change? Isn't it very much unrealistic depending on some economy which has no relevance to US? Vasuki
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'Modest' Mysorean in 'Awesome' America
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( 'The Sunday Oregonian', Portland, carried the other day a write-up, by Kent Hartman, on the American fixation for using superlatives. This evoked an 'infotaining' response from a visiting Mysorean. We publish excerpts from his letter to Hartman.)
Dear Mr. Kent Hartman, Your write-up provid...
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Oct 31, 2005
by K.A. Somaskekara
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A Disorienting Experience
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Visiting historical sites in Karnataka makes for a disorienting experience, according to Mr Sharan Desai, former state planning board member with passion for the study of history and archeology. He is quoted in ‘The Hindu’ as saying most of the lesser known sites he visited run the risk of crumblin...
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Mysore Dasara
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Mysore has become synonymous with 'Dasara' festival. The Dasara festival celebrations have a long history and have been attracting tourists and devotees from round the globe. It is not only the mere pomp and celebrations that have made 'Mysore Dasara' world famous but the royal patronage i...
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Mysore, the Best City
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I am Mrs. B.S. Chandrasekhar from Jayanagar, Bangalore. Chandra (googly cricket bowler) and myself are from Mysore. Chandra is from Lakshmipuram and I am from V.V. Mohall (Vontikoppal). I always tell the people we meet that Mysore is the bes...
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A tourist seeking 'Mysore cultural food'
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The driver couldn't figure out what that one was. "Food? Many hotels," blurted a confused taxi driver. To drive in his point, the tourist in his guttural singsong voice again shouted with animated gestures, "We want Mysore culturallll food!!!".The driver fell silent, staring at the north Indian g...
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Melting pot of cultures
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Mysore combines with both old new cultures and trying to digest it. While there is big metropolis Bangalore just at a distance of 2/3 hours which influences it dominance, Mysore is struggling hard to maintain the old traditions. In the process it is question of survival of the fittest and fittest is a...
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Watching the World go by
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Mysore - the place I was born and spent every summer in till I was 15. My grandparents lived there.Then as happens, when one hit 16, it was college, other interests and we'd pack my mother off to go and visit (Mysore) while we took care of dad. I have not been back to Mysore since 1986, that was the year my bro...
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A Road Back in Time
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I fondly remember travelling by road from Bangalore to Mysore in the seventies, as a kid in my grandmom's gray Ambassador. Very often ours would be the only car on the road for miles, whrring along under the canopy of trees. - Radhika Prasad, Deccan Herald.
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