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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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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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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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Tribute to a Mysore Rani
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In her early years Rani Vijayalakshmi Devi’s uncle was the king. She was witness to the making of Mysore into a model state of princely India. We are talking of the 1920s and the thirties. Mahatma Gandhi called the Mysore administration a Ram rajya. Lala Lajpat rai spoke with pride, of its administrat...
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Dec 29, 2006
by Bill Gates
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Old names of roads, etc.
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Roads, lakes and localities were named after some persons. Devaparthiva Road, Gita Road, Subbarayana Kere, Karanji Kere, Saraswathipuram, etc. We use these names without knowing the backgrounds. I can tell a bit about Subbarayana Kere. He was my grandmother's grandfather. Bhaga...
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Sep 23, 2017
by H.R.Bapu Satyanarayana
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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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Mysore dreams for 2006
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MyMysore dot com has been up and about for nearly an year now. And we can’t say we have accomplished much, by way of resolving issues or actualizing ideas that have been published on the web. For the record, the sum total of our achievement in this regard can be put in just two words – zero, ZERO.
Our site...
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Feb 8, 2006
by Dr. Mohamed Taher
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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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Dr. Galagali’s plan for Yadavgiri
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If Dr Devapriya Galagali of Yadavagiri has his way, he would turn his neibourhood pink during Tabebuia blossom time, in five years’ time. That is how long the tree would take for flowering, says Dr. K Javeed Nayeem. It was his Star of Mysore column that triggered Dr Galagali’s thoughts on havin...
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Where’s Handihalla in Mysore ?
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Near the AIR station . We have it from Mr K S Yadurajan that Handihalla became Yadavagiri when a posh colony came up in the locality, and the earlier inhabitants, pigs, disappeared. (Any thoughts, Dr. Bhamy Shenoy, of Yadavagiri ?) In his newspaper column, Mr Yadurajan refers to a meeting with...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Mysore I cherish
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I have vivid memories of trips to Kukkanahalli kere to immerse Ganesha when I was a student in Vanitha Sadana, the years spent playing cricket in the Gubbachchi school grounds and many others. Wish someone can write about the huli vesha, Kamana habba celebrations in the field where they built Siddha...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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 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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Mysore Excels in NSS Spirit
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It's the likes of Dr. B Nirmala who make a difference to life in Mysore. Dr. Nirmala, NSS officer, Maharani Science College, and her spirited students have registered over 2000 eye-donation pledges with the Mysore eye bank and research centre. Besides upholding the spirit of NSS Dr Nirmala's work i...
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