Modern politics is mostly a 2.20 minute video wrapped in a 280-character tweet of a hollow “I’m-so-honoured-to-be-here” speech that can be delivered in any one of India’s 640 districts to …
In today’s Andolana, the Kannada broadsheet newspaper from Mysore, appears this small, single-column advertisement on its last page. A dignified portrait, not looking into the camera, writ with decency and …
Before he set sail to India and then onward to England, where he rose to become one of the greatest investigative reporters of the 20th century at The Sunday Times, the late, great Phillip Knightley worked at a weekend tabloid newspaper in his home-country, Australia. This, of course, was when there was still something called […]
The documentation of local culture in India is a vanishing art, especially in the English language. There are few go-to resources to get the real feel of the sights, sounds and smells of …
Ten minutes into my first walk of the year, at the heaven-sent but Maharaja-made Kukkarahalli Lake in Mysore, I bumped into Manmohan, an old friend of mine, younger than me …
While growing up in Mysore in the 1970s, my whole world revolved around wonderful Vontikoppal. Actually, it didn’t revolve much, my world was Vontikoppal. My mother Sharada had walked—yes, walked—from …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: On the day I left Gulbarga for good, upon completion of my studies and internship, I rode to the railway station from my room on my …
Ahalya Chari, the head of the Regional College of Education from 1967-70, passed away in Madras recently, at the age of 92. Here, Krishna Vattam, the longtime Mysore correspondent of …
VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes from Mysore: Recently, I was invited to be part of a group that is trying to raise funds for Pratham Mysore, the highly respected NGO that has …
At the all India institute of speech and hearing (AIISH) in Mysore, the mobile audio assessment lab (known to ordinary mortals as a sound proof bus) stands in a state …
Editorial in The Hindu on 17 April 1962, on Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, who passed away 50 years ago this week: “Dr Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya is no longer physically with us, but …
NARENDRA K. writes: I was all of 18 years and Meera was 20. Life had meandered on amidst the vicissitudes of destiny. “Anna” was no more and his absence both …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Today, shopping on a Sunday is synonymous with going to a slick mall or a supermarket where you can buy anything from shampoos to cellphones, from laptops …
This is a picture to both salute and to smile. The former first: the man in the middle of the frame, the veteran food scientist T.N. Ramachandra Rao, passed away …
MANISHA MODHA-PATEL writes from Ahmedabad: It was in the year 1980 that I first met her. I was 12 years old. Our family had just moved from Bombay to Mysore. …
No profession in India—not even journalism, perhaps—has plunged into the abyss of disrepute with the speed and determination of medicine. Across the country, doctors, once seen as saviours next only …
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: On 13 December 2009, The Picture Editor upstairs decided to set the shutter speed of the life’s camera of a venerable man to a metaphorical 1/125. On …
The world is an infinitely darker place when gems of the lustre of T.S. Satyan and his great friend H.Y. Sharada Prasad start shining no more. Sixty-one years ago, Satyan, …
Twenty-five years after they passed out of Marimallappa‘s High School in Mysore, the “10th B” batch of 1984—including one very, very famous Mysorean—walked down memory lane last Saturday, 29 August. …
B.S.NAGARAJ writes from New Delhi: Once upon a time, in the year of the lord 1975, as part of their Noorondu Ganesha (Ganesha 101) peregrination, two little boys ventured into …
MADHU GOPINATH RAO writes from New York City: August brings back fond memories. Memories of life when things were simple and black and white, a time when money was scarce …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: With computer-related work occupying more than 80% of jobs, at last count, one wonders what kind of jobs people were doing, before the advent of computers? What …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes from Bangalore: Basavanagudi and Malleshwaram are two of the oldest localities of Bangalore which are still in demand amongst those who seek houses to rent or to …
There is nothing, well, almost nothing like memories of the macho sound of an Ideal Jawa or Yezdi motorcycle with a “Made in Mysore” label plastered on it. At the …
RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: For the better part of the past month, one of the questions that has been bugging me is a food-related one: who made the first …
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