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Issues and Ideas Board: Private forum?
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Hello all:
For many months now, I have been a mute visitor here (one of the many, I am sure). Just found out that the two Is board has been cordoned off from public view with password protection. I am assuming this is in response to the recent spam attacks on this site. Would the forum administrator (G...
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Aug 26, 2006
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Mysore-Bangalore track-doubling
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Going by our CM's media statement (Aug.10) it appears that work on doubling the track, which has been on a start-pause mode for years, may hit the 'start' button agian, soon.
How soon? As early as Karnataka officials hold strategy meeting with railway officials; as soon as the state govt. makes a fi...
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Good work, Prof. Mishra
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A Museum Angadi, at which we can view/buy handicrafts and artefacts, has come up at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS), Wellington House. Its prime mover, Prof. P K Mishra of Anthropological Association, and IGRMS in charge here, Mr J Vijay Mohan, say the Angadi operates on not-fo...
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Aug 10, 2006
by Ramaprasad
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Blocked Blogs
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You may have problem accessing blogs in the last few days. Media reports that the blackout follows a telecom dept. directive to Internet Service Providers(ISP) to block access to blogs that are found to be instigating hatred in the wake of the Mumbai...
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Makkaji Chowka: an MGP initiative
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Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP), in association with the Institute of Engineers, has lined up a 'town-hall'-type meeting to further the debate on the Makkaji Chowka issue. Thought of highlighting the event for wider noticeablity, as Dr.Shenoy's initial announcement in th...
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Jul 11, 2006
by H.R.Bapu Satyanarayana
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District police blogs
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Police chiefs in three Karnataka districts have set up blogs that carry department news, crime reports and all police-related information that the authorities deem fit to be shared with the public. It is a single-window source of police info. for the media. Though the move doesn’t make their funct...
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Jul 3, 2006
by Vijendra Rao
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The Ooty Rd. realignment
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Sudhi, non-resident Mysorean who keeps tab on Mysore developments, sought comments from our online aviation guru on a Star of Mysore story relating to an AAI plea for realignment of the Ooty Rd. close to the airport. Though the issue has been raised and responded to in the captai...
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Jun 29, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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'Global warming is hot air'
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None ever suspected George Bush to be the most informed of American presidents. Here is one more evidence of his abject ignorance and tendency to shoot from his hip, Texas style. It explains the United States' intransigence to the Kyoto Declaration.
The article may be of particular intere...
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Hawkers' rights
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Jun 21, 2006
by H.R.Bapu Satyanarayana
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DTJ Darshan
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I don't intend this to be an account of Thursday's meeting that district minister D.T. Jaykumar had with us stakeholding citizens of Mysore on the central theme of safeguarding our interest. Newspapers have already reported it to varying degree of detail...
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Jun 17, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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From Bill Gates, to Kannada
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Hurray! MS Office will be soon available in Kannada. Just happened to read it, and thought it should warm the cockles of all Kannadigas, who are in the midst of celebration of Suvarna Sambhrama. Will be nice to hear mymysore members' immediate response to the spinoffs of this development. MS O...
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Get-together on 27Th May'06
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Hi,
Mr.Srinivas Rao from USA will be in Mysore end of this month,He has expressed to meet you all on 27TH May'06.We request you all to accept this as a personal invitation and do join us for a great evening.
The Venue: COSMOPOLITAN CLUB,Mysore.
Date: 27TH May'06.
The Time: 8 PM ne...
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Jun 12, 2006
by Srinivas Rao
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Vinod Maroli, so full of energy
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Talking energy is Vinod’s business. Well, Mr Maroli sell it as well. LPG . Inheriting the management of a cooking gas agency from his ex-serviceman father, young Vinod set out to diversify into products line – LPG storage tank, heating/cooling & power generation products, micro-turbine, lea...
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Jun 7, 2006
by prakash sharma
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Infosys recruits US graduates
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This summer, Infosys will train 300 graduates it recruited from American colleges. The new employees will complete a six-month course at the firm's training facility in Mysore, India. The recruits will then start full-time jobs in the company's offices in Texas, Arizona, Massachusetts, New Yor...
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Now a doc in our blog
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We have an aviator, a tech-talker, and a HAM enthusiast. Now a doctor joins the list of our theme bloggers. But then those familiar with his tea-talk in Star of Mysore know of Dr Javeed Nayeem’s flair for many things other than cardiology; know that he can be as eloquent in talking about city’s he...
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May 30, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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Globalize Maddur vada
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Maddur vada is known well beyond the geographical confines of Maddur in Karnataka's Cauvery belt. Those who have travelled on the Bangalore-Mysore train could not have failed to taste it. Like Mac-burger, vada lacks any trace of snobbery and is classless insofar as it is consumed with relish by pea...
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May 28, 2006
by Vijendra Rao
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Calling HAMs in Mysore
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Blogger Madhukar Konanur talks HAM, calls his bog - Mysore HAM- VU2MUD.
Says Madhukar, in his post: Mysore City is among the top 20 in India by the number of HAMs licenced from the city. But the level of activity is quite low compared to many other cities with lesser number of HAMs...
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Veto the poll with Rule 49’0
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Mr Raghavendra Puthraya has sent a mail conveying the following info. Which I find refreshingly subversive, in the context of a growing sense of frustration among voters on the candidate options (lack of) they have. Here, then, is Rule 49’0 -
"In a particular constitu...
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Public Private Partnership for promoting Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
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Your citizen Friendly Mysore Grahakara Parishat also known as Mysore Galata Parishat to this form members is taking an initiative to organize an expert group of people to generate ideas and data, provide timely feedback and monitor the progress of JNNURM. Some one on this forum had made a suggestio...
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May 8, 2006
by shankar prasaad
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Networking techies
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Today’s technology could (often will) be tomorrow’s nuisance, says Dr Srinivas T Rao, adding that the point of his blog – Rao’s Tech Talk – is to create connectivity among people who seek answers to questions on technology. And then he goes on to bombard us with questions - Does anyone really care for t...
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Projecting Mysore's tradition
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Hello,
I am C.K.Muralidharan, a free-lance sports journalist, based in Mysore. I and my partner who was very like-minded, Mr. Yashasvi Shankar a NRI based in US stared a website in 2000 called www.mysoresports.com, the only city based website on sports which projects the details of mysore sport...
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Apr 23, 2006
by Vijendra Rao
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Blogging on aviation
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I did not know much about blogging, read some blogs before, but never wrote one until Mr. GVK facilitated a blog page for me and linked it to mymysore.com and then I thought, what do write? I decided to write on my subject, aviation, and started out by writing articles that read like news reports or like a...
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Apr 16, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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Networking Mysore NGOs
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NGOs and other volunteer groups working in Mysore are not known to interact much with one another. Many of them have their niche; and are on their own trip. There has, perhaps, been no serious move to explore potentials of networking.
Some of us thought about this. And then Sanjay Ahuja, a Mysore-ba...
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Mysore NGO dot com
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It's a web forum that provides NGOs in Mysore an opportunity to make a connection with one another. Do look up/click on our earlier item, 'Networking Mysore NGOs'.
This is to announce a design revamp of the earlier NGOs site that posed some technical problems we couldn't handle. We fo...
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Never played villain
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Mrs. Uma Jagannath, from Pheonix, Ariz., e-mailed us NYT obituary that described Dr Raj Kumar as one of south India’s most popular movie stars with a legion of worshipful fans. Reproduced are a few details of his life for the uninformed: >Born Muthuraju Singanalluru Puttaswamayya, Mr.R...
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Churmuri’ makes waves
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My friend, Mr Krishna Prasad, in an e-mail alerted us to the fact that his baby topped the WordPress.com ‘hot blogs’ of the day, Wednesday, Apl.12. ‘Churmuri’s’ prolific reportage on Dr. Raj kumar’s demise made it the most accessed news blog for the day. At the time of writing I counted 11 items. ‘Chur...
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Two more blogs, from Mysore
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In the last few days I got mail alerting me to two new blogs, one by a journalist, Mr Krishna Prasad, and the other, hosted by a b-school professor, Dr. G Raghavan. A professor of finance at the SDM Institute of management, Prof.Raghavan, has put together in his blog a set of power point presentations on...
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Mymysore forum get-together
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Mr Prem Subramaniam has made a point that the usefulness of this forum would diminish, if it just becomes an alternate virtual Coffee House, for individuals to scatter ideas with no one to pick up the pieces. He has suggested five areas that will require the resources that can be generated within the e...
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Apr 10, 2006
by Vijendra Rao
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NRN’s retirement plans
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Come July (Infosys 25th anniversary month), Mr N R Naryanamurthy plans to step down to become non-executive chairman, functioning from an office where he can walk down from home, reports India Today (March 20, 2006).
Which office, Mr Murthy? Mysore, may we suggest? Wouldn’t it be nice, if...
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Let us get it right
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A few years back in Star of Mysore online I first read about the “Wadiyar” family, I thought it was just a typo. I have seen that “Wodeyar” name being massacred over and over again. Please refer this to some well known personalities in Mysore such as Prof. GTN or Sri TSS. I am&n...
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Mar 5, 2006
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