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Karuna Trust
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It has been working with the National Insurance Company to put in place a community healthcare insurance scheme that enables the poor to have effective access to the government healthcare system in rural areas. Though public healthcare is free, it has remained out of reach of a number of the poor. Fa...
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Mar 4, 2006
by Vijendra Rao
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Mysore matters, does it?
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It sure does. This is the unmistakable message we get from a new website on Mysore – www.mysorematters.com. It is a welcome undertaking by a Mysore-based software company – Karthavya IT Solutions.
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Mar 1, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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Trees Act: Let’s act on it
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The retired forest officers association, notably its members – Mr. M B Srinivas and Mr B G Mugadur - have come up with a sensible suggestion to make the Trees Act really grow trees for us. Retired forest officers S & M suggest that architects and builders factor in provisions of the Trees Act in thei...
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Feb 26, 2006
by Dr. Kodira A. Kushalapa
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Price of honesty
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Sri Jayachamaraja College of Engineering (SJCE) faculty and students gathered at a condolence meeting (Nov.26, 2005), held in remembrance of a noted alumnus Shanmugam Manjunath, 27, who paid the ultimate price for his honesty and uprightness in the discharge of his duty, as an IOC official in UP....
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Tiger ‘darshan’
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Our tourism people make much of tigers in Bandipur and Nagarahole. The official hype is that these forest reserves account for at least 150 tigers. If true, this compares well with the Kanha national park in MP, according to ‘The Hindu’. But then the tourist dept. claims don’t seem to be backed by the i...
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Leisure and hobbies
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Being an Amateur Radio Operator (HAM), listener of the shortwave bands on the radio (SWL and BC Dxer) and sports enthusiast over the years, I really find appaling at the state of leisure and pastime activities of the youth of today. They really do not have time for any leisure. It is studies - projects -...
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Mysore sports on the web
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I am no sports buff, but did you know, Mr Dinakar, that we have a site on Mysore sports? This is the kind of info. I believe, would interest everyone. And the first I read about www.mysoresports.com was yesterday, as a passing reference in a news item about an award-winning picture of a ‘ku...
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A click-on ‘Abhisheka’ to Saint Bahubali
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Sajay, a Mysore IT professional with passion for animation has come up with an item that should interest Jains and other Bahubali devotees. He calls it ‘Virtual Abhisheka’. Sanjay’s creation enables surfers to ‘perform’, at the click of a PC mouse, an ‘abhisheka’ to the image of Bhagavan Gomateshw...
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Infosys Mysore agenda
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It is Infosys policy to provide mass transport system and it has held discussions with KSRTC and other agencies, said Infosys senior vice-president Mr Ramadas Kamath. (Presumably, he is talking about mass transport of the comany staff to Infosys campus.)
Speaking of the company plans at...
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Mysore hotels on the web
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Fellow blogger and editor of ‘In & Around Mysore’ magazine Mr Suresh Yerapathi put me wise on www.hotelsinmysore.com., by way of an e-mail alert on this hotels website. I wanted to phone him and say, “Come now, Mr Yerapathi, tell me something new”. I didn’t know this was new and that no one h...
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Jan 26, 2006
by Suresh Yerapathi
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A message to Mysore Rotarians
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Conducting eye-camps is fine, but we could do with some ‘eye-opener” camps. This was his plea to Rotarians. It came from the national human rights commission member Mr Shivraj V Patil in his inaugural address at a recent district conference of Rotarians in Mysore. For someone who hasn...
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Shouldn’t our media do better?
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Our social activists (ACICM, MGP) get quite an amount of valuable space in the local press! No verification of the authenticity of the claims made, no follow up, no backgrounder. To cite an example, the reaction (to an ACICM statement in SOM) of Capt. Anup Murthy on the Mandakalli airpo...
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Jan 19, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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A Mysorean family in Atlanta
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Valli Sundaram, a programmer with IBM, goes to the movies dressed in a fine silk sari. Much like a Saturday evening in her hometown of Mysore. Her family snack on samosas and watch Tamil films at a cineplex in Norcross. Though Valli does not drape 6 meters of silk to work, a pottu and gold bangles a...
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A doctorate for $500
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Vice-chancellor Prof. J shashidhar Prasad is reported to have told the media that there are atleast wo Mysore University faculty members who ‘bought’ post-doctoral degree from some fancy sounding foreign university with a contribution of $500. This degree wouldn't help them get a...
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Jan 17, 2006
by Capt. Anup Murthy
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My Bandipur visits
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I had occasion to stay at two places during my Bandipur visits in 2005. In February last, my mom and I stayed at the Bandipur Safari Lodge, run by Jungle Lodges & Resorts. I was impressed by the excellent customer service, the rooms and the tasty food. They organized Safari and trekking..The fores...
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Jan 10, 2006
by Suresh Yerapathi
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Lions at the Regional Meet
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Child welfare was the theme declared at the Lions regional meet held over the weekend in Mysore. Nearly 1,000 delegates from Mysore, Mandya and Charmarajanagar districts participated. President of the Bharthiya Vidya Bhavan, Mr Mathoor Krishnamurthy, who was the chief gue...
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Jan 9, 2006
by Ln. T V Raghottam Rao
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The year-end families’ night out
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New Year eve celebrations in 2005 were different from those I have seen in 45 years in Mysore. No late-night revelry, not much of ‘hungama’ on the streets, thanks to proper ‘bandobast’ and proactive steps taken by the police commissioner to maintain public order. The atmosphere was conduciv...
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Jan 1, 2006
by Raghottam Rao
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Girish brings a chess gold to Mysore
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Eight year old Girish A Kaushik is the Asian chess champ (under eight). He emerged the winner, playing nine rounds, among contestants drawn from 15 countries besides India. Karnataka hasn’t had such a chess win before, from someone so young. The Asian championships were held in New De...
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'Catalyst', for networking NGOs
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I had occasion to read at random text of ‘Catalyst’, a magazine to be released at the coming NRIs meet in Hyderabad. It is a print initiative, by a New York-based NRI, Dr Srinivasa Rao, and Dr Bhamy Shenoy (who doesn’t know him in Mysore?), to network NGOs working in/for India. Dr Rao reckons that in US al...
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Dec 21, 2005
by Suresh Yerapathi
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Can’t wait to make Mysore home
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Gurgaon-based Prem Subramaniam would like to shift residence to Mysore. Not quite within the city, where, he says, there seems too much speculative activity in real estate. (Is that so, Mr Nagakumar?) He is looking for a place at least 25 km out of town. He has identified some sites on Nagarhole Rd. an...
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Dec 14, 2005
by Prem Subramaniam
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Online tuition
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Weakness of US school students in subjects such as math and physics proved a boon for our teachers in India. Nimi Kurian, of The Hindu, explains how some computer companies have devised programmes for e-tutoring classes. The companies employ full-time and part-time teachers for the purpose. Here...
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LPG- driven Cars
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The use of LPG cylinders to fuel cars and other vehicles has been declared illegal and the ban would be lifted only after authorised gas refill centres come up in Mysore, according to Food and Civil Supplies deputy director, S E Mahadevappa (March 15, 2005). He hasn't, however, indicated when this co...
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Tipu’s missiles-launch site
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Karnataka archaeology department is reported to have identified a rocket/missiles launch site that Tipu Sultan had built on the ramparts of his Srirangapatna fort. The place is now a stink of a courtyard, plastered with cow-dung cake and human urine stain, according to a report in The Hindu (Dec.6...
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Mustafa adds colour in their lives
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The visually impaired may not see anything other than black. But they have imagination to perceive colours, says Mustafa Khan. He has trained a group of blind students in crayon-drawing. The students from CSI Victoria School use a specially designed crayon-holder that helps them identify blue, o...
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Pratham initiative in Mysore
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Among the many intangibles in the field of education is cost-benefit equation pertaining to the impact of public spending on primary education. We are generally unaware of the co-relation between money spent on schools and the quality of learning our students get. Budgeting for public schooling...
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Mysore manuscripts search
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Mr B K Ranganath, a reputed Kannada publisher, is coordinating the task of codifying manuscripts of heritage value held in private collections of people in Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts. The exercise is part of a nationwide effort by the government sponsored National Manuscripts Mission...
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Mysore Anjuman
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It was, presumably, the first such Id Milan, organized on Sunday by Anjuman-e-Hadeeqatul Adab. The elite of Mysore was invited to this harmony meeting. Dr. K Javeed Nayeem, who conducted the function, appealed to the guests to send in their feedback on the exercise.
The Anjuman is a literary foru...
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Cash in on wasteland, Grow jatropha
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Mysore-based Labland Biotechs plans to promote Jatropha cultivation in a big way. Oil extract of its seed fetches Rs.4,500 a tonne, according to the company MD Sudheer Shetty. The Mysore company has signed a deal to supply Jatropha seeds to D1 Oils, a bio-diesel firm in UK. It refines jatropha crude...
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Hope
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Dear Friends. Greetings and good wishes from Rotary Mysore Midtown,Mysore. Wel like to bring to your kind notice that Rotary Mysore Midtown Adventure Foundation in association with International Academy of Mountaineering and Allied Sports has done various projects, which is an eye opener for t...
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Archery, a Rotary initiative
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I should ask this when I meet Deepak, ‘why archery?’; How did they get the idea ? Anyway, as ‘The Hindu’ says, when Rotary Mysore Midtown Adventure Foundation and International Academy of Mountaineering and Allied Sports organised an orientation session at Mysore Public School on Children’s Day o...
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Nov 16, 2005
by Deepak Solanki
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