This can happen only in Mysore. And also the story can appear only in my favorite newspaper, the Star of Mysore. I don’t know when this story would be taken down and so let me reproduce it here.
KSRTC BUS PASSENGERS STRANDED IN FOREST, RECKLESS DRIVERS
Traumatic experiences of the victims of [...]
I have been reading Samsa again for a few months now. This Kannada playwright, who wrote six (published) plays on the history of Mysore has been a favorite of mine for long. I read KIRAM’s wonderful play, Nigikonda Samsa recently. Samsa’s nephew A. N. Subramanyam has a very insightful small book called Samsasmarane (Remembering Samsa).
Honestly, [...]
To,
Shri D. T. Jayakumar
Minister for Housing, Government of Karnataka, District-in-charge Minister, Mysore
Dear Shri Jayakumar,
Greetings from a warm, sunny Chicago. May I state at the outset that unlike many of our fellow countrymen, I am big admirer of politicians and their genuine desire to do something good for India within certain limitations. Sure, politicians are corrupt [...]
So the question of the day is simply: do we need a minister for history? Looks like it. If ever that job opens up in Karnataka, I will apply. Or run for that office.
‘Bhuta mantri‘ has a fantastic ring to it.
I love it.
Who wouldn’t want to be addressed as ‘manya bhuta mantrigale‘! As you all [...]
Speaking of Mahishurapuri, a quick comment.
Last week, I was reading A History of Indian Literature in English edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Of particular interest for me were two superb essays on R K Narayan (by Pankaj Mishra) and A K Ramanujan (by Mehrotra himself), the two major English writers from Mysore. As I read [...]
What is an act of remembering?
Memory is tricky business. It doesn’t have an autonomous existence of its own, outside of us, the people who choose to remember. So memory is not a passive thing, but an active construct and it requires us to act. Our act of remembering is a subjective act and does not [...]