City’s renowned Wildlife Photographer S.Thippeswamy has been conferred Master ICS (MICS) award by the Image Colleague Society Institution, California, USA.
Thippeswamy can be contacted over Mob: 98454-96200.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> In Brief / September 26th, 2016
Moodbidri :
Imagine gorging on mulberries, durian and rambutans for lunch sitting amid trees and in the company of peacocks. Or sipping the juice of homegrown pineapples in the thick shade of giant Burmese bamboos. It may sound like the exotic tourist locales immortalised by Harry Belafonte’s foot-tapping numbers. But you need not go as far as the Caribbean for such a tropical paradise. Closer home in Moodbidri is a 200-acre farm owned by Dr Livingston C Soans.
Explore the farmhouse and you’ll find not just a variety of flora but also some esoteric patterns and pyramid-like structures. These are tools for healing techniques popularised by Dr Soans, 82, a much-feted botanist, water diviner and ancient healing expert.
These healing techniques or energy zones have been inspired by ancient civilizations like the Mayan, Sumerian, Aztec, Egyptian and even Indian. Some of the ancient structures like the Egyptian pyramid, native American energy wheel or Cretan Labyrinth are replicated here for energy rejuvenation.
Dr Soans, who began researching ancient healing techniques a few decades ago, says this is part of alternative drugless therapy. He has constructed two labyrinths — one based on a design in a French cathedral and the other based on one used by Greeks on the island of Crete.
“Modern options are highly commercial or difficult to follow in totality, but the ancient healing devices like the Medicine Wheel, Pyramid and Cretan Labyrinth and its French version offer healing techniques from within,” he says. Elaborating on how animals pick up special spots on the ground to curl up or how ancient temples are built in specified places where energies can be identified by the dowsing techniques, he says, “These devices help medicines hasten the healing process.”
The Moodbidri facility gives people access to these tools at a price, he says, adding that the Cretan Labyrinth has been set up in hospitals in the US and Europe.
The Cretan Labyrinth, something like a Mandala, is a circular layout of intricate pathways, that roughly take up a kilometre to reach the centre of the labyrinth, all of which is laid on 150 sq ft. “In Europe I found that patients, after regular treatment in hospitals, were advised to use the Cretan Labyrinth for better healing process,” he says.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Karnataka / by M Raghuram / September 25th, 2016
Bengaluru :
They had grown up together on the same campus. And when they returned to their alma mater, St. Germain High School, on Sunday, it was time to soak in memories through the day.
About 600-odd alumni turned up for the annual general meeting of the Old Boys’ Association of St. Germain High School, Promenade Road, Fraser Town.
The day started with a holy mass, followed by hoisting the school flag and singing the anthem. Resolutions were passed and a new alumni team constituted.
After hours of celebrations, the old boys concluded the day with a group photograph.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City News> Bangalore / TNN / September 26th, 2016
D.V. Gundappa, a prominent poet of Karnataka, had penned 60 Kannada poems in his book ‘Antahpura Geetegalu’ in 1950 after being mesmerised by the dexterous chisel of the stone sculptures at Belur.
After that poetic attempt, a book, ‘Belu-Halebeedu Shilpakala Saamrajya’, brought out by Kikkeri Publications, Bengaluru, tells tales through the photography of illustrator and photographer Pundalika Kalliganuru.
The pictures in the book are also enhanced with commentaries, verses, and hymns penned by Pramod Nallur and Kalliganuru.
The 400-page book, with around 2,000 pictures, is a compilation of Mr. Kalliganuru’s four years of painstaking effort.
Assisted by other photographers, such as Mahalingu, Deepu, M. Viswanath and Vipin Baliga, the work of the 10th century Hoysala sculptors of the Jakkanachari style comes through splendidly in the book.
“If you see the grandeur of Hoysala architecture you will know that sculptors created more than 1,500 Hoysala temples. Belur and Halebeedu were their signature works. I wanted to showcase them pictorially giving them a huge spread,” says Kalliganuru.
“Amongst the 5,000 pictures clicked in four years, I felt bad that 3,000 could not be accommodated. This speaks of the specifics of detailing in each stone sculpture of Belur and Halebdu,” he adds.
The assortment in the stone art made Kalliganuru present his pictures in 39 chapters with nearly 10 categorisations of the sculptures.
“The carvings are intensely soaked in their explicit details. The only way that I could mirror them was shoot them in both natural sun and in rain where they reflected their true poetry in stone,” says Kalliganuru.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by Ranjani Govind / Bengaluru – September 26th, 2016
Arizona, USA :
The Mayor of the City of Tempe, Arizona, USA, Mark W. Mitchell, has honoured the well-known Mysuru artist Ganjifa Raghupathi Bhat, a visiting artist at the local temple, by declaring September 16, 2016 as Sri Ganjifa Raghupathi Bhat Day in Tempe, Arizona.
This honour is for his two painting masterpieces of Hanumantha and Garuda, two Hindu mythological characters, for the temple in Sri Venkatakrishna Kshetra, Tempe, established by Sri Sri Sugunendra Theertha Swamiji, the 30th pontiff in the lineage of Puthige Matha, Udupi, India.
The proclamation of the Mayor says that his paintings are exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is also the first artist to revive the dying ancient Indian art of Ganjifa miniature painting and has done much acclaimed work in the field.
He is also known as a restorer of ancient, heritage paintings and buildings like temples and Palaces. His restoration work of walls and ornate pillars at the Mysore Palace was much appreciated by the connoisseurs and qualified experts.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / September 19th, 2016