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US Envoy awestruck by Palace
Mysuru :
US Ambassador to India Richard Verma, who arrived in city yesterday to inaugurate the renovated building of Oriental Research Institute (ORI), visited the Amba Vilas Palace, popularly known as Mysore Palace, in city this morning.
On his arrival, he visited the residence of late Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar to meet Pramoda Devi Wadiyar and had a brief chat over a cup of tea.
Later, Richard Verma visited the Private Durbar Hall, ornate Kalyana Mantap and other prominent sections inside the Mysore Palace.
He expressed his happiness over the maintenance of the Mysore Palace, the gold leafing works and the recently introduced Braille book facility.
Verma told the Palace Board officials accompanying him that he would spend more time at the Palace during his next visit to Mysuru.
Earlier, Mysore Palace Board Deputy Director T.S. Subramanya welcomed Richard Verma with the traditional Mysuru Peta and a shawl.
During his Palace visit, Richard was accompanied by his brother-in-law Bala Murthy, President, i4 Now Solutions, USA and Co-ordinator Ariel H. Pollock.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Wednesday – April 01st, 2015
A ride of a lifetime
On April 2, T.N. Suresh Kumar achieved what some of us can only dream of.
The senior scientist of ISRO’s Master Control Facility in Hassan, took a ride in a zero-gravity flight from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow. This was a fulfilment of his long-cherished dream, a step up for his last year’s feat, when he became the first Indian to visit the stratosphere — the second layer of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Then, he had made it to an altitude of 17,100 metres from the Sokol Airbase near Nizhny Novgorod in Russia.
This time, he spent $ 5,400 for the flight, covering an altitude of around 8,500 m.
Mr. Suresh Kumar, who has travelled to 114 countries, told The Hindu over the phone: “I took the Indian flag and my mother’s photo for the flight as it was a memorable event in my life. I was one among 15 members from different countries.
We took the flight after completing medical fitness tests.
Only those who are fit physically and understand the instructions given at the training centre can take the flight.”
He lived with the passion to take the flight after he missed a chance to be part of ISRO’s team to visit space in 1986.
The visit was cancelled following the explosion of space shuttle Challenger.
He will return to India on April 18.
Mr. Suresh Kumar’s wife, Geetha, is also a scientist at the MCF.
They save a major portion of their salary for travel.
Geetha has also visited more than 90 countries.
Their daughter, Raksha, has visited more than 45 countries.
His family had accompanied him to Moscow.
While Geetha and Raksha have returned to India, Mr. Suresh Kumar continued on his visit to central Asia.
“We are budget-travellers. We book tickets in advance and carry ready-to-eat food to reduce expenditure,” he said.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Karnataka / by Satish G. T / Hassan – April 05th, 2015
Star this week : Ranji Champ : H.S. Sharath
Cricket is a very popular game in our country and after the exploits of the Indian team which has been doing well in the International scene, many youngsters have taken up cricket as their career. Mysuru also has its share of producing talented cricketers who have gone on to represent the country. On these lines is Mandya-born speedster H.S. Sharath who recently was part of the triumphant Karnataka team which won the Ranji Trophy for the second year in succession. Karnataka won the Ranji title with a innings and 217-runs win over Tamil Nadu at the Wankhede Stadium at Mumbai on Thursday. Sharath played his role with figures of 1/17 & 1/77 against Tamil Nadu and helped his team retain the coveted Ranji Trophy. He is our ‘Star This Week.’
Sharath, a right-hand medim-pacer and right-hand batsman, combined well with skipper R. Vinay Kumar, A. Mithun and S. Aravind to bowl out Tamil Nadu for a low first innings score of 134. He returned with figures of 15-6-17-1 in the first innings and in the second innings had figures of 20-4-77-1. He played three Ranji Trophy games for Karnataka this season and with four wickets, is an important member in the Karnataka team and has played his part in his team’s eighth Ranji title triumph.
Sharath came into the limelight when he won ‘Man of the Match’ award with his excellent eight wicket haul against Mumbai (five for 57 & three for 12) at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in December 2013, which helped Karnataka to score a historic win in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group ‘A’ tie against Mumbai at home after 22 years.
Sharath comes from a modest background, he started his cricket in Mandya seven years ago. He joined Vidyaranya Cricket Club and excelled in the KSCA Mysore Zonal league.
Helped and guided by his coach Mahadev, Sharath learnt the finer aspects of fast bowling and made his Ranji debut against UP at Meerut in November 2012.
He emerged as the highest wicket taker for Karnataka in 2013 with 24 wickets from seven matches. With 68 wickets already in Ranji trophy in 21 matches, Sharath is one of the main-stay in Karnataka’s battery of fast bowlers.
Sharath owes a lot to his father Shivalingaiah, who has sacrificed a lot for molding him into a fine cricketer. Helped by his Club Secretary Nagesh and KSCA Mysuru Zone, Sharath aims to do well in the days to come. Presently employed with State Bank of Mysuru, Bengaluru, he visits MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai for a three month period and trains under the legendary Australian fast bowler Glen McGrath.
The 6 foot 3 inch speedster and 21-year-old Sharath has the talent in him to go to the next higher grade.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / March 15th, 2015
‘RSN Memorial Award’ for Freedom Fighter
Ramashesh and Sanjhi Artist Huseni
Mysuru :
Freedom fighter M.R. Ramashesh and Sanjhi Artist S.F. Huseni were conferred with ‘RSN Memorial Award’ at a programme organised by R.S. Naidu Art and Cultural Welfare Trust in memory of freedom fighter R.S. Naidu at Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha in city recently.
Speaking after inaugurating the programme, Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) Chairperson Rehana Banu said, “Many artists across the country have contributed in their respective fields despite lack of encouragement and recognition. They should be lauded for their commitment and passion. We should encourage the artists through felicitation programmes.”
After the award function, Indu Shekhar and Troupe presented a musical programme.
Renowned artists of Mysuru and Bengaluru sang the old film songs sung by P.B. Sreenivas, S.P. Balasubramanyam, P. Susheela, S. Janaki and others. They even sang the songs from the movies of Dr. Rajkumar, Dr. Vishnuvardhan and Puttanna Kanagal.
The following songs were sung on the occasion: ‘Hindusthanu endu mareyada…’ from the movie Amrutha Ghalige, ‘Snehada kadalalli…’, ‘Aseya bhava olavina jeeva’, ‘Karunada thayi’, ‘Haadu haleyadaadarenu’, ‘Jeeva veene needu midithada sangeetha’, which made the audience to travel down the memory lane.
Mike Chandru compered the musical programme.
Singers including Indrani Anantharam, CFTRI Krishnamurthy, KEB Gangadhar, Srinivas Hemanth, Vijayanand, Joyce Peters, Anantharam, Kiran Kumar, Geethalakshmi Keni, Vijay Manasa and others took part in the function.
R.S. Naidu Art and Cultural Welfare Trust President P.Y. Venkatadri and Trustee M.K. Ramesh; K. Raghuram, Chairman, Brahmana Association; Mysuru Anand and Parthasarathy were present on the occasion.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Wednesday – March 04th, 2015
Two Indians win Grammy this year
India-based Ricky Kej’s collaborated album Winds Of Samsara won the Best New Age Album trophy at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards here.
Ricky teamed up with South African musician Wouter Kellerman for the album, which symbolises peace and harmony.
The website of the album describes the project as a “truly global effort”, which draws inspiration from two cultures. The music of the album blends in the creative influences of the cultures to generate a sound of calmness and positivity.
Other albums nominated in the category were Bhakti by Paul Avgerinos, Ritual by Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai, Symphony Live In Istanbul by Kitaro and In Love And Longing by Silvia Nakkach and David Darling.
Another Indian artist to make it big at the awards this year was Neela Vaswani. She won the trophy in the Best Children’s Album category for I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai). Vaswani narrated the audio version of the book.
However, sitarist and daughter of the late sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Anoushka, who was nominated for her album Traces of You in the Best World Music Album category lost out to Angelique Kidjo’s album Eve.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> International / IANS / Los Angeles, February 09th, 2015