Connoisseurs of Art Come to Kalamandira

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'Life and Death' art work created by the students of city's Ravi Verma School of Art.
‘Life and Death’ art work created by the students of city’s Ravi Verma School of Art.

by S.N. Venkatnag Sobers

Mysore is known for its rich culture and heritage. Since decades, Mysoreans have been patronising arts of different kinds. Be it dramatics, painting, craft, music or any other fine art form, people continue to support and celebrate the artists’ creativity.

This year, Dasara Sub-Committee has given an opportunity for budding artists and professionals to display their art work at the art exhibition organised by Dasara Fine Arts and Handicrafts Sub-Committee at Kalamandira premises on Hunsur Road.

The exhibition, which was inaugurated yesterday, has already become a hit among Mysoreans and tourists. Being the centre of cultural activities, Kalamandira has been attracting a lot of visitors who have been mesmerised with the display art works. This apart, for the first time visitors to the art expo have been given a chance to the express their view through art on the 500 ft canvas which is placed outside Kalamandira building. People of all ages were seen stroking the brush on the giant canvas to express their views.

“This year the art exhibition has been of a different kind and has been organised on a larger scale. With the involvement of general public we are trying to promote the creative work of artists who have come out with some of the best art works,” said Dasara Fine Arts and Handicrafts Sub-Committee President Badal Nanjundaswamy.

Jumboo Savari: Just as one climb’s the steps of Kalamandira, he/she will get to see a unique art work created by Badal Nanjundaswamy titled ‘Jumboo Savari’, an applied art in which three cars have been placed on top of each other. There is also an art work titled ‘Life and Death’ created by students of Ravi Verma School of Art. Speaking to SOM, Arun, lecturer, Ravi Verma School of Art, said that the art work ‘Life and Death’ depicted the life which is colourful and full of activity and the other part is the life after death where the activity stops.

The art expo at Suchitra Art Gallery in Kalamandira has variety of works ranging from sculptures, hand embroidery, painting, wood inlay, photographs and others which are treat to watch. It will be open to public from 10 am to 9 pm till Oct.4.

This is for the first time that Dasara Sub-Committee has invited all the art schools in Mysore to be a part of the art expo. Speaking to Star of Mysore, V.A. Deshpande, Dean, CAVA, said that the idea of involving art schools was initiated by the Sub-Committee to provide an opportunity for students to display their art works.

“This will also provide an opportunity for the people to know about the works being done by the art school and their level of excellence. Both art and craft are two faces of the same coin. This is the reason that the Sub-Committee has involved handicrafts in the exhibition,” said Deshpande.

Students from CAVA, Ravi Verma School of Arts, Sri Kalanikethana School of Art and Vyjayanthi School of Art, all from city, are participating in this year’s Dasara art expo. With students being given a platform to display their art work, it is sure to attract more enthusiasts towards fine arts and craft.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / Friday  , September 26th,  2014

CFTRI Open Day begins

Education, Science & Technology

Public, including students throng the venue

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Mysore :

The two-day Open Day at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) in city began morning with a large number of the public, including students of various schools and colleges of the city thronging the venue.

The students who visited the venue, got a first-hand information about the various innovations at the Institute.

The Open Day is being held as part of the Foundation Day of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which was inaugurated by Suttur Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji.

As part of the Foundation Day, CFTRI is keeping its doors open for the public by holding “Open Days” today and tomorrow.

Public including students from various schools and colleges in city thronged the venue to have a glimpse of the Research and Technology Development being undertaken in the areas of Food Science & Technology and Food Processing at the institute.

Special displays showing the research and development work done at CFTRI as well as some machineries developed by the Institute were demonstrated to the students.

Among the machineries which were demonstrated to the public are Dosa and Chapathi making machine, Pani Poori sheeting and cutting machine, spouted bed roaster, popcorn making machine, glass blowing and Lemon Cutting machines.

Departments of Fermentation Technology and Bioengineering, Protein Chemistry and Technology, Plant Cell Biotechnology, Food Microbiology and others had displayed their products and held demonstrations to students make them understand easily.

CFTRI is open for the public on the Open Day from 11.30 am to 4 pm today and will be open for all from 9.30 am to 4 pm tomorrow.

Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, Director, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore, who presided over the function said that the CSIR is the largest research and development organisation and the CFTRI, which is under its umbrella, is rendering yeomen service to the nation by establishing robust basic research in Food Technology, developing advanced food processing systems and designing innovations of utility to the masses.

“CSIR aims to provide industrial competitiveness, social welfare, strong base for strategic sectors and advancement of fundamental knowledge, besides focussing on the development of technologies beneficial to farmers, growers and to the society,” he said and added that the Indian Food Processing Sector was the fastest growing sector in the country with registered food processing units contributing 12.3% of the nation’s employment.

Rajasekharan said that the country was still fighting the challenges of malnutrition and impaired food security among others.

He said that CSIR-CFTRI had developed over the years in technologies and innovations to be of support to the food processing industry and added that the technologies of CFTRI had answered the problems of fruit and vegetable losses. He said that the teams at CFTRI were ready with end to end processing solutions, right from the planting stage.

Rajasekharan said that though the teams had diversified strengths, their mission is to create all the necessary technologies and innovations for food secure and nutrition secure nation.

A memorandum of Understanding was also signed between CSIR-CFTRI and Palakkad Coconut Producer Company Limited, Kerala.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Friday  , September 26th,  2014

Down the memory lane : R. K. Narayan and weighty school bag

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Education

2006 Bill in Rajya Sabha still pending or shelved?

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by K. Vijaya Kumar, Former Jt. Director of Information & Publicity

The school bag debate has come to a forefront due to Mysore’s NGO ‘Pratham’ and A.J. Stationery of Ashvini Ranjan taking up a study covering about 3,000 students which has revealed that weight of their school bags varies from 8 kg to 4.5 kg. Hence, it is reported, that child right activists want to move High Court to bring a law to reduce the weight (10% of the total weight of the student). But, before this they met recently Education Minister Kimmane Ratnakar in Mysore who has assured them that a Pilot study/scheme will be undertaken in CM’s Varuna Assembly Constituency and State Government will take appropriate action in this regard and to wait for the outcome.

RKN and School Bag

This takes my memory back when our R.K. Narayan (RKN), the famous writer, was nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1986, nearly 30 years ago, who in his debut (and ONLY) speech raising weighty school bag issue made a fervent plea for reducing the inevitable “daily burden” of children. He observed their school bags weighing over five kg made many children “hang their arms forward like Chimpanzees and like a pack-mule.” He even went to the extent of pleading “abolition of school bag” as a National Policy by an ordinance if necessary.

When I met RKN once in Mysore after this Session, he told me that he will be happy to see the day when children walking straight without burden on their back and be satisfied for being in Rajya Sabha.

“Wisdom to be the end of learning”

Expressing his distress over the Education System that did not leave the children “any room to play or dream,” (The same he had expressed in his very early book Swami and Friends) his was a passionate criticism of the system wherein weighty school bags bends children back rather than exciting their creative minds of imagination. His longer vision on Education was “Wisdom to be the end of learning.”

Learning without burden

This only issue raised by RKN during his six years tenure in Rajya Sabha (1986-1992) led to a National Debate leading newspapers of the country highlighting his plea in the RS. Public opinion and parents’ awareness resulted in the formation of a Committee by the Central Govt. headed by a known Educationalist Prof. Yashpal, to recommend changes in the School Education System. The report of the Committee ‘Learning without Burden’ stated that young children should not be compelled to carry heavy bags to schools.

It is unfortunate that a Bill known as Children School Bags (Limitation on Weight) Bill 2006, introduced in Rajya Sabha was later shelved. If RKN were to be alive (he died in May 2001) he would have really felt sad to know the fate of this Bill.

Thanks to Pratham and A.J. Stationery

The recent study undertaken by Pratham and A.J. Stationery of Mysore not only has brought the issue to forefront again but also gives some solace to the soul of RKN. It is heartening to note that People’s Legal Forum has taken up this cause with experts favouring a legislation on the lines of the Bill in Rajya Sabha. Former VC of Kuvempu University Prof. P. Venkataramaiah is also associated in this endeavour. Viren Ranjan (son of Ashvini Ranjan) of A.J. Stationery who was part of the study has pointed out that Pratham Mysore had Indianised the ‘Loose Leaf Concept’ practiced world wide. Under this concept, students only need to take loose sheets to school and bring it home and file them.

What a great relief, if introduced, will it be to students and their mothers particularly who carry bags of their children (in the Apartments) till the Bus point ! Myself a daily witness to this plight.

[SOM had published an editorial titled ‘Burden off the back’ in its issue on Sept. 11, 2014]

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source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / Thursday  , September 25th,  2014

NIE goes on Air

Education, Records, All, Science & Technology

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Mysore :

One of city’s premier engineering college, National Institute of Engineering (NIE) has got yet another feather in its cap with the launch of an online campus radio. The radio, which is the brainchild of nine students, has been launched to socialize and entertain the NIE family.

The team consists of H.K. Anirudh, Karthik S. Rao, N. Pradeep, P.D. Divakar, B.L. Abhishek, M.S. Anusha, Anushree Anil, N.K. Amrutha and H.S. Anusha.

Speaking to SOM, the NIE team shared about the birth of NIE AIR thus: “During various events which took place in the college we faced communication problems. We had to spend too much on calls and SMS to intimate students about meetings and discussions. The message did not reach the masses; hence it was unfair for those who were interested. We also lacked proper communication between seniors and juniors.”

“We are glad that many of our students are being placed in good companies with good packages but unfortunately their experiences and achievements are not being shared with others. The information about internship opportunities, scholarships, sports and placements was not being conveyed properly. Considering all these problems we, the team of 9 came up with this solution,” they added.

“On a boring day when we were hanging out at the coffee shop we felt that we needed a change of some kind from this regular schedule. That was when we came up with a small idea of setting up a ham station in our campus, which then morphed into a live audio streaming internet radio. Now, with this new concept we realised we could provide a solution to some of the problems that our students faced.”

NIE-AIR is a campus community radio which entertains its listeners by the constant streaming of songs and providing them information regarding various events, the cultural fests, internships, placements and also the various activities and news about Mysore, maintaining the balance between the knowledge and Entertainment.

NIE-AIR runs from 8 am to 8 pm everyday keeping its listeners constantly updated by switching between knowledge based announcements and entertainment at regular intervals.

The day begins with a small playlist of pleasant songs. It is then followed by few of the important announcements during breaks. The list of songs once again continues to stream after these announcements providing the entertainment to students.

The major plus point in implementing this method of radio is they are not required to have any kind of licencing from the broadband or any of the different modulation stations. They make use of the website www.nieair.in that they created solely for this purpose and stream the songs and announcements live from a single source of point to which the people can tune in to avail the various facilities provided by it.

The students have expressed their gratitude to NIE which extends a helping hand in their ventures and guides them to become successful entrepreneurs. They hope that this community radio will continue to remain a success in future also.

Visit www.nieair.in for online campus radio

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News  / Thursday , September 25th,  2014

Stamp to be released for 110th anniversary of Hudson Memorial Church

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Historical Links, Pre-Independence

A stamp will be released on Sunday to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Hudson Memorial Church, a Kannada Protestant Christian Church and a major landmark in the city. M.S. Ramanujan, Chief Post Master General, Karnataka Circle, will release the stamp.

Speaking to presspersons on Friday about the event, S. William Jones, Presbyter in-charge, Hudson Memorial Church, said the programme will commence with a special worship service, followed by a procession by the Church congregation members along with schoolbands, from Hudson Memorial Church to Hudson Community Centre on Mission Road. On the occasion, a website www.hudsonmemorialchurch.com will also be launched.

The Church will hold various competitions including a painting exhibition, choreography, Ikebana competitions for women on Saturday. Scholarships and awards to meritorious students would be given, Mr Jones said.

source:// www.thehindu.com  / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bangalore / by C. K. Suryanarayana / Bangalore – September 26th, 2014

Special cover on Royal Durbar of Srikanta Datta Wadiyar

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Historical Links, Pre-Independence, Leaders

Philately exhibition inaugurated

Pramoda Devi Wadiyar is seen releasing the Special Cover at Postal Training Centre (PTC) in Nazarbad this morning as (from left) Aindri Anurag, Postmaster General, South Karnataka Circle, Bangalore, M.S. Ramanujan, Chief Postmaster General, Karnataka Circle and N.S. Dwarkanath, President of Mysore Philatelists’ Association, look on.
Pramoda Devi Wadiyar is seen releasing the Special Cover at Postal Training Centre (PTC) in Nazarbad this morning as (from left) Aindri Anurag, Postmaster General, South Karnataka Circle, Bangalore, M.S. Ramanujan, Chief Postmaster General, Karnataka Circle and N.S. Dwarkanath, President of Mysore Philatelists’ Association, look on.

Mysore :

A Special Cover on Royal Durbar of late Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar was released by Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, wife of late Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar during the inauguration of Chamundipex-2014, the South Karnataka Regional Philately Exhibition held at the auditorium of the Postal Training Centre (PTC) at Nazarbad in city this morning.

The Special Cover depicts Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar ascending the Golden Throne in traditional attire amidst the announcement of the arrival of the King to the court.

The Special Cover, which was released today, is sponsored by Ln. S. Shivanna, advocate and Past District Governor and Zonal Chairperson, Dist 317A of Lions Club International.

M.S. Ramanujan, Chief Postmaster General, Karnataka Circle, released the Special Cover on Platinum Jubilee of Bewoor Building (Head Post Office building) in Nehru Circle at the same programme today.

The building is named after Gurunatha Venkatesha Bewoor, who was the first Director General of the Post and Telegraph Department during 1934.

Ramanujan also inaugurated the Philately Exhibition Chamundipex-2014, which began from today at PTC in Nazarbad .

There are 123 entries which are participating in the competition, in junior and senior categories apart from 27 exhibits of rare collections of old stamps and postal covers of various countries.

The expo, which is open to public from today from 10 am to 7 pm, will conclude on Sept. 26.

Aindri Anurag, Postmaster General, South Karnataka Circle, Bangalore, N.S. Dwarkanath, President of Mysore Philatelists’ Association and others were present.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News  / Tuesday  , September 24th,  2014

Myra launches book on ” Agri-Input Marketing in India ”

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Business & Economy, Education, Nature
Manoj Rajan (second from left), IFS, is seen releasing the book “Agri-input Marketing in India” at MYRA recently as (from left)Dr. Shalini Urs, Chairperson, MYRA School of Business, P.S. Vastrad, IAS, Commissioner, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ram Kaundinya, Professor of Strategy, MYRA School of Business, Dr. Venugopal Pingali, Professor of Marketing, XLRI and Dr. Rajiv Sinha, Dean, MYRA School of Business, look on.
Manoj Rajan (second from left), IFS, is seen releasing the book “Agri-input Marketing in India” at MYRA recently as (from left)Dr. Shalini Urs, Chairperson, MYRA School of Business, P.S. Vastrad, IAS, Commissioner, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ram Kaundinya, Professor of Strategy, MYRA School of Business, Dr. Venugopal Pingali, Professor of Marketing, XLRI and Dr. Rajiv Sinha, Dean, MYRA School of Business, look on.

Mysore :

The book “Agri-input Marketing in India,” authored by Dr. Venugopal Pingali, Professor of Marketing, XLRI and Ram Kaundinya, Professor of Strategy, MYRA School of Business and published by SAGE, was launched by MYRA School of Business on Sept. 19 at its Athena Auditorium in Yelwal.

Manoj Rajan, IFS, Additional Secretary (Market Reforms), Government of Karnataka, released the book in the presence of chief guest P.S. Vastrad, Commissioner, Department of Health and Family Welfare.

Manoj Rajan, in his address, highlighted the enormous stride made by the Karnataka Government in this sector of Agricultural marketing. Quoting the father of Green revolution, Dr. Swaminathan, he said agricultural development is defined by Monsoons and Market. While monsoon is not in our hands markets are. Hence, market reforms have played a key role in bringing about transformation, he opined.

Rashtriya e-Market Services Private Limited (ReMSL), a joint venture company of the Government of Karnataka and the NCDEX Spot Exchange Limited, has set up the online markets and that has been the game changer, he said and cited the example of how in the district of Tiptur, the online trading helped triple the price of copra increasing from Rs. 6,000 to 18,000 per quintal.

He spoke about Agricultural Marketing Reforms Committee set up by the Government to study all the aspects relating to the objectives of providing a barrier-free agricultural market system for the benefit of farmers and consumers and its report and recommendations along with a comprehensive road map and necessary interventions for undertaking the reforms in agricultural marketing in the State.

Having carefully considered the report and recommendations, the same has been adopted as Karnataka Agricultural Marketing Policy, 2013, he said adding the Government of Karnataka is embarking on an ambitious-reforms agenda for Agricultural Marketing through the implementation of this Policy.

He urged the young management students to consider the Agri-Business sector as a career option that is well paying, challenging as well as satisfying.

Vastrad spoke about the evolution of the Agri-Business sector and the government’s role in bringing about positive changes for the benefit of both farmers and consumers.

The authors of the book are two stalwarts with vast experience in both academia and industry. While Dr. Pingali Venugopal, Associate Director, XLRI, Centre for Global Management and Responsible Leadership, and Professor (Marketing), comes with more than three decades of significant research work in the Indian context, Ram Kaundinya, formerly Managing Director, Advanta India Ltd., and Chairman, Association of Biotech Led Enterprises – Agricultural Group (ABLE-AG), member of the Board of Directors of Axis Bank, comes with equal years of experience in the agrochemical & seed industries and banking sector. Ram Kaundinya also holds a faculty position and teaches Strategy, to the students of the MYRA School of Business.

According to the authors, the book is meant for policy-makers, managers and business students. However, the book makes for an easy and interesting read and is accessible to all concerned citizens. Its 220 pages draw on data to show the long distance that India has travelled since Independence. This book is a must read for ordinary citizens who realise that food security is at risk in the foreseeable future.

The programme began with invocation by MYRAcles Plavani and Kashish Vyas. Prof. Shalini R. Urs, Founder of MYRA, who welcomed, outlined the importance of agriculture sector. Prof. Rajiv Sinha, Dean, MYRA School of Business, proposed a vote of thanks.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News  / Tuesday  , September 24th,  2014

Diabetacare launches first centre in Mysore

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Sports

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Mysore :

Diabetacare, India’s largest specialised diabetes management organisation, recently launched its first centre in Mysore in partnership with Columbia Asia Hospital.

State Sangeeta Vidwan awardee Dr. R. Sathyanarayana inaugurated the centre at Columbia Asia hospital here.

This facility has been set up to provide clinically focussed technology-enabled management for diabetes patients with an aim to either delay or prevent complications such as Diabetes Eye disease leading to blindness, Diabetes Kidney damage requiring lifelong Dialysis and Foot complications because of uncontrolled sugars leading to leg ulcers and amputation.

Diabetacare is offering full set of comprehensive screening, consultations and monitoring at the centre. This includes first-to-market service, 24×7 remote dcare monitoring which enables disciplined self-management of diabetes with the help of a team of nutritionists, endocrinologists, diabetes educators and family members.

During the launch, Dr. Sathyanarayana said, “Most of the Indians are not aware that they are suffering from diabetes. This shows that there is an urgent need to create awareness on diabetes. This can be done only through specialised centres like Diabetacare, which can enable in creating the required awareness along with efficient management of the disease. I appreciate this initiative taken by Diabetacare to provide diabetes management and help put an end to sufferings for thousands.”

Dr. Viju Rajan, General Manager of Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysore said, “With India being the diabetes capital of the world, early and efficient diagnosis and management of the disease is the need of the hour.”

Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal, Founder & CEO, Diabetacare, also spoke.

To know more log on to http://www.diabetacare.com.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News  / Tuesday  , September 24th,  2014

CM to present State Sangeetha Vidwan Award tomorrow

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Records, All

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Mysore :

Noted Hindustani vocalist Pandit Indudhar Nirody has been selected for this year’s State Sangeetha Vidwan Award given during the Dasara Festivities.

The award will be presented to him by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah during the inauguration of Dasara cultural programmes at the Palace premises tomorrow at 6 pm.

Pt. Indudhar Nirody resides at # 222, Kumaravara, 1st Cross, Kamakshi Hospital Road, Saraswathipuram, Mysore. He can be contacted on Mob: 94806-29238.

Profile: Born on 11th July, 1935 at Puttur (Dakshina Kannada), Indudhar Nirody was initiated into Music at a young age by his father, Nirody Sunder Rao and had the preliminary lessons in Music from Gawai Shri Pitre Ramarao at Udupi. Later, on migration to Mumbai in 1951, he received training from Pandit Gurudatt Heblekar in Mumbai. At the same time he also came under the tutelage of stalwarts in Hindusthani Classical Music, Acharya SCR Bhat, Acharya KG Ginde, Pandit Dinkar Kaikini and Pandit Chidanand Nagarkar. He received intensive training under them for well over two decades.

It has been his good fortune that being one of the senior-most disciples of his mentors, he had the opportunity of giving vocal accompaniment to his Gurus in their concerts on most of the occasions and also had a very close association with them all those years. This has helped him to assimilate and imbibe some of the finest aspects of Raagadari Sangeet in his Music.

Nirody is a stickler to the tradition. However, he improvises his music with great imagination giving importance to the aesthetic contents of the Bandishes. His renderings are marked by transparent sincerity, embodied with appropriate Bolalaps, Behelaves, rhythmic Upazas and clear-cut Taans. He has performed at various centres in the country and received laudable appreciation from the connoisseurs.

In the year 1955, at the age of 20, he won the First prize in the All India Music competition conducted by the All India Radio and received the coveted prize at the hands of then the President of India, Dr. Babu Rajendra Prasad. He was conferred the award “Gaurava Prashathi” by the Karnataka Sangeeth Nrutya Academy, Government of Karnataka in the year 2005 in appreciation of the valuable contribution made by him in the field of Music. He also received the Mysore District Rajostava Prasasthi of Government of Karnataka for the year 2008. Apart from these, he has been honored by several other prestigious Institutions — Sawai Gandharva Vishwastha Samsthe, Kundgol, Gaana Bharati, Saptaswar Balaga, Swara Sankula, Sangeet Kalakar Mandali, Bangalore and others. He was also conferred the title of Sangeetha Kala Tapaswi by Sri Purandara Tyagarajara matthu Vaggeyakarara Aradhanosthava Samiti, Mysore in 2003.

He is a “Top” grade artiste of All India Radio and has been performing since 1955 in AIR and later in Dooradarshan as well.

He was a senior Executive in Life Insurance Corporation of India and retired from the services in the year 1995. Since then, he has been devoting his full time towards development of Music.

Pt. Nirody has embarked on the work of audio-recording all the compositions (about 1900) published by Pt.V.N.Bhatkhande (6 volumes) under the name Hindusthani Sangeeth Paddhati – Kramik Pustak Malika. This is getting completed soon and would be available for the benefit of music lovers.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News  / Tuesday  , September 24th,  2014

Pusthaka Dasara, a timely initiative of OF MyLISA

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Education
Prof. P. Venkataramaiah, former VC, donating books for MyLISA Book Dasara Exhibition to Dr. C.P. Ramasesh, Vice-President, MyLISA. Picture right shows Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda, former VC, donating books to M. Sunil Kumar and Dhruva Kumar, Members of MyLISA.
Prof. P. Venkataramaiah, former VC, donating books for MyLISA Book Dasara Exhibition to Dr. C.P. Ramasesh, Vice-President, MyLISA. Picture right shows Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda, former VC, donating books to M. Sunil Kumar and Dhruva Kumar, Members of MyLISA.

Mysore :

‘Pusthaka Dasara,’ an initiative of MyLISA to promote the use of books and reading habit, has a lot of relevance in the modern society. This unique programme aims to connect the books and their readers.

Commenting on this activity of MyLISA, Prof. P. Venkataramaiah, former Vice-Chancellor, Kuvempu University, said “it helps in making people develop interest in studying books belonging to varieties of topics. I hope MyLISA is capable of floating this programme in a very big way and take it forward.”

MyLISA had recently appealed the public of Mysore to donate the used books to ‘Book Dasara 2014.’ In response to this, MyLISA received donations from Prof. P. Venkataramaiah and Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda, former Vice-Chancellors from Kuvempu University, Dr. Tirumala Rao, family members of late Dr. Mihir Mahapatra, Udayanarayan and so on. A few institutions have also come forward to donate the books.

Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, Secretary, MyLISA, said “there has been an overwhelming response from the public to the call from MyLISA. Interesting books in subject areas such as Biographies, Chemistry, Commerce, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Food Science, General Knowledge, History, Management, Philosophy, Physics, Religion, Political Science, Science, Sociology, Fictions, Literature, etc., have been received by the donation.

He added that a significant amount of children books have also been donated by the public and a list of 900 plus books already received is hosted on the MyLISA website http://mylisamysore.weebly.com

MyLISA will distribute these books to the libraries of schools and colleges at no-cost basis through an exhibition to be organised in October 2014.

For more information and to join the book donation programme, contact Dr. M.V. Sunil, Coordinator on Mob: 9986439832 or Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, Secretary, MyLISA, Manasagangotri on Mob: 9741533380.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News  / Tuesday  , September 23rd,  2014