K.G. Subramanya Swamy was unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Mysore District Football Association (MDFA) during its Annual General Meeting held in city yesterday. L.Manjunath was elected as Hon. Secretary while G.R. Sanjay as the Hon. Treasurer.
The other Managing Committee members are: P. Anand (Royal FC), S. Ranganathan (Cosmos FC), Kumara Swamy (Rovers FC), Md. Shakeel Khan (Lucky XI), M.V. Ramesh (Durgambha FC). Governing Board members of KSFA: 1) Haj. Md. Rasheed Ahmed (LifeMember), M.R. Ganesh Singh (Challenge Union FC), P. Narasimha (Metro FC) and T. Puttaraj (Panther FC).
All the above candidates were elected unanimously for the year 2015-17.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / Monday – June 08th, 2015
City students performed exceedingly well in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class XII results that were announced on Monday with most institutes securing 100% pass percentage. Incidentally, the overall pass percentage in the state stood at 92.96%, higher than that of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, which stood at 87.84%.
The top score in the Science stream was achieved by Pranjal Pathak from Delhi Public School, Nacharam, with 98.6%, whereas in Commerce, the top scorer was P Amukta from P Obul Reddy School with 96.8%. Many students from Chirec Public School, Meridian School, Silver Oaks, Kennedy High School, etc., crossed the coveted 90% mark.
“Almost 32% students in our school have scored 90% and above. Although the papers were a little application-based this year, our students performed well,” said Iffat Ibrahim, principal of Chirec Public School in Kondapur.
According to students, the question paper for Maths, English and Chemistry were tougher this year. “The English and Chemistry papers were lengthier this time. However, I am glad I scored well in both the subjects,” said Yadavalli Susan, who scored 81 in Chemistry and 80 in English.
Among the high scorers in the Science stream were GS Satwik from P Obul Reddy School with 96.8%, Naila Fatima from Meridian School in Banjara Hills with 95.8%, Dhruvika Sahni from Chirec Public School with 95.8%, Arica Moirancthem from Kennedy High School with 94.6%, Yadavalli Susan from Silver Oaks with 92.5% and B Simren from Jubilee Hills Public School with 91.8%.
In the Commerce stream, Vishesh Agarwal from Meridian School with 96.4%, Mahitha Samyukta from Chirec Public School with 96% and Ankita Agarwal, Sharath Sonti and Utsav Badra from Delhi Public School with 95.8% were the top scorers. A total of 3,856 students from Telangana appeared for the exams conducted from March 2 to 26 this year. The pass percentage of girls in the state was higher than boys at 94.8% as compared to 90.93%.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hyderabad / TNN / May 26th, 2015
Mumbai-based model Sanea Sheikh on loving fashion shows and growing flowers in her garden.
Sana Sheikh
At Home
I love spending time at home as work usually involves travelling all the time. At home, I like to unwind with my three cats — Posh, Spanky and Momo — and dabble in a bit of gardening. I grow hibiscus, Chinese roses, mint and chillies. I can practically sit in my bed and watch television shows all day, especially my favourite, Game of Thrones. Travelling and photography are also my passions. Spending time with my family, especially my three sisters, rejuvenates me the most.
At work
During show season, it gets hectic; we have fittings, make-up sessions, rehearsals and shows. I try to step out of the venue as much as I can to get some fresh air. But I love fashion weeks because they’re one big, happy reunion. Between shows I’ll catch up with friends. Walking the ramp is like an adrenaline rush for me. Owning the ramp for a minute or two, with all eyes only on you, can give you quite a high. Plus, I get to look my very best all the time, thanks to different members of the fraternity who’re working on me.
A feature on the spaces and objects that define our work and home life through the selfie
source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Lifestyle> Fashion> Eye 2015 / Express News Service / New Delhi – May 31st, 2015
J Prasannakumar, a delivery executive at a telemarketing company, grew up in the neighbourhood of the Government Rajaji Hospital. During his many visits to the hospital, he noticed that there were people who were in need of dire help. Touched, he began helping them out in what ways he could. Initially, he would help them locate their wards but as he became more involved, his activities widened.
Today, the 28-year-old graduate in business economics and his two friends arrange blood for the needy, buy them food, counsel them and admit helpless elderly people to homes, among other things. His friends N N Ajmal Hussain, a BCA graduate and C Vinoth, an MCA degree holder, joined him seven years after he began helping out at the hospital. For the past three years, the three have been spending at least five hours in the hospital everyday. Ajmal, who is a website designer, Vinoth, who is preparing for bank exams and Prasannakumar find time between work to help out patients.
Recently, when the summer vacations were going on for colleges, the hospital faced a shortage of blood donors as most of the contributions to blood banks usually came from students. The three youngsters arranged blood for the patients, and their efforts were much appreciated.
“We arrange blood for those who need it urgently. Anybody we know who needs help inside the hospital premises will get our support. Many patients need food and money to buy medicines from outside. If we have money, we help them. Otherwise, we connect the needy and the donors. We usually ask the donors to help directly and avoid mediation. However, some prefer to do it through us as they do not have time to spare,” Ajmal said.
“We are not an NGO. We have not kept a name for the group. We are friends and do it purely for the satisfaction of helping someone in need,” he added.
The hospital deals with about 10, 000 outpatients and 3000 inpatients every day.
“They are favourites among people in the hospital. From arranging blood to helping the patients and their attenders, they do a lot on the premises,” said a senior doctor from the hospital.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Madurai / by Devanathan Veerappan, TNN / June 13th, 2015
Is it Albert Victor Road or Alur Venkat Rao Road? Whatever the name, there now is a proposal to rename this road as Tipu Sultan Palace Road.
The main road in Chamarajpet is in the midst of a renaming storm. While the BJP-Karnataka unit has opposed the proposal to rename the road again, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is now wondering when the road was renamed as Alur Venkat Rao Road in the first place.
It so happens that neither the BBMP nor the Department of Posts have any records that show when the road was named after Alur Venkat Rao.
Noted city historian Suresh Moona said that the road was popularly known as A.V. Road. “The initials A.V. stand for both Albert Victor and Alur Venkat Rao. The road was named after Prince of Wales Albert Victor to commemorate his visit to the city to inaugurate the Glass House in Lalbagh. It was probably renamed in the late 1960s and early 1970s when a number of roads that had Colonial names were rechristened,” he pointed out.
On Monday, a delegation from BJP, including MP P.C. Mohan, MLC Ashwathnarayan, city MLAs S. Suresh Kumar, B.N. Vijaykumar and Jagadeesh Kumar, submitted a memorandum to BBMP administrator T.M. Vijaybhaskar and urged him to drop the proposal to rename the road. Their contention was that renaming the road would be an “insult” to Alur Venkat Rao, who led the Karnataka unification movement.
Conceding that the BJP-led BBMP council that passed the resolution to rename the road had not followed the protocol, Mr. Suresh Kumar told The Hindu that the BBMP should examine all proposals closely before clearing them. “
N.R. Ramesh, former Ruling Party Leader who proposed the renaming, said that during the last meeting of the BBMP council, over 30 road renaming proposals were approved by the council. The proposal to rename the main road in Chamarajpet was not in the agenda initially. “It was proposed based on a letter submitted by a private organisation. The letter did not mention that the renaming was for the Alur Venkat Rao Road,” he said.
Who is Alur Venkat Rao?
Bengaluru: Alur Venkat Rao, who is known as Karnataka Kulapurohita, was the leading figure of the Karnataka unification movement. He was also an eminent historian, a dedicated writer and journalist. He made use of the press to achieve the cause of Karnataka. When he started editing and publishing the newspaper ‘Jaya Karnataka’, he declared in its very first edition that the sole aim of the newspaper was to strive for Karnataka’s statehood.
Protocol for renaming roads
Bengaluru: Every time a road or an area is renamed, questions are raised over the procedure and logic behind the process. Names can be mooted by anyone, either the public or the BBMP council. The proposal for renaming is then published in newspapers and objections are invited. On receiving objections, they are discussed in the council for approval. In the absence of a council, the administrator takes a decision. The approved resolution is moved to Urban Development Department, Government of Karnataka which renames places in the city, an official said. After this, an intimation about the same is sent to the Department of Posts.
Previous cases of controversy
S.K. Karim Khan Road: Indiranagar 100 ft Road was renamed after the Kannada folklorist S.K. Karim Khan in 2014, even though a resolution about the same was taken in 2006.
Narasimha Raju Road: Though a road in Palace Guttahalli was named after the actor, another road (from ISKCON to Mahalakshmi Layout Swimming Pool) was named after him.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru> by Chitra V. Raman / Bengaluru – June 02nd, 2015
1) Mysore style portrait painting of Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar seated on the Golden Throne based on the 2013 Khas Darbar. Artist: K.S. Shreehari, 2014. Size: 41×51 cms. Collection: Ramsons Kala Pratishtana, Mysore. 2) Portrait painting of Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar seated on the silver Bhadrasana. Artist: Manish Verma, 2015. Size: 37×51 cms. Gouache on paper. Collection: RKP, Mysore.
by R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana, Mysore
Peacock pavilion of the Mysore Palace is where the coronation of the new Scion of the Mysore Royal family is scheduled to be held tomorrow. In the hall adjacent to this pavilion is the portrait gallery that has on its walls the official portraits of several Wadiyar rulers along with their family members. It is here that one begins to realise the importance that a royal portrait played in private and public life of the nobility.
Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV
But it was also special events that were to be immortalised on canvas or photographed or painted. The Daly Memorial Hall of the Mythic Society in Bengaluru greets the visitor with a portrait officially commissioned of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV on the him being conferred the honour of Knight Grand Commander Star of India on January 1, 1907.
The oil on canvas portrait shows the king partly in profile. The Honour is pinned to a sash. The bejewelled necklace covering the neck of sherwani only adds to the richness of the attire. The fluted and feathered plume with a jewelled brooch holding it in place to the turban also adds to the portrait’s grandeur.
11-year-old Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV
Royal portraits have hidden sutras embedded in them that takes the viewer back in time. The Official Coronation portrait of the 11-year-old Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV is one such portrait.
This is a stylised photographic portrait and has several artfully placed emblems; the jacquard seat of the chair, the three-legged table with a curved triangular holder, a clock and some leather covered folders. The young prince is shown resting one hand on them while the other is on his hip. A Beagle stands motionless under the table.
Photographer Buranuddin of Mysore has used all possible elements that signify royalty in composing this photograph.
Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar
The autographed official photograph of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar to mark the Silver Jubilee of his coronation in 1927 shows the then King dressed sombrely resting one hand on the back of a chair. The single-row bejewelled necklace and the chain and fob in the upper coat pocket add a touch of elegance. Even the Mysore peta is unembellished. The photograph was printed in Germany on water-marked archival paper.
Chamaraja Wadiyar
Another painting at the Jaganmohan Palace is the coronation scene of Maharaja Chamaraja Wadiyar. The painting was created by the artist Venkata Subbu in 1868.
There is an official portrait of Chamaraja Wadiyar on being conferred with the Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1892. The above photograph reproduced here was ‘clicked’ by the famous Raja Deen Dayal of Hyderabad.
While the English royalty painters used pastoral themes their Indian counterparts used the very ‘Indianness’ of such public events of those days to display their virtuosity.
For instance, the 1927 Silver Jubilee of Nalwadi’s coronation has been commemorated with a beautiful portrait done by artist Keshavaiah; this masterpiece is on display at the Banquet Hall of the Vidhana Soudha. Interestingly, the advent of photography did not deal a death knell to the art of portrait paintings. Instead it led to another innovation – the painted photograph.
Jayachamaraja Wadiyar
By the time Jayachamaraja Wadiyar ascended the throne, both photography and painted photographs were very much in vogue. But such was the ingenuity of the Indian photographers that their photographs of the Royalty was a marriage of these several stylisations. Thus you have photographs of Jayachamaraja Wadiyar shown in what was supposed to be a candid form. At various times you had special photographs of Jayachamaraja Wadiyar ‘clicked’ by the then well-known City Studios like Star Studio, Palace Studio and Raj Studio. The variation was of course the painted photograph of Jayachamaraja Wadiyar by M.N. Murthy.
The photograph taken by the unknown photographer of Palace Studios of Jayachamaraja Wadiyar in 1940 to commemorate the king’s coronation has been replicated as a painted photograph by artist M.N. Murthy and is now in the RKP collection. But at no stage did photographs or painted photographs replace the portrait painter.
The tradition of painting historical events continues to this day. The last scion of the Royal House of Mysore, the late Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar along with his sisters and their husbands have been painted as several individual portraits by M. Ramanarsayya, the former Superintendent of Jaganmohan Palace.
Keeping the art of Painted Portraits alive
Ramsons Kala Pratishtana, in its efforts to keep alive the art of painted portraits, first commissioned artist K.S. Shreehari in 2014 to paint a classical portrait of Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar in the Mysore style (see pic. top right) based on photographs of 2013 Navaratri Khas Darbar.
This was followed by commissioning artist Manish Verma to recreate a Mysore style painting using a photograph of the Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar. This classic Mysore style portraiture shows the young scion accoutred in his royal vestments and Mysore peta adorning his head while his posture follows the classic from that can be seen in many of the older Wadiyar portraits. He is seated on the silver Bhadrasana which suggests that he has just been invested with the (symbolic) royal authority of Mysore Kingdom.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Wednesday – June 02nd, 2015
N.R. Constituency MLA Tanveer Sait today launched the long-pending Jodi Tenginamara Road works from Highway Circle to the junction behind JSS Dental College.
The MLA, who was accompanied by MCC officials, conducted survey by taking measurements for the widening works.
Speaking to SOM, he said that the works would be taken up in two phases with works pertaining to construction of drains, removal of old soil and putting new soil for laying of the new road in the first phase covering 760 mts at a cost of Rs. 2.9 crore.
He further said that in the second phase works on 1,100 mts of this stretch would be taken up and added that the Pourakarmika Colony would be demolished and the residents of the Colony would be accommodated in the houses built by the Slum Board under JnNURM scheme.
The MLA said that the works in the second phase would be taken up at a cost of Rs. 5.5 crore and added that a separate road for heavy vehicles to ply is also being taken up jointly by the MCC, MUDA and the Railways.
He further said that only asphalting the stretch of road would be unscientific as the road is very low and during rains, the road is flooded besides damaging it again and hence the road would be heightened and asphalted.
He said that before taking up asphalting, new sewage pipeline with bigger pipes would be laid.
As the density of traffic on this road is high, the road would be widened, he said and added that measures would be taken to prevent heavy vehicles such as lorries, fuel tankers from entering this stretch as separate road is being laid for them to join the Ring Road.
Former Corporator N.B. Tiwari, Railway Goods Shed Lorry Owners Association President Abdul Khader Shahid, Mahadevaprasad, MCC officials and others were present.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Wednesday – May 27th, 2015
