Kikkeri Narayana

AHMEDABAD: The latest innovation in robotics has helped Mysore-based parents of Harsh Kikkeri, director of the firm, Advanced Development, and the son of Joy Doctor, a local businessman, see Sabarmati Ashram despite them not being present in Ahmedabad. Kikkeri’s parents had never been to Sabarmati Ashram in the city and Doctor’s son in Germany also wanted to see the place where Father of the Nation had spent many years during the freedom struggle. Hence they took the help of technology…

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Back to roots:A tribal dance being staged at the workshop in Mysore on Thursday. Workshop on tribal culture inaugurated The workshop will focus on the art forms of tribal communities, especially dance and music ‘Workshop has helped us revive our art forms, made us feel it is important too’ MYSORE: Kaadina Haadu – a 10-day workshop on tribal culture organised by the Bhoomigeeta Trus – was inaugurated on the verdant premises of the Fine Arts College here on Thursday with…

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Chief Minister designate Siddaramaiah, who has always maintained good relationship with writers and progressive thinkers, especially in and around Mysore, has invited prominent personalities to be present at the swearing-in ceremony to be held at Bangalore on Monday. Former president of District Kannada Sahitya Parishat (DKSP) Manasa said the CM-designate had given a list of some 60 prominent personalities, whom he wished to witness his swearing-in from the front rows. So, 30 persons are bound for Bangalore on Monday in…

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Seminar on economic development and socio-cultural change today It is being held in honour of Scarlet Epstein Anthropologist Mishra will deliver keynote address Mysore: Society for Indian Medical Anthropology (SIMA) Mysore, an all-India association of anthropologists involved in research on health and disease, will organise a seminar on “Economic development and socio-cultural change in the era of globalisation” at the conference hall of the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) on Thursday. SIMA is organising the seminar in association with…

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Kritya 2008, the fourth poetry festival celebrated by the Kritya organization, was held in Chandigarh (Punjab) in collaboration with the Punjab Arts Council and with the support of the Sahitya Akademi, CILL Mysore and other literary bodies in different countries. During the three days of this Poetry Festival, we had readings of almost 50 prominent poets. They included Ramakant Rath (Oriya) , Odveig Klyve (Norway), Keki Daruwala ( English), Natalia Toledo, Evelyn Holloway (Austria), Nand Kishor Acharya (Hindi), Triin Soomets…

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