Now, just pedal to illuminate Mysore Palace. For the first of its kind in history of county, District Administration in association with Palace Board and Private Telecommunications launched 'Cycle to light up the Mysore Palace' programme at Palace premises in city on Monday.
About ten stationary cycles have been placed at Mysore Palace premises, to encourage visitors to pedal as long as they wish. The cycles have been connected to a dynamo, and the generate energy will be stored in the batteries and will be used to light up a portion of the Mysore Palace during Dasara.
If the ten cycles are pedaled for ten hours continuously, about 1500 watts of power is generated from which about 1000 bulbs can be illuminated for about one hour. Generally to illuminate the bulbs, about 2000 units of power is needed.
At present the entrance gate of the portion have been connected with these batteries and from Tuesday, the bulbs will be illuminated by the generated pedal power. If a persons pedals for about 10-15 minutes he can generate power for a bulb to glow power.
Palace Board Deputy Director TS Subramanyam said that one megawatt power is used every hour to illuminate around 99,000 bulbs which are of 15 watts.
Deputy Commissioner PS Vastrad said that the efforts to promote cycle-to-work culture in the city and cycle to light up the Mysore palace are the innovative and eco-friendly gesture towards the cause. He said if good response is received, measures will be taken to place more cycle in other places of palace premises.
Though the bicycles will light up only a part of the Mysore Palace, it's an eye-watching demo of the advantages of using bicycles and encourage the visitors to the palace to do their bit for eco-friendly illumination.
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Cauvery row: Tongawallahs wait for good business
The cauvery issue has not only declined in number of visitors to Mysore, where as Tongawallahas who make roaring business during summer are also affected severely due to this.
Tongas (two wheels), Sarot (four wheels tonga) attract tourists, specially children in large number during summer holidays and dasara. But due to decline in in number of tourists to city they are still waiting for good turn over.
Mysore Tongawallahs Association Treasurer Siddappa said that the response is very poor compare to previous years. He says, the business could improve after another five days.
According to him tourists like Sarot in large number, as they can sit comfortably and enjoy the ride, whereas not same with the Tonga.
As this year Dasara will be low cost event plans have been made to provide permission for only 25 sarot to enter into palace premises during the day one celebrations of Dasara, whereas earlier about 40 tongas were provided entry.
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Insurance coverage for tongawallahs from this dasara
Tongawallahs will be covered under Insurance from this Dasara. Worth Rs three lakh insurance coverage will be provided for them under group insurance, where every year Rs 800 premimum will be sponsored by one of the private firm. This year, Safewheels has paid the premium for 25 tongawallahs.
Tourism Department KS Shivalingappa said that if the tongawallahs continue in same job and would have maintain good health for horses the insurance coverage for them will be continued for next year. In case of any accidents, or casulties the tongawallahs can claim for their insurance. They were also provided with traditional peta and uniform.
12 kiosks opened
To boost tourism in State with the existing five Tourist Information Kiosks, another 7 kiosks have been opened in city surroundings like Palace, Exhibition, Chamunihill, CAVA, Jaganmohan Palace Market, Railway Station, Church, KRS, Suburban Bus stand.
Apart this kiosks information have also been opened at Kollegal, Talkad, Nanjangud, Ilwala to provide complete information for tourists about dasara and other tourist place across State.
25,000 pamphlets which consists of prime tourist locations of Mysore, Mandya, Coorg, Hassan and Chamarajanagar will be distributed to the visitors.
About 60 Tourism Students of Mahajana College, Teresian and Vidyavikas college, have been deputed as volunteers to provide information through kiosks. They will be working in two shifts and they are provided with Rs 100 per day. Last year about 1,000 people had seeked information from the Kiosks where majority of them were foreigners and other state people.
Price tag ?
The tourism department has left Tongawallahs Association to fix the price for sarots and tonga for a ride inside the palace as well as outside. While Sarot were charged Rs 100 for a round and sorruding the place its Rs 300.
Every year 40 tongas including sarots were allowed inside the Palace, and tourism department used to pay some amount for them.
But this year to cut down the expenditure only 25 tongas have been provided entry.
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Highlight
* Information Department has deputed Journalism students as volunteers to cover the dasara events as well as to give them gist about the programme.
* The replica of Dasara Durbar Hall has been created for backdrop screen of cultural programme this year. The colour combination for pillars, design were same to same, creating curious among people.
* Hundreds of physically handicapped children took part in the day one inauguration of dasara festivities. The equipments were provided for them from tourism department and they were allowed to use the lift.
* Lack of communications, planning, preparations were witnessed in some of the events, which had lead to delay in inauguration of events.
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Huge loss for businessmen this dasara
Dasara meant to be roaring business for many tradesmen, specially for craftsman and handicrafts. But, the recent decisions of District Administration not to honour chief guests on the dais with traditional Mysore Peta, Kashmiri Shall, Sandalwood Garlands as part of austerity measures to cut down the costs which is said to be running into lakhs of ruppes, has cost severe loss for businessmen. The decision was taken following drought.
Many of the traders have stocked sufficient quantity of petas, shalls, and other gifts articles making huge investment, not anticipating such a move by the District Administration. Majority of the businessmen said that they have to keep the stocks for next occasion.
Cauvery Emporium Manager Ranganath said that every year during dasara they were having a roaring business of Rs 1.5 to 2 lakh. But this year it has cut down to Rs 80,000 to 90,000 and there is a severe shortage in footfalls for emporium.
“This year our business has affected in large extent. Specially from last one month the day cauvery agitations began, the number of visitors coming to city has come down. The emporium in palace premises is also facing huge loss,” he added.
Loss for local serial set sellers
The conventional small bulbs have been dispensed with led bulbs from this year. As per the decision taken by District Administration to celebrate eco-friendly Dasara and to decorate traffic islands, monuments and prominent buildings with LED bulbs serial sets, it has cause huge lose for traditional serial set sellers of city.
Officials who are happy with the move say, its very helpful to educate masses to use maximum amount of LED bulbs to save energy as well as to cut down the cost.
According to Dasara Illumination Sub-Committee President Ramesh the illumination work has been given for contract to a firm and said that the serial sets have been imported from other place.
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Flower replica of Anne Gaadi cynosure of all eyes
The Replica of Anne Gaadi (a cart pulled by elephant), was cynosure of all eyes at flower show inaugurated by Horticulture Department at Curzon Park on Tuesday.
Interestingly it has been created by city artist J Umashankar, a flower decorator. He had used one lakh dutch roses (red, pink, yellow, white), and other flowers like Carnation, Zarbara, Erica Palm and four varieties of Orchids to create this model.
Ten real music instruments such as Veene, flute, fiddle, mrudanga, nagaswara, Tamboori, morching, Kanjira, harmonium, saxaphone have been placed inside the Anne Gadi. After five days, as the flowers become dry the flower will be replaced with other multi-colour flowers.
Though the human structure of mahouts and two sainikas created out of PoP, was needed little furnish, overall view of the Anne Gadi attracted large number of people towards it and the artist received lot of applauds for perfection.
Colourful flowers like Carnation, Lisianthus, Asiatic Lilly, Chrysantemum, Silver Doller, Alstromeria, orientally lilly, pot plants, carnation, Chrysantemum, Blue Daisy, Albtromeria Lilly, Oriental Lilly, Lisianthus, Chrusantemus, Orchid Dola and varieties of fruits and vegetables were other center of attraction. The names of exhibitors and flowers have been labeled.
Apart this, various government stalls have been erected at horticulture department premises to provide information for people about rain water harvesting, usage of solar, sales of flower seeds, organic farming and many other.
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Temple Mantap out of mosambi !
Umesh an employee of Horticulture Department had created beautiful temple mantapa using thousands of Mosambi (Sweet Lime). Being a D group employee, this is the second time Umesh has shown his skill.
In 2008 he had created 'Tonga' (Kudure Gaadi) and this time he has created Temple Mantapa using about 16,000 of sweet lime and pineapple, apple, permanganate for kalasha.
“This year we had two center of attraction at flower show. Its some what amazing to watch the mantapa created using single fruit and even looks quite pretty,” says Ranju, a visitor.
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Earlier Maharaja's were riding the elephant during the world famous Jumboo Savari and along with them infantry, cavalry and various other cultural and art troupes were taking part in procession.
The Anne Gaadi which carried 24 musicians, scholars was one of the main attraction during procession. It was introduced by Wodeyars in 1920, to introduce palace musicians to common people and facilitate them. Later, Palace musicians were taken on procession every year on Anne Gadi. Hence, in memory of it 'Anne Gaadi' has been created this year in Dasara Flower Show.
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Tension prevailed at curzon park for some time when the general public took task for the officials. All this happened, when the officials opposed entry of public till the inauguration. Fed up for waiting about one-and-half years, even after purchasing tickets long time before, they took officials for task and entered the show forcibly.
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Now enjoy water sports across year
Here comes good news for Mysoreans for Dasara festivities. All this days water sports were extremely held during Dasara, but hereafter, there is no need of waiting till next dasara. When you think of enjoying the aqua sports just go to Varuna Lake, to enjoy water sports activities.
Being situated just a ten kilo away from heart of the city, Varuna lake is a good place for water sports activity, has its surrounded with greens and specially, the lake will be filled with water across year.
Moreover, people used to throng for the adventure sports activities every year during dasara. In other time they used to take out pedal boating at Karanji Lake or motyorbike at birds century in Srirangapatna, as they are left with no other option.
Hence, HP P Association accompanied with Department of Irrigation, GOK has inaugurated Varuna Boating Center on contract basis for three years and has introduced banana, Kayak, pedal boating, engine boating and many other sports activities.
By the inauguration of the boat center, now people can spend the days here and even can have a wonderful weekends. The cost of Banana is Rs 100, Jusky 250 and Engine Boar Rs 50 (per head). Minister Somanna inaugurated the boating center on Tuesday, by taking a ride.
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Traditional doll placing culture disappearing in Mysore
The traditional way of making dolls at home and displaying them during the Navaratri, is slowly vanishing as now women choose readymade dolls to display, which are available in contrast colours.
Earlier, majority of the women who were displaying dolls at home, used to create the dolls months before the Navaratri, based on their theme. But now availability of readymade dolls with glossy finishing, bright colours of various shapes has made them to purchase dolls from the shop.
The other thing which has influenced women in large number is taking part at dasara doll competitions. In one side it has encourage more number of women to place dolls at home upholding the tradition, while in other side the traditional practice of placing dolls is melting down.
Thought the availability of ready-made dolls had brought cheers in many, some of them feel sorry as the traditional practice is disappearing.
Some have retained century-old dolls provided for them by their ancestors. But, majority of the women who have recently started placing the dolls, throng for gift shops in search of the dolls.
“From our childhood we were thought to decorate dolls and place them. But, from last four years I am purchasing the ready-made dolls due to my age factor,” says, Hemalatha who places dolls from three decades in Mysore.
“The available ready made dolls are very attractive and have eased our works. Based on the concept, we can purchase the dolls. Though it can be created at home, the finishing will be rough and looks odd. This year, I have highlighted struggle of freedom fighters, for which I have used the ready made plaster of Paris dolls, which looks naturally,” says Jayashree resident of Vidyaranya Puram.
Ramsons which displays dolls at its gallery, is receiving overwhelm response year to year. Named as 'Bombe Mane', dolls brought from across country, are placed under one roof in this gallery.
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Grandma prepare traditional dishes at cooking contest
Traditional and contemporary dishes cooking competition was conducted for grand mothers and spouse at Food mela in city on Thursday.
The participants who were quite tensed, excited to take part in the contest, prepared yummy dishes and decorated them with varieties of fruits, vegetables, and also by arranging of traditional dolls, to impress judges and also to present them attractively.
In all, six grandmothers and seven couple took part in the event, where grandmother prepared contemporary dishes, while couples prepared contemporary dishes.
For some husbands it was a daily affair to help their wife at home, while for few it was a new experience. Couple Nagasri Nandeesh said that because of the competition her husband is helping her for last three days.
Grandmother Manomani says, “its indeed a good move to enroll grandmother to the dasara activities. I am very much enthusiast to take part in the event.”
Grandmother prepared traditional dishes like Uddina Kadabu, Bale Kajjaya, Chakuli, Khara Shavige, Kesuvina Uppitu, Sanna Jeerige Paisa, Yeriyappa, Holige, Vada using nine varieties of leaves and nine ingredients. Couple prepared Ladu out of wheat, Neeru Dosa, Carrot Halva, Mushroom Masala, Paneer Peas, and much more.
Winners of the contest are:
Traditional category: Prema (I); R Manjula Vishwanath (II); KS Lalitha (III). Contemporary category: BR Chandrashekar and Shyamala (I); Raghavendra and Spoorthi (II); Narayan Murthy and Shubha Lakshmi.
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Mane Mane Dasara yet to kick start in many wards
Mane Mane Dasara is yet to kick-start in many wards. Thought the event was scheduled to be held from October 16 to 22, covering all the the nine zones simultaneously (which consists of seven wards each) due to lack of preparations in some wards, Mane Mane Dasara Sub-Committee have decided to hold the event on Sunday (October 21).
Among 65 wards, celebrations have been held in 22 wards so far. When question about the delay in conducting the programme, the committee members said that they are preparing to host the event.
In a bid to spread the dasara festive atmosphere across district, and involve every household to dasara celebrations 'Mane Mane Dasara' programme was introduced three years ago.
Committee Vice President Ramprasad said that among 65 wards, the event will be held on majority of the wards on Sunday (October 21). Apart from youngsters measures have been taken to involve senior citizens and special children in the event.
Particular area corporators will be celebrating the event in their wards and women have been asked to draw colourful rangoli in front of their houses, to display dasara dolls in house, to decorate and clean the areas. Judges distribute prizes to the best doll exhibited houses.
Running race, pot breaking, Kabbadi, tug-of-war, musical chair, recitation of folklore, bhavageethe, and much more competitions have been organised. Winners will be awarded with certificates and gifts.
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Support use of animal skin to create traditional drums
Karnataka Folklore Academy President Dr Banandur Kempaiah asked to support use of animal skin to create traditional drums instead of fiber. Stating the animal skin instruments provide good notes in music, compare to fiber, he said that measures will be taken to use seasoned animal skin in coming days, to prepare instruments.
Stating government should provide Rs 1 crore allocation to the Janapada Academy from the Rs 45 lakh per annum, he said that if allocation is increase it will be helpful to held many folklore activities in state.
Addressing the media persons here on Friday, he explained in detail about the various programme chalked out by Academy. Stating about 180 folklore arts exist in State, he said that a folklore literature which consists of art, culture, tradition, lifestyle of tribes will be released.
Janapada Jatha
'Janapada Jatha' will be held in villages to spread the importance of folklore and to revive the folklore troupes and to attract more number of youngsters towards folklore. Training will be provided for SC/ST at seven districts and uniform will be distributed for artistes, and scholarship will be distributed for five students every year.
Plans have been made to hold women conference in Dharwad; South Indian Folkart conference for Dravidian; enrollment of youngsters for folkart programmes; screening of special programmes in Doordarshan and Akashavani; cultural exchange programme among villages, where population is above thousand and to stage programmes at slums.
Pension facility has been provided for 15,000 artistes and government has released Rs 20 lakh for welfare fund of artistes. Academy has honoured 715 folklore artistes and 100 folklore experts and has released 76 folklore books so far.
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Academy President Dr Banandur Kempaiah said that he is not aware of dasara celebrations being held in Mysore. He said even though long-ago one of the committee member had approached for government to provide a chance to introduce folklore dasara, it was not taken serious by the government.
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Women Inmates celebrate dasara in Jail
It was a festival atmosphere in city central jail on Saturday. The women inmates of Central Jail took part in dasara celebrations by contesting in rangoli and bhajans competitions.
Dasara Mahila Sub-Committee members conducted programme for women inmates of Central Jail, to provide they homely atmosphere and also to enroll them for dasara festivities. Bagina and sweets were distributed.
Among 69 women inmates, some of them took part in Bhajan programme while other in Rangoli contest. Many of the women who were seen depressed, were sharing their agony with committee members.
“When people from across country are being engaged in various dasara activities, we thought of enrolling women inmates in dasara activities, as they should not feel lonely”, says committee president Vidya Urs.
At Kalamandira
Taking a break from their regular housework, women in large number took part in various competition held at Kalamandira by Mahila Dasara Sub-Committee.
Unmindful of interruption of rains, 470 women took part in the Pot breaking, Musical chair, quiz, and debate competitions. But, following rains the programme was started later in the day.
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Double bonanza for father and son duo
The father and son duo are happy as their Tusker Arjuna has been selected to carry 750 kilo Golden howdah with idol of Goddess Chamundeshwari at this year's Jumboo Savari.
57-year-old Mahout Doddamasti is about to retire in three years, but what has brought him double joy is not only his elephant has been chosen to carry howdah this year, but also his son Sennappa got a post as a Kavadi, for the elephant Arjun, which will be center of action on procession route.
Both of them are delighted as this is double bonanza for them. In one side father will rode Arjuna carrying howdah, whereas his son will be walking beside as a Kavadi on procession route, which be held on Vijayadashmi Day (October 24).
“We think this as a dasara gift and we are extremely delighted as this opportunity does not come to every one. Very rarely father and son take care of same elephants and being selected to take part in procession,” says Doddamasti.
Kavadi Sennappa says “though I used to take part in dasara festivities accompanied with my father, this year I am very happy as our Elephant Arjun being selected to carry howdah and I to have got post of Kavadi.”
“We pray goddess Chamundeshwari that the journey of procession goes of without any distractions,” said duo. Doddamasti is the third mahout of tusker Arujna, earlier mahouts were Khusa and Seenappa.
While, 54-year-old Balarama's Mahout Thimma, who has served for eleven years as Kavadi and from last two year as Mahout was seen quite upset. With high tone voice he said “Balarama is great elephant and has carried howdah for 12 times since 1999, without any black dot in its carrier.”
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Special care is being provided for 52-year-old tusker Arjuna, successor of Balarama, who carries 750 kilo Golden howdah this year. The elephant has been tied separately and mahouts have been asked to provide additional care of Arjuna. This is the second time Arjuna carrying the howdah.
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Yuva Sambrama, Food Mela a big hit in dasara festivities
Yuva Sambrama and food mela turned out to be a big hit this year in dasara festivities. The events went of well, much beyond the expectation, attracting people in large number.
As this year with the state reliving under drought the authorities cancelled the Yuva Dasara and conducted Yuva Sambrama. The event drew lot of crowd, especially the youth and students
Yuva Sambrama which began with popular beads of songs, being played out by enthusiastic performers at Open Air Theater for week long, drew a large number of students every evening.
Even foreign students from Afghanistan, Lovas in Vietnamese, Mauritius, and youth of 40 countries gave performance, while received a loud applauds from the people. The crowd went into raptures very often after witnessing the programmes. In all, a wide range of dance-drama and music was performed by students of about 120 various colleges.
There was a very special events like hip-hop, folklore, dance, fusion of traditional and western dance, retro to metro, and several other programmes with new theme steal the show. This time seating arrangements were made separately for women, family members and youth.
Food Mela
The other event which draw the equal crowd was the food mela. The entire venue of CADA premises was jam packed with people, often found it difficult to stand and eat.
People were seen standing in long queue, waiting patiently to relish their favourite dishes. As majority of the food items were moderately prices, both veg and non-veg, this was the other attraction for people to taste as many varieties of food they could feast upon.
Traditional food preparations from coorg, Andhra, West Bengal, Kerala and other places were set-up exclusively at the fair. One best feature of this year food mela was provided with handwash basin and drinking water facility. The sad part is lack of cleanliness. The entire premises was littered with waste, creating a ugly scene.
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Gadag artistes educate people about modern surge 'AIDS'
Gadag: Women staging play in front of Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens on Monday.
A team of twelve members service minded artistes from Gadag, have descended on Mysore for dasara, not to take part in any events, but for a noble cause. They are putting their best efforts to spread awareness about this modern surge called AIDS by traditional methods.
As large crowed will be visiting Mysore to watch world-famous Jumboo Savari, the artistes have made best use of this. Wearing traditional dresses, depicting AIDS as goddess of death entering into households, the artistes are creating awareness among people about control and prevention of AIDS, through folk songs, skits, short plays, magic show, Kamsale, Dollu Kunitha, Folk Songs, Veeraghase, and Yakshagana.
Three women members of the troupe dance and sang together conveying the message not to maltreat AIDS victims, but instead look after them humanely. Their scripts, songs, thought providing narration of plays, drew the attention of people in large number. The gathered people were seen greeting the troupe for their campaign against AIDS.
Through folk songs, skits they are informing people about importance of usage of condemns, and other prevention measure to be taken-up for safe sex, problems faced by HIV positive, the way society treats them and much more .
Team Leader D Prakash said that its need of the hour to educate people about AIDS. “When awareness spread through theaters, it reaches very effectively to people and even easy to make illiterate aware of the issue.”
The troupe is involved in sensitising people by staging street plays based on various social issues from long time. In Mysore, they are organising this event at 150 places across the city, twice in a day starting from October 16. The shows ends on October 25.
The troupe thanked District Health and Family Welfare Department and District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit for providing them the opportunity to stage plays during dasara.
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The ups and downs of Dasara festivities
Every year new events are being added to Dasara to make it more interesting and keep in line with the recent happenings. Though this year several events evoked good response from the public, some of them failed to make any impact due to lack of publicity, while others drew strong criticism by pro-Kannada activists terming it as 'Saffronisation of Dasara'.
Lack of preparation and dearth of publicity led several events to receive luke warm response. Even after coming out with 27 sub-committees, several of the programmes were not planned well and there was lot of confusion among event organisers. Below is a list of ups and downs of the Dasara.
One positive impact of this year's Dasara was that dozens of local artistes got a chance to show-case their talent with events organised at six venues across city for nine days of the Dasara festivities.
The regular events such as Makkala Dasara, Food Mela, Dasara Heritage Walk, Yuva Sambrama, Raitha Dasara, Flower Show, cultural programme for handicap, Kite Festival took a center stage. The newly introduced programmes such as Magic Show, Suryaninda Chandranedege (Dawn to Dusk), an 12-hour cultural programme and the Yoga Dasara held at palace received a good response.
Wrestling witnessed a good crowd due to challenging bouts between seasoned wrestlers. Though Dasara Film festival was inaugurated with lot of funfair, due to lack of publicity the response was moderate. Same with the Mahila Dasara too. Even the Dasara Market Watch intended to draw the people's intention failed miserably.
There was no fee for the some of the adventure sports, unaware of it the turn out of people was very less. Even the 48-hour cycle race was also called off mid-way.
Events that failed miserably to attract people were the Dasara Kavi Goshti, Vidwat Goshti and Dharmika Dasara as there was a lot of opposition to these events.
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BEML bags all round rolling shield at flower show contest
BEML which has won prizes in 27 categories has bagged rolling shied during the ten-day Dasara flower show competitions held at Curzon Park.
Among 27 categories, BEML has bagged first place in 25 categories and has obtained 'Best Year of prize for arranging flowers and vegetables.
The event was organised by Horticulture Department on account of Dasara festival. Compare to previous year, there is a increase in number of participants upto 30 per cent this year. As many as 573 had took part in the contest in which prizes were distributed for 216 winners.
Every year competitions will be held under Ikebana, Flower Rangoli Contest, fruit carving, Indian Floral Art and various other categories. In all, about 60 flower pots and vegetables pots were displayed at the exhibition.
Winners of other categories
Sharada Vilas Education Society and SDM Institute for Management bagged award for gardening, while Co-operative Horticulture Director Ooty and Mysore has bagged award for arranging flower plants.
AS Dikshit has bagged most of the awards in the various competitions held for children. K Rathna resident of TK Layout has bagged award for arranging pots, while JG Basavaraju and HN Vasanth of RK Nagar has bagged award for maintenance of big and small private garden respectively.
Shyamala Prasanna has bagged award for maintenance of best private garden. 'Best Industrial Award' was given for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.
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Grow vegetables in pots
The colourful flower show will not only delight your eyes, whereas gives ideas how to grow green vegetables, flowers in pots.
According to BEML Gardner Mahadev women can grow majority of the vegetables in pots and the grown vegetables will be sufficient for two-three months and more over it will be organic.
Vegetables like Carrot, Ladies Finger, Brinjal, Sorekayi, pumpkin, Bitter Gourd, tomatoes, chilli, varieties of greens, beetroot, gedde kosu, cabbage and many other things can be easily grown in a small pots.
Watering the plants studying the climate, putting manure in time, removing the shed leaves from the pots to keep it green are some of the measures to be followed to cultivate organic greens and vegetables.
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Did really Arjuna killed a mahout ?!
It was widely reported in media that Elephant Arjuna had trampled mahout to death. The question is did really Arjuna killed a Mahout late in 1990's! According to eye witnesses mahout Pasha of Sarla elephant and mahout Ramu of Gajendra elephant, on that faithful day the person who died in the incident is not Mahout, while its Kavadi Annaiah.
They say, earlier elephants were taken for a bath at Karanji Lake and were brought back to the Palace daily. The day when the incident occurred, Mahout of Bahuddur elephant had gone to collect payment, and Kavadi Annaiah rode the elephant.
“Always when we take elephants for walk we place female elephants in between of male elephants. But that day, in hurry Kavadi Annaiah placed Bahuddur elephant in front of Arjuna, which led to clash between the two elephants.”
“When Arjuna hit Bahaddur from the backside on the way, all of a sudden Bahaddur lost the balance because of the slope. Kavadi Annaiah who was not seated properly on back of Bahaddur lost his balance and felt to the ground. At this unexpected turn of event, the Kavadi was trampled beneath the feet of hind legs of Bahaduur or it might be from front legs of Arjuna which is even today mystery,” says Pasha the then Kavadi of Sarala.
While Mahout Ramu, who was then Kavadi of elephant Kokila says
“the mistake is of Kavadi Annaiah not Arjuna. He had not placed himself properly on the head of elephant. During the clash he fell down and might be stamped by Arjuna as he was following Bhaddur. Moreover, Wild elephants tramped persons very vigorously, but this incident was merely an accident and not an act of violence are rage by Arjuna. As Arjuna was standing next to him, the news spread as wild fire that Arjuna has trampled the mahout.”
When contacted Veterinarian Dr Nagaraj he said that Arjuna is very soft and though he might had killed a person, it might be accident. Anyways, after the incident an permanent bathing pit was built inside the palace.
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Theaters have stopped screening Tamil films
After the Cauvery river water dispute reached a flashpoint, theaters in the city have stopped screening Tamil films. Not only Mysore but also neighbouring districts Mandya, the hotbed of Cauvery agitation Chamarajanagar bordering Tamil Nadu, have voluntarily banned screening of Tamil movies.
Though several blockbuster movies have been released in Tamil from last two months, many of the movies are yet to be screened in theaters
of Mysore, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, which could have run to full houses here. Theater owners have decided not to screen any Tamil movies till the Cauvery issue, whose final verdict being awaited from the Supreme Court for October 30.
The sudden switch over to screening movies of other languages has caused a lot of hardship to some theater owners who were exclusively screening movies of a particular regional language like Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam. Either way there business has taken a beating.
Mysore District Theater Association President Ajit Kumar said that screening of Tamil films were stopped right from the day the agitation broke out. Mandya Theater Owner Srikanth added that screening has been stopped in five districts Mysore, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, Hassan and Coorg.
While some in support of the agitating farmers have stopped the screening of movie, it also true that some fearing untoward incidents stooped screening movies on their own.
Mysore Theater Association Secretary Rajaram said that “as per the governing rules the theater owners hold responsible and held for any mishap that occur inside the theaters. We do want to take any chance and meantime we are extending our support to farmers.”
Though the verdict is favourable to State, following Kannada Rajyothsava the theater owners cant screen other languages movie for another one week. This is followed every year during Rajyotsava.
People who are eager to watch Tamil movies have to wait for some more days to see their favourite stars on the silver screen.
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Theaters have stopped screening Tamil films
After the Cauvery river water dispute reached a flashpoint, theaters in the city have stopped screening Tamil films. Not only Mysore but also neighbouring districts Mandya, the hotbed of Cauvery agitation Chamarajanagar bordering Tamil Nadu, have voluntarily banned screening of Tamil movies.
Though several blockbuster movies have been released in Tamil from last two months, many of the movies are yet to be screened in theaters
of Mysore, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, which could have run to full houses here. Theater owners have decided not to screen any Tamil movies till the Cauvery issue, whose final verdict being awaited from the Supreme Court for October 30.
The sudden switch over to screening movies of other languages has caused a lot of hardship to some theater owners who were exclusively screening movies of a particular regional language like Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam. Either way there business has taken a beating.
Mysore District Theater Association President Ajit Kumar said that screening of Tamil films were stopped right from the day the agitation broke out. Mandya Theater Owner Srikanth added that screening has been stopped in five districts Mysore, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, Hassan and Coorg.
While some in support of the agitating farmers have stopped the screening of movie, it also true that some fearing untoward incidents stooped screening movies on their own.
Mysore Theater Association Secretary Rajaram said that “as per the governing rules the theater owners hold responsible and held for any mishap that occur inside the theaters. We do want to take any chance and meantime we are extending our support to farmers.”
Though the verdict is favourable to State, following Kannada Rajyothsava the theater owners cant screen other languages movie for another one week. This is followed every year during Rajyotsava.
People who are eager to watch Tamil movies have to wait for some more days to see their favourite stars on the silver screen.
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Bollywood actor to narrate history of Amba Vilas Palace
Good news awaits tourists visiting the Amba Vilas Palace as they can now watch the son-et-lumiere, popularly known as Sound and Light show in Hindi and English languages, where the voice will be provided by a famous personality of Bollywood.
According to sources legendary actors of film industry, either Ompuri or Naseeruddin Shah, will be giving voice for the show. Most probabilities are there for Ompuri.
The Kannada script penned by the famous linguist Lingadevaru Halemane is being translated to Hindi by Vibhanshu of National School of Drama, New Delhi, while for English by famous journalist Prakash Belavaadi. The written script has been given to scion of Mysore Royal family, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar for review.
Though initially megastar Amithabh Bahchan had agreed to give the voice, it was later dropped. The programme has already being going on, and its being rendered only in Kannada, as such majority of the tourists are unable to understand it.
The play which begins with the legend of Goddess Chamundeshwari concludes with the history of Mysore Palace and Yaduvamsha dynasty and will be played alternately in Hindi, English and Kannada languages.
The entire project has been allotted to Innovative Lighting System at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore, which includes charges for rendering the narration in all the three languages Hindi, English and Kannada. The show is expected to last 50 minutes.
Palace Board TS Subramanyam said that at any time the show might be launched in other National languages, and it contains voice of top actors, but the names cant be disclosed at this moment.
Innovative Lighting System Project System Krishnakumar said that in couple of days names will be finalised.
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