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Having your High Court case heard in Mangalore itself rather than going all the way to the garden city knocking on the door of the revered red building opposite Vidhana Soudha is an option any citizen of Dakshina Kannada district would go with any day. In spite of it appearing more convenient, the concept has failed to evoke response from the men who matter. Repeated appeals demanding

Located deep in a densely-populated, over-crowded and largely Muslim locality in Bangalore is a home of cheer and hope that I only very recently discovered. Founded by an amazing woman, Sajeeda Begum, Aasra is probably the only home for destitute and abandoned Muslim women in Karnataka, and, I suppose, one of the few such institutions in the whole country. Housed in a double-storey rented bungalow

In a community where literary figures are not adorned, it is a tiresome idea to stay afloat with one’s literary interests unbridled. It is not that community has censured them, but to spread the idea of literary innovation it has taken a generation of a time! Noorie Sab, as he was fondly called, churned out a host of literary works in Kannada while dwelling on a delicate balance of community and

A frolicking, high spirited young girl she was, never losing an opportunity to admire even the smallest of things, be it the silvery wings of an insect, the dew drops on a newly awakened bud or the mighty gaze of the sun from the heavens above! Admiration always aglow in her eyes, this young one went about with life learning about everything – being a keen one that she was! Under the watchful and

. . Eid ul-Fitr culminates a month of fasting Muslims abstain from food and drink, An exercise in patience and discipline. Eid is for those lucky souls Who pray and beseech Allah For forgiveness and mercy. Eid brings Muslim community closure For sharing joy and blessing. Buying gifts and clothes for their children. O, Muslim brethren also look for those less privilege. While we celebrate a Special

While travelling in a taxi, I overhear my mother talking to my little sister saying this, ‘Only a man who fasts will have the joys of celebrating Eid. That’s what our beloved Prophet (pbuh) told us’. After a heavy day of shopping for the joyous occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, my nine year old sister talks excitedly about the clothes she will wear to the Masjid on the morning of Eid. My mother and I

An entire nation rejoiced as the Union Jack lowered and the ‘Tiranga’ fluttered high that August in 1947. The garden of free India blossomed, blood and sweat for which had been shed by hundreds and thousands of Indians. An iconic freedom struggle that it was, coastal districts of Karnataka too has its moments and people to boast of. Here are a few of them as we go back in time: Rani Abbakka

He certainly isn’t the sort whom most folks would define as even remotely ‘successful’. After all, he isn’t rich and famous and doesn’t have a ‘glamorous’ job. But, as far as I am concerned, Ramesh, whom I met on a recent trip to Kerala, is definitely among the most amazingly successful people I’ve ever come across. Ramesh is an assistant at a centre for mentally retarded people, and that’s where

Come Ramadan and this triangular snack becomes a must-have in the everyday Iftar shopping list. Pretty much the way Samosas have become an inevitable part of Ramadan in Mangalore, Bunder’s Bombay Lucky Restaurant has, over the years become synonymous with the snack itself. Riding on the name it has earned over a period of almost 100 years with its cuisines, Bombay Lucky Restaurant is not

Even though the much-needed road widening and concretisation works have been successfully completed in many parts of Mangalore city long ago, the traffic flow continued to be affected thanks to the incompetency of the Traffic Police and increasing menace of illegal road-side parking and double parking near places of commercial activity. The lack of civic sense among motorists, who tend to violate