Mysore/Mysuru: Workers telling that they had seen a human skull while cleaning the storm water drain at Agrahara has created panic among the residents. In the wake of monsoon, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has taken up cleaning of drains in city and the MCC staff had taken up cleaning of the storm water drain at…
Mysuru: A Look at its Past… By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist Not only the Maharajas and the benevolent ones, but even a Dewan also built an Agrahara in Mysore during the days of the Wadiyars. We have streets and roads built by the Dewans or named after them. But no Dewan has built an Agrahara…
By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist Kashipathy Agrahara in K.R. Mohalla is the largest Agrahara built in Mysuru. While the Agraharas were built by the Maharajas, their queens and others were one stretch of road with about 21 houses, Kashipathy Agrahara is spread out into a block of a few streets covering an extensive area from…
Rs. 30 lakh worth gadgets, accessories destroyed Mysore/Mysuru: A mobile phone shop has been gutted in a fire caused by short circuit at Agrahara in city on Monday night. At about 10.30 pm on Monday, public saw thick smoke emanating from A.M. Cell Zone, owned by one Syed Taukir on Madhavachar Road in Agrahara and…
By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist [Pics. by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav] Can a decent living house be built by spending just Rs. 5,000? One may deride such a proposal or may mock such a project. But this was proved possible in Mysuru during the reign of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. What’s more, these model houses are continuing…
By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist A look at the growth of Mysuru reveals an interesting feature of how the city expanded from Agraharas and Keris to Mohallas, Purams and Extensions. Initially, it was the construction of just one road with a few houses and as the population began to rise, construction of Mohallas, Purams and…
Mysore/Mysuru: Bike-borne miscreants have snatched a gold chain from a 47-year-old woman near Agrahara in city yesterday night. The woman, who lost her gold chain, is Manjula, a resident of Paduvarahalli in city. Manjula, who had come to Agrahara on some work, was walking near Uttaradi Mutt, when two persons on a bike from behind,…
Mysore/Mysuru: A youth was injured when his two-wheeler hit a barricade while trying to escape from a pack of stray dogs at Agrahara in city on Thursday night. Akash Gowda, son of Nagamani, a resident of 18th Cross, Ramanuja Road is the injured person. The incident took place while he was returning home from work…
Mysore/Mysuru: Miscreants on a scooter have snatched a gold chain from a woman on Seetharamarao Road in Agrahara here on Monday night. The woman, who lost her gold chain, is Suchitra, a resident of Seetharamarao Road. On Monday night at about 9.30, Suchitra was taking her pet dog for a walk when two miscreants on…
‘Guru Rayara Mahimegalu,’ a collection of Sri Guru Raghavendraswamy history penned by S. Nagaraja, was released at the 101 Ganapati Temple near Agrahara in city recently. Seen in the picture are (from left) Social Worker K. Raghuram Vajpayee, Kannada Sahitya Parishat Mysuru District President Dr. Y.D. Rajanna, writer and publisher S. Nagaraja, District Kannada Sahitya…
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