K M Cariappa’s ancestral house which houses a public library is not much use to the public. How many of students and general public are benefited from it is a big question. Teachers and students have expressed displeasure as the library remain open only on a few days.
It was former Chief Minister J H Patel who inaugurated the library in 1999.
Prior to the library, the building was functioning as a Nada Kacheri. It was the ancestral house of first commander in chief of Indian army Field Marshal Cariappa.
The board which is hung outside the building reads as Field Marshal K M Cariappa Memorial building.
The board reminds us that the house was the place where Cariappa was born. A few wants the building to remain as a library. However, a few wants to install a bust in front of the house.
If the library continue to function, then it will help the public, said teachers.
There are over 10,000 books in the library. The library has 281 members. The membership fee is Rs 30. There is one librarian. The library purchases newspapers.
However, it remains closed throughout the day. It will be open only on three days in a week till 12.30 pm.
The public said it would be better if the library is kept open in the evening.
Rangubai Vittalrao, member of the library said “there are good books available in the library. However, many in the town do not have habit of reading. The timings of the library is not suitable for the general public. It should remain open on all the days in a week after 2 pm.”
R K Narayana, a member of K M Cariappa memorial library for the last 15 years said “the library has not been much use to the public. Out of 281 members, only 50 visit the library regularly.”
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> District / Shanivarasanthe, DHNS – March 19th, 2013
Director: A Muthu
Cast: Nishan Nanaiah, Saranya Mohan, Annu Kapoor, Aman Verma, Kishore Sahani, Pooja Gupta, Ankit Sharma, Boloram Das Shashant Udapurkar, Sushant Khandiya ,Shashi Chaturvedi Nitin Jadhav, Mazar Khan , Preet Saluja, Varun Kashyap Banner: Karrm Entertainment Producer: A. Muthu, Salim Tanvar Story, Screenplay: Shailesh Verma Background Music: Monty Sharma Music: Sachin Gupta, Sameer Tandon, Raju Sardar Lyricist: Sameer Anjan Choreographer: Vickas Sharma Costume: Supraba Jain Editor: A Muthu Cinematographer: Sanket Shah Action: Parvez Khan Art: Nitin Wable Genre: Social, Family Drama, Sports ( Badlapur Boys )
Synopsis
Film ‘Veenila Kabadi’, a Tamil super hit film which was directed by Susindran in 2009 is
now being remade in bollywood and it will be called ‘Badlapur Boys’. Bollywood editor A Muthu who has edited more than 50 films like Sadak, Deewana, Balwan, Raja Babu, Judwa, Ziddi, Haseena Maan Jayegi has taken the remake rights of film ‘Veenila Kabadi’ and turns producer with this film.
Badlapur Boys deals with a plot of social family romantic drama with sports as a backdrop and the lead hero Nishan states it’s a very simple film and people who have dreams of being successful will surely connect with the subject.
Kiran Pooncha.
From sketching to photography could be considered a natural transition, but switching from land acquisition to bird photography and conservation is a paradigm shift. Kiran Poonacha from Bangalore has not only made that shift but also crowned it with international laurels and appreciation from the world’s best bird photographers.
Known as the raptor man of India, Pooncha is a born conservationist, rescuing and carrying out documentation work on raptors, especially eagles in various corners of India. It also gives him an opportunity to capture the majestic birds in action. Says Pooncha, “I love their temperament, their style, their enormous power and majesticity. I want to share my moments with these powerful yet graceful birds with everybody.”
Unlike visualisation by other photographers, his image of the winged wonders stands out because they are captured when in action and that is what gives life to the pictures. The birds taking off, flying, diving, swooping, hunting, feeding, nurturing, he has caught all these with the right background and foreground, surreal lighting, great precision and artistic imagery. “Capturing birds in flight is technically very challenging but it is such rare movements that interest people and also stays in their memory. I’m also pursuing my passion in my hometown Coorg. This is a tribute to what I have been exposed to during my early years while growing up in Madikeri. I sincerely hope my photographs will help influence people conserve birds by restoring their natural habitat,” says Pooncha with a smile.
Hailing from a family of nature lovers and born and bred in the hill district of Coorg, a place abounding with rare and beautiful species of birds, Pooncha was inspired to start birding at the tender age of seven. Chikkaballapur, where he did his schooling and a nearby place called Gudibande with rocky terrain and scrub forests that support a variety of avians, played an important role in igniting his interest. Midway for 15 years, he missed nurturing these winged wonders in their habitat as he was busy with his education and professional duties but now nothing seems to stop him in his pursuit.
“I patiently bided for the time when I could go back to the world of birds. In 2006, Neeta, my wife and birding partner, gifted me a camera and that is when my passion for capturing my love for birds began. Coinciding with this, I met a couple of people through a social networking website who shared similar interests. These incidents gave me a second chance to pursue my passion to visualise birds in a permanent frame,” says Pooncha.
Pooncha became a member of India Nature Watch that supports well-known photographers from across the country for sharing their work on their website. This exposure played an important role in helping him to improve his photographic skills. He purchased his first DSLR camera in 2007 and his dear friend and boss Kumar Babu gifted a zoom lens and that is when he started concentrating on his chosen hobby, bird photography.
“I have done extensive studies on birds since childhood. I have raised pigeons, kites, parakeets, and sparrows, looked after injured birds, tending to their broken wings and spoon-fed them. Not all survived, however, one injured black kite would not part from me even after two years,” says the raptor man. Pooncha proudly adds, “I can tell you the spots where ea gles can be found, where they hunt, breed and Bangalore is filled with raptors—tawny eagles, snake eagles, boneless eagles, Indian spotted eagles and many more species.”
Now, every holiday and weekend is taken up by trips to scrub forests and wetlands around Bangalore in search of eagles. His favourite haunts on the outskirts of the city include Hessarghatta, T G Halli, Bannerghatta forests, Gudibande and Hoskote.
Over the years, his portfolio on raptors has attracted international attention and awards as some of the images are pretty rare, hitherto never captured on camera. Dedicated to studying these birds, Pooncha says, “My social life is a big zero as all my time is taken up either following them through thorny jungles or standing in slimy wetlands for days together, hoping for the best shot.”
Recollecting his experiences, he says, “Once I was following a Bar Headed Geese near Talkad near Mysore when a snake wound up around my leg. My position was so treacherous that neither could I leave my subject nor ignore the reptile. But fortunately, after two hours, the snake slinked away. Another time, I had to sit in the water for hours together to get a Little Grebe in action. Some images like two snakes fighting for territory at Hessarghatta, a snake eagle hovering between death and new life and falcons at Kolar for whom I waited for three years are still fresh in my mind.”
Pooncha’s dream project, a birding resort on a 30-acre land surrounded by Pushpagiri Hills near Madikeri will soon be a reality. He is hoping to bring renowned experts like Arthur Morris, popularly called “father of bird photography”, Doug Brown and others for workshops on bird photography apart from giving an opportunity to youngsters to know more about birds.
Decrying the nation’s obsession with big mammals, Pooncha appeals, “Birds need our help. They play a very important role in the food chain, pollination and of course, they are the natural scavengers of the earth. We have to look beyond tigers and elephants as India has thousands of species that needs protection at all levels. If I can convince hundred people to conserve nature in and around Bangalore, it will be a small beginning to save these helpless avians.”
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Magazine / by Meera Bhardwaj / March 31st, 2013
Heart For Art: Rani Pooviah / Special Arrangement / The Hindu A painting by Rani Pooviah now finds a place in the K.C.S. Paniker Museum of the Madras Movement, thanks to a donation
Over 50 years ago, a young artist named Rani Pooviah lived in Chennai, and taught at the Government College of Fine Arts. One of very few women in the field at that time, she was a gifted artist, a beloved teacher, and an integral part of the group of visionary artists, led by K.C.S. Paniker, who founded Cholamandal Artists’ Village in the 1960s.
A tragic accident cut short her life and her career, but not before she had made a significant contribution to the Madras Movement. That contribution was in danger of being forgotten, but now, her legacy has been enshrined in the K.C.S. Paniker Museum of the Madras Movement, in the form of a painting donated by P.M. Belliappa, in association with the Coorg Association of Madras. One of Rani Pooviah’s works / Special Arrangement / The Hindu
GLARING OMISSION
“I’ve been working at finding her works for some time,” said Belliappa, who knew Rani and her family personally. “Last year, I finally did. It had been haunting me that her paintings weren’t a part of the Museum. It was a glaring omission, a serious lacuna.”
“Rani and I both come from the area of Kodagu in Coorg, and she’s the only artist of such distinction to have come from there,” he adds. “So this donation was meaningful to me in more ways than one.”
For S. Nandagopal, who runs the museum, seeing this painting was a journey back in time. “When I joined the college as a student, Rani was teaching History of Art,” he says. “I remember, the first thing she said in class was that we weren’t going to talk about Greek or French art history, but about what some of our own great artists such as Janakiraman had done. That was a wonderful thing.”
Both men recall her being a vivacious and beautiful woman. “She was so exuberant, and she talked to us about a lot more than just art,” says Nandagopal.
After nearly a decade at the College, she got married and left for the U.S. That was where tragedy struck — Rani was in a car accident that left her in a coma for 13 years, never to recover.
“Her husband sent us some slides of works she did in the U.S.,” says Nandagopal. “They were incredible. If only she’d lived, she would have done some truly great work.”
The painting that has been donated to the Museum is one done by Rani in 1962, and captures her own particular style.
“When you look at her paintings, you see pure art, not bogged down by commercialism,” he says. “How sad it would be if younger artists never even knew who Rani was.”
Making sure the work of the Madras Movement artists is not forgotten is the purpose behind the Museum. “We’re in the process of acquiring more and more older works to try and fill the gaps and document the Movement completely,” says Nandagopal.
Thanks to the generosity of Belliappa, one important gap has been filled, and the memory of a pioneering young woman artist, captured for posterity.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Features> Friday Review> Art / by Divya Kumar / Chennai, March 29th, 2013
Two sweet looking heroines Ramya Barna and Harshika Poonacha have been finalized for ‘Premaya Namaha’. In addition to it the new hero Fayaz Khan son of former minister of Karnataka Jamir Ahmed a strong Janata Dal Secular politician a right hand of former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is making debut.
Fayaz Khan has taken training from Anupam Kher School of acting in Mumbai and gearing up for a love story film. Bhuvan is another hero of the film.
Meanwhile Producer Niyaaz Khan who announced ‘Enidu Manasali’ in the last year coming from Mumbai is introducing Ankith as music director and Harish Nayak is the cameraman.
A politician son becoming hero is not for the first time in Kannada cinema. Kumar Bangarappa, Madhu Bangarappa, Ajay Gundu Rao, Rakesh son of Siddaramaiah are some of the examples already in the pages of history of Kannada cinema.
Jamir Ahmed former minister in JDS ruled Karnataka state son Fayaz Khan is new addition.
source: http://www.indiaglitz.com / Home / Saturday, April 06th, 2013
Ashwini Ponnappa talks about her partners and the invaluable international exposure in recent times.
Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta formed the second half of India’s formidable women’s doubles’ pair. Now that the two have gone separate ways, it’s important for Ashwini to play the role that Jwala did when they were together. Before combining in the Olympics last year for the final time, the twosome had won the 2010 Commonwealth Games gold and 2011 World Championships bronze.
Ashwini said, “I would not like to talk about it (split) much as we are not playing together anymore. We have spoken with each other and that’s what really matters. The last three years with Jwala have been wonderful. I’ve learnt a lot from her, I’m thankful for that.”
The 23-year-old soft-spoken Ashwini is settling down with new partners, Pradnya Gadre in women’s doubles and Tarun Kona in mixed. “Pradnya and I have not played a lot together. She does not have Jwala’s experience but she will definitely get there. We combine very well — she at the net, me at the back. I’ve a bit more experience than Pradnya. We are just about a year apart in age. I enjoy the partnership with her,” she said.
Ashwini and Kona came together in June 2012. Though the results in international tournaments have not been spectacular, Ashwini feels the exposure was invaluable. Ashwini and Kona benefited most from being part of the Asian All-Star team that made the semifinals of the Axiata Cup, the richest team championship event with a prize money of $1million. The semifinals and final will be played in Kuala Lumpur on April 13-14. The prelims were held from March 21 to 31 in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Ashwini said, “Tarun and I were selected as mixed-doubles pair for the Asian All-Star team. It has been a really good experience. To be part of a team with top-class players in the form of Chinese Bao Chunlai and Zheng Bo, Korean Lee Huin, Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tsu Ying and Hong Kong’s Yip Yui Yin was a different experience. We got to interact with them. Otherwise, normally in tournaments, you do not get to interact with them. They supported us really well.”
Ashwini believed the experience playing against players from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Europe and Philippines could only take her partnership with Kona forward. “It is a great opportunity to get more matches. We can get better at mixed doubles. We got to play top doubles’ pairs. We learned from our mistakes and got better in the subsequent games.”
Ashwini and Gadre lost in the qualifying rounds of the women’s doubles in last month’s All England Championships. In the mixed doubles, the Ashwini-Kona duo exited in the first round. “All England was not too great. I had an elbow problem,” Ashwini said. After the Axiata Cup semifinals and finals, Ashwini will head to Chinese Taipei for the Badminton Asia Championships (April 16-21) and then to New Delhi for the Yonex Sunrise India Open (April 23-28).
“Getting to the quarterfinals and semifinals and doing better than that in these tournaments would be the aim. I want to take each tournament as it comes. The CWG in 2014 is also something we are looking forward to,” she added.
source: http://www.dnaindia.com / DNA / Home> Sport> Interview / Place:Mumbai, Agency:DNA / by G. Krishnan / Friday, April 05th, 2013
Air Cmdr. O.P. Tiwari, Air Officer Commanding, No. 2 Air Force Selection Board, Mysore, is seen unveiling the portraits of Gen. K.S. Thimaya and Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa on the occasion of Gen. Thimaya’s 107th birth anniversary today, at the Sqn. Ldr. A.B. Devayya Bhavan (which houses the office of Sainik Welfare and Resettlement Department) behind DC office in city.
The function was held under the aegis of Air Force Friends Association, Mysore (AFFAM).
Picture right shows widows of war veterans and senior-most military veterans being felicitated (sitting, from left): Muktha Bai, 94-year-old widow of Govardhan Rao, World War II veteran; K.M. Thangamma, widow of Kodandera K. Machaiah, World War II veteran from Coorg Regiment; Bacharaniyanda Subbaiah, senior Sailor from the Indian Navy and Flying Officer Guruvappa from Napoklu, Kodagu; with (standing, from left) Shakunthala Subramani, AFFAM President M.N. Subramani, Star of Mysore Editor-in-Chief K.B. Ganapathy, Air. Cmdr. O.P. Tiwari and Lt. Col. K.S. Iyappa, SM, Commanding Officer, 1 (KAR), Engineering Coy, Mysore.
source: http://www.StarOfMysore.com / Home> General News / March 31st, 2013
It’s been years since he chatted about art and life while eating Coorg food with his friend, the late painter Rani Nanjappa, but artist S G Vasudev remembers it as clearly as if it was yesterday. “My late wife Arnawaz and I spent most of our evenings at her house. We were extraordinarily close,” he says.
On Thursday, he will be returning to those years during a function organised by the Coorg Association of Madras to remember one of the few women painters of Madras of the 1960s. Former IAS officer P M Belliappa will donate one of Nanjappa’s paintings to the museum at Cholamandal Artists’ Village.
“Coorg has few artists of repute and I felt it was a glaring omission that Rani’s work was not in the museum, which traces the Madras movement she was part of,” says Belliappa, who knew Nanjappa as a child. Belliappa bought two of her works recently and decided to donate a figurative canvas from 1962 to the museum, while retaining the abstract she did later in her life.
Born Rani Pooviah in the early 1940s, she studied art in Chennai at Stella Maris and College of Arts and Crafts. She was one of principal K C S Paniker’s favourite students and taught at the college later. “She was vivacious and well-read with a wonderful sense of humour and brilliant organisational skills,” says Vasudev.
Her student, sculptor S Nandagopal, remembers her as vivacious and striking personality who made art fun. “I was a physics student and never planned to be an artist,” he says. “But Rani was so passionate about art and could spot talent and inspire people.” Nanjappa moved to the US in the 1970s after she got married and continued to hold shows there. “She wanted to return. Looking back to India can be problematic for an artist,” says Vasudev. In March 1982, she went into a coma following a serious car accident, from which she never recovered.
Nanjappa’s work is described as being balanced and contemplative yet full of energy and colour. She drew inspiration from large kolams and colourful rangolis. Writing for Illinois Art Council in Chicago, she said, “The complex geometric patterns of kolam in white, pure and strong and the colour contrast in the rangoli helped me discover geometric forms in Indian dance and music. For example, in Bharatanatyam, besides the graceful rhythm, there are strong angular movements, giving ideas of geometrical patterns traced in the air. These are my inspiration.”
source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / Home> City> Chennai / by Shalini Umachandran, TNN / March 21st, 2013
Mysore :
The 107th birth anniversary of Gen. K.S. Thimayya will be celebrated under the aegis of Air Force Friends Association, Mysore (AFFAM) at Sqn. Ldr. A.B. Devayya Bhavan (which houses the office of Sainik Welfare and Resettlement Department) behind DC office in city on Mar. 31 at 10 am.
Air Cmde. O.P. Tiwari, Air Officer Commanding, No. 2 Air Force Selection Board, Mysore will be the chief guest while K.B.Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief, Star of Mysore and Lt. Col. K.S. Iyappa, SM, Commanding Officer, 1 (KAR), Engineering Coy, Mysore, will be the guests of honour.
On the occasion, three senior most military veterans (one each from Army, Navy and Airforce) will be felicitated, according to AFFAM President M.N. Subramani.
source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / Home> General News / March 27th, 2013
Bangalore :
Grace on and off the court; clear thought and a dedicated approach; a level head on capable shoulders. With qualities like these, it’s no surprise that Karnataka shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa has become one of the game’s leading lights and Indian badminton’s success story of the past few years.
The Kodava beauty, stunning looks and sharp mind to match, is best known as Hyderabadi Jwala Gutta’s partner. The duo that came together in 2009 with not many expectations to deliver, hit the big time shortly after their Commonwealth Games gold medal in New Delhi in 2010, when they bagged a priceless bronze in the 2011 Badminton World Federation World Championships in London.
The medal ended a 28-year-wait for the nation and the world No. 20 pair’s performance silenced critics. They also reached the quarterfinals of the China Open and Korea Open in 2011.
Soft-spoken and articulate, Ashwini is the yin to the effervescent Jwala’s yang. On the court too, she has become a balancing force with great adaptability. A former student of Bangalore’s St Francis Xavier’s Girl’s High School, the 22-year-old is a natural athlete with sport in her genes. Her father, MA Ponnappa, was a state hockey midfielder who took part in eight Nationals between 1974 and 1986 before turning out for Roman club Eur in a fruitful stint in Italian league hockey.
The banker, together with his wife Kaveri, instilled in their daughter’s mind the basics of success. Whether it was the long hours they devoted to the young Ashwini, helping with studies and homework, or picking her up after school and practice, efforts paid off. Never ones to pressure Ashwini to study harder, the Ponnappas gave their daughter a valuable gift early on – the choice to pursue her dreams. While veterinary sciences appealed to her, badminton was her passion. And the young woman hasn’t looked back since.
source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / Home> Sports> More Sports> Badminton / by Shrivatsha Sridhar, TNN / March 27th, 2013
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