The enjoyment was clearly written on their faces at the end of the day as they had seen nothing like this before.
Mysuru:
Planters from Virajpet in Kodagu, Juthika Bopanna, Suman Chengappa and Divya Madaiah, had come all the way to Mysuru for the “Palace on wheels” trip offered to tourists this Dasara.
“We have seen Mysuru Palace in the past, but not the other palaces. And lunch at the Lalitmahal Palace was the icing on the cake,” they said, happier for the experience.
Picked up near Mysuru Palace, they were introduced to Jaganmohan Palace, given lunch at the Lalitmahal Palace, shown the Cheluvarajammanni Mansion, the Jyalakshmi Mansion at the University of Mysuru which houses the folklore museum , the Regional Museum of Natural History, the Indira Gandhi Museum and Railway Museum and then dropped back near Mysuru Palace. The enjoyment was clearly written on their faces at the end of the day as they had seen nothing like this before.
Twenty –year- old Manjula, a farmer’s wife from Maleyuru village in T Narsipur taluk, confessed it was her first Dasara in Mysuru. “I had only seen Dasara on television before,” she admitted. Manjula was one of 5,400 farmers brought in 108 KSRTC buses from 18 taluks of Mysuru, Mandya and Chamarajnagar taluks for the “Dasara darshan” organised by the district administration for villagers, who have never seen it before. As many as 3300 more farmers from 11 taluks of Kodagu and Hassan will be brought in the second batch to enjoy the Dasara.
The farmers were on Friday taken from T Narsipur taluk to the Mysuru Palace, Chamundi hills, the zoo, and to enjoy the events of the Women’s Dasara and Raitha Dasara. Transport minister H M Revanna said the district administration had given the KSRTC Rs 20 lakh to organise the trip.
Children’s Dasara
Tarunya, daughter of the mahout of Dasara elephant Abhimanyu from Thithimathi and the youngest among 35 kids of mahouts and kavadis, made her parents proud by performing at the Children’s Dasara which began on Friday at Jaganmohan Palace. The kids who were trained by music and drama teachers from government and private schools, staged Kindara Jogi play.
All 15 Dasara elephants were familiarised with the booming sound of nine cannon fire shots fired from 150 year old brass cannon barrels, on Friday. raditionally, 21 cannon shots will be fired in 90 seconds during the Jumbo Savari procession after the Chief Minister offers floral tributes to the idol of Goddess Chamundeswari placed in the Golden Howdah.
source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation,Current Affairs / Deccan Chronicle, by Shilpa P / September 23rd, 2017
