Kodagu Deputy Commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy inspect
The event at Raja Seat in Madikeri will be held from February 7 to 10
This year’s flower show in the sprawling garden of Raja Seat in Madikeri from February 7 to 10 will be plastic-free. The organisers have banned visitors from carrying plastic inside the show, which is expected to attract a lot of locals and tourists.
The organisers have urged the visitors not to carry plastic carry bags and bottles.
Kodagu Deputy Commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy on Wednesday inspected the arrangements for the show and later held a meeting with officials of the Departments of Horticulture and Tourism.
The Departments of Kannada and Culture, Kodava Sahitya Academy and other academies and cultural institutions will be presenting cultural shows on each day.
While the show is free for schoolchildren if they come wearing their uniform or with a letter issued by the heads of their schools, the entry fee for others would be ₹10, said Deputy Director of Horticulture Chandrashekar.
He requested the Police department to make arrangements for the parking of visitors’ vehicles and barricades at the venue.
Police Inspector K.B. Belliappa said temporary parking can be arranged at the old private bus-stand in view of the show from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and private buses can operate from the APMC premises until the flower show gets over.
Ms Joy told the officials to ensure convenience to the public and communicate information well in advance in case of changes in the arrangements.
Tourism officials urged the Deputy Commissioner to allow food stalls at the venue for the convenience of visitors.
The appeal was considered and those willing to set up food stalls will be getting space at the venue for free, a release said. Interested persons can call Tourism Department Assistant Director on 94480 04466 or 08272-228580 for information on establishing stalls and other details.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Mysuru – February 05th, 2020
Sree Cauvery Educational Institutions, Kuvempunagar, conducted a one-day University-level workshop on “Business Research Methodology” at the College auditorium in city recently.
University of Mysore (UoM) Registrar (Evaluation) Prof. K. Mahadevan inaugurated the workshop. UoM Commerce Faculty Dr. K. Nagendra Babu was the guest of honour. Institutions Chairman M.K.Kuttappa presided.
The workshop was conducted in three sessions. First session was handled by Dr. R. Jagadeesh, Professor and Head, Department of Studies in Business Administration (MBA), SBRR Mahajana First Grade College (PG Wing), Mysuru; 2nd session by Dr. B. Mahadevappa, Professor of Commerce, Post Graduate Centre, Hemagangothri, UoM and 3rd session by Dr. S.J. Manjunath, Faculty, B.N. Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences, UoM.
The workshop had 300 participants including academicians, research scholars, PG and UG students.
Institution Hon. Treasurer M.B. Aiyappa, Vice-Chairman M.M. Ponnappa, Special Advisor Prof. K.C. Belliappa, Kodava Samaja President K.M. Belliappa and Cauvery First Grade College Principal K.M. Padvamavathi were present.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / February 03rd, 2020
First off is the Amazon Prime Video series ‘Afsos’, in which he plays a suicidal writer who is simply unable to die.
Gulshan Devaiah
Gulshan Devaiah moved to Mumbai from Bangalore more than a decade ago to become a “good leading man who’s also a good actor, or even a great and legendary leading man, who’s a great and legendary actor”. Will he get there, as he hopes?
Devaiah’s latest effort is Amazon Prime Video’s series Afsos, which is out on February 7. Written by Dibya Chatterjee and Anirban Dasgupta, Afsos follows Devaiah’s Nakul, a clinically depressed writer who hires an assassin (Heeba Shah) to kill him after 11 failed suicide attempts. Things go awry when Nakul wants to abort the mission after developing feelings for his therapist (Anjali Patil).
“Sometimes, you suffer more in your imagination than reality,” the 41-year-old actor said about Nakul. The insecure, middle-class writer is similar to his sexually obsessed character Mandar Ponkshe in Harshvardhan Kulkarni’s Hunterrr (2015). Both are what he calls the “average Ramu”. Devaiah added, “What made Mandar special was him sleeping around to feel good about himself. What makes Nakul special are the circumstances he gets into for his glum outlook on life.”
Afsos (2020).
Devaiah is coming straight off from praise for his role of a village strongman-turned-alpha zombie in Dibakar Banerjee’s installment in Netflix’s anthology horror film Ghost Stories. Despite being in the movies since 2011, the 10-minute role, of which nine minutes are spent under unrecognisable make-up, has earned him some of the best reviews of his career. Devaiah had no expectations from the film and wasn’t sure he would be recognised at all, but he now wonders why the role has drawn so much attention.
“Perhaps, though everything seems very sudden, what I had been doing for so many years created a positive impression in people’s minds, so the effect was cumulative,” he said. “I would keep getting messages from my audience, that I am underrated and underutilised. Perhaps, with Ghost Stories, people thought I have got what I deserve.”
Off the top of his head, Devaiah remembers Karan Johar and Reema Kagti praising him for his ghoulish act. At least one of those handshakes materialised in a role: Devaiah is playing a policeman in Kagti’s Rajasthan-set web series Fallen, alongside Sohum Shah and Sonakshi Sinha.
Gulshan Devaiah in Ghost Stories (2020). Courtesy Netflix.
Devaiah’s career began with morally grey or outright negative roles in low-to-mid-budget productions such as That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011), Dum Maaro Dum (2011), Shaitan (2011), and Hate Story (2012). He played similar roles in commercial projects such as Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013) and Commando 3 (2019).
In between, he played diverse characters, including the double role of a don and a martial arts teacher in Vasan Bala’s Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (2018) and a serial womaniser in Hunterrr, a role that his fans still keep talking about.
Despite leading-man ambitions and an impressive resume, he didn’t quite hit the sweet star-actor spot. Devaiah attributes this to being clueless about converting the attention he received “between 2011 and 2013” to “hustle”.
“The only thing I knew to do was good work,” Devaiah said. “The others after me were better at hustling like Ayushmann Khurrana, Vicky Kaushal, Rajkummar Rao. I am learning from them.”
Is being good not good enough? “Idealism has its place but you also have to be practical,” Devaiah explained. “I don’t want to be dragged down thinking I am so good and hardworking but I didn’t get the chances I deserve. I see disappointment and disillusionment in veteran actors who’ve been around for 30-40 years. I constantly think about what am I not doing, where am I missing out. Sometimes, in an interview, I might have the right answers, but not the right attitude. That might be enough for someone to not choose me for a role. I keep these things in mind.”
Gulshan Devaiah as Jimmy and Karate Mani in Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (2019).
Unlike his Afsos character, Devaiah is neither overtly bogged down by missed opportunities nor is he chasing big-banner productions. Most of his films have been made on limited budgets.
“Small banner, big banner is secondary for me,” Devaiah said. “My goal in life is to do roles through which I can challenge myself, surprise audiences. I don’t look for validation from a big director or big production house. The legacy I want to leave behind is of me being a versatile actor. Hunterrr or Mard were not big banner projects. But the connection I made with the audience with those roles is what I aim for.”
Some of Devaiah’s projects have either not been released or have gone straight to streaming platforms, which are not the best places for small movies to find audiences. There’s still no release date for Bala’s eight-year-old Peddlers. Kanishk Varma’s Hindi-Marathi bilingual thriller Daav/Haadsa, which stars Devaiah as a policeman, remains in the cans. The much-delayed Cabaret went straight to Zee5, while CandyFlip was released on Netflix.
But he cannot pick films based on the ability or willingness of their makers to release them, Devaiah said. He cited the example of Tarun Mansukhani’s Drive. “Did anyone expect a Dharma film to go straight to OTT?” he said. “Shit happens man, I can’t worry about it. I can’t even put it in my contract that the film must be released. I can only tackle things I have control of, like my film choices or performances.”
Gulshan Devaiah in Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013). Courtesy Bhansali Productions/Eros International.
Besides Fallen, Devaiah has nothing on his plate that he can talk about except a thriller Hinterland, announced long ago but yet to be shot. The film, also starring Manoj Bajpayee, “is about a man chasing another man, and how the system is rigged in a way that a conflict between two parties helps a third party”, he said.
Devaiah prefers to work on one project at a time. “Be it a three-day shoot or a 300-day shoot, if I can, I only eat, sleep, think one thing at a time,” he said. “I would say my work ethic of putting 100% attention to something is my biggest strength.”
Many acclaimed roles, a few commercial successes, and yet his best role didn’t even make a blip on the radar. “Hunterrr is the only brand value I have actually,” he said. “People were attracted to the nostalgia of the film. Everyone had one friend, brother, or cousin, who was like Mandar. Everyone, post-puberty, tried the sort of things Mandar did in the film. I definitely related to the things happening in his life, if not him exactly. Many women told me that they also related to the events in the film.”
Chori Chori, Hunterrr (2015).
source: http://www.scroll.in / Scroll.in / Home> The Reel> On the Actor’s Trail / by Devarshi Ghosh / February 05th, 2020
UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Fly Higher: Charlie Parker At 100 on Thursday, March 26 at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall. Tickets starting at $28 are available now at cap.ucla.edu, 310-825-2101 and the Royce Hall box office.
Charlie “Bird” Parker was a legendary Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented bebop. This year marks the 100th year since the legend’s birth and therefore is cause for celebration. Acclaimed co-musical directors Rudresh Mahanthappa and Terri Lyne Carrington honor Charlie Parker’s centennial year by showcasing his uncompromising musical joy, humor and beauty, mining his deep repertoire and showcasing new, modern compositions.
Hailed by Pitchfork as “jaw-dropping” and saxophonist of the year for seven years running in Downbeat, Rudresh Mahanthappa is a 21st-century voice of jazz. Since his emergence in the late ’90s, Mahanthappa harnesses the power of the horn to create a rhythmic urgency and showcases an astonishing facility. In addition to creating Fly Higher with Carrington, Mahanthappa is the Director of Jazz at Princeton University.
Carrington returns to the Royce Hall stage for the second CAP UCLA season in a row. A three-time Grammy Award-winning drummer, Carrington has performed on over 100 recordings and just released Waiting Game this past November with her band Social Science. Last year, Carrington was acknowledged for her contributions to jazz with the Doris Duke Artist Award. Fly Higher is no exception as a significant contribution.
This performance concludes CAP UCLA’s Jazz series for the 2019-20 season. For more shows, please visit cap.ucla.edu/calendar.
CAP UCLA presents
Fly Higher: Charlie Parker at 100
Thursday, March 26 at 8 p.m.
Royce Hall, UCLA
10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Program:
Fly Higher: Charlie Parker at 100 celebrates one of the most innovative and influential artists in modern musical history and examines his impact on pop, hip hop, rap, rock and jazz. Rather than imitating the original, Fly Higher strives to forward the art form by developing new perspectives on tradition.
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Fly Higher: Charlie Parker At 100 features:
The land levelled to construct the women’s first grade college in Madikeri.
The government women’s first grade college in Madikeri will finally get its own building. The work on levelling the land for the construction of the building has commenced.
The college was started five years ago in the district headquarters and was functioning from Yuva Bhavana building of the Jilla Yuva Okkuta.
Following a request by MLA Appachu Ranjan, the state government has sanctioned a piece of land behind Gowda Samaja in Madikeri. The two-floor building will come up on a 70-cent site, said sources from Collegiate Education.
The authorities have been searching for suitable land for the college building for the last five years. Owing to a stay order from the Supreme Court, the land identified near Dasavala Road could not be utilised.
The land identified at Karnangeri was damaged in the natural calamity. Finally, it was decided to use the land earmarked for the construction of quarters for the Department of Public Instruction deputy director, said college principal D J Javarappa.
He said the college building is likely to be made available in 2021 academic year. A sum of Rs 4 crore has been released for the building. As many as 200 students in degree college and 400 students in composite college are pursuing their studies.
The new college building will have classrooms on each floor. In addition, it will have a library and parking on the ground floor. The first floor of the building will house arts stream and the second floor will be earmarked for the commerce department.
The government is also mulling over construction of a composite college building near Field Marshal Cariappa Auditorium near Junior College premises. About 60 cents of land has been identified for the purpose.
Jilla Yuva Okkuta President P P Sukumar said that with the functioning of the college from its building has affected activities of the Okkuta.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> News> State> Mangaluru / by Adithya K A / DHNS, Madikeri / February 02nd, 2020
Capt (retd) G S Rajaram, his wife and mother were felicitated during a marriage function at Omkara Sadana in Madikeri on Sunday.
Setting an example, family members and friends of an ex-serviceman felicitated him during a marriage programme held in Madikeri on Sunday.
Captain (retd) G S Rajaram, son of Satyanarayana and Indira, is an ex-serviceman who served in the Indian Army for 30 years. He worked in various parts of the country.
After attaining superannuation recently, he had returned to his native village.
The gesture by Rajaram’s relatives has gathered huge appreciation by the people and the video of the felicitation given to him during the marriage function is being circulated on social media.
The marriage function of Nikhil Bhat and Soumyashree was held in Omkara Sadana in Madikeri. The groom’s mother is the sister of Rajaram.
The ex-serviceman, along with his wife G R Savitha and mother Indira, were felicitated by former DGP Timmappaiah Madiwal and entrepreneur S G Srinivas, in the presence of relatives and friends.
Speaking on the occasion, Capt (retd) G S Rajaram said that his 30 years service to the Indian Army has been an accomplishment. The soldiers think more about their country than their family.
Major (retd) Venkatagiri and ex-serviceman Kiggalu Girish were present.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> State> Mangaluru / by Adithya K A / DHNS, Madikeri / February 02nd, 2020
The Kodagu District Administration and the Department of Horticulture will conduct a Flower Show at Raja’s Seat in Madikeri from Feb. 7 to 10 in order to attract tourists, an official statement said. A special feature of the Flower Show will be the depiction of the lifestyle and traditions of Kodavas through floral replicas of “Kodagu Ainmane” or ancestral home.
According to the statement, this is to promote and create awareness of the lifestyle, culture and traditions of Kodavas to the present generation. Nearly 25 species of flowers and about 10,000 plants will be part of the show with floral decorations depicting the cultural facets of Kodagu.
Horticulture Department officials said the topiaries (practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful) will be brought for the festival.
In a bid to attract the children, floral statues depicting well-known personalities, will be created and serve as a selfie point for the visitors.
There will be cultural programmes in the evening on all the days of the Flower Show besides floral rangoli competition for women. Stalls will be put up for sale of handicraft items, the statement added.
As part of the Flower Show, thousands of flower pots are being arranged at Raja’s Seat. Flower pots and a large variety of flowers including African marigold, Celosia, Lady Lace, Gladiolus, Gerbera, Anthurium, Bird of Paradise, Carnations, Lilium, Tuberose, Orchids, Stasis, Chrysanthemum, and Limonium will attract visitors. Exclusive selfie spots will be created for tourists to click selfies and share on social media. Works are underway at Raja’s Seat.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / January 31st, 2020
Seminar, biopic release to mark the centenary year of scholar Dr. I.M. Muthanna
Bengaluru:
Kodagu’s most acclaimed poet, Appachcha Kavi’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations will be held in New Delhi.
This decision was taken by members of Kendra Sahitya Academy, which had convened a meeting recently at its regional office in Bengaluru under the Chairmanship of Kannada writer Dr. Chandrashekar Kambar.
The Academy, in association with Delhi Karnataka Sangha, Delhi Kodava Samaja and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), will jointly organise the 150th birth anniversary celebration of Appachcha Kavi.
On this occasion, to mark the centenary year of Dr. I.M. Muthanna, noted Indian writer and scholar, a seminar will be held and a biopic on the great writer will also be released.
Dr. I.M. Muthanna was a noted Indian writer, scholar and translator who wrote in English, Kannada and Kodava languages and had translated four plays of Appachcha Kavi to Kannada.
During the meeting, Academy member submitted a proposal to publish the biopic and plays of Dr. Muthanna.
Academy Convenors Dr. Siddalingaiah, Dr. Sarooj Katkar, Prof. H.S. Shivaprakash and others were present at the meeting.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / January 29th, 2020
Find out how Orange County transformed to Evolve Back Luxury Resorts
Luxury Lily Pool Villas at Evolve Back Resort in Coorg, Photo Credit: Evolve Back Luxury Resorts
Evolve Back started life as Orange County. How did it all begin?
We are from Kerala, although we’ve been in Karnataka for close to 100 years. Primarily, we are a family of planters, growing coffee, rubber, pepper, cashew and so on. We still have plantations in different parts of south India. It’s a small family of 11 children (laughs): seven boys and four girls. I’m the seventh boy.
Coorg was not a tourist destination when we were growing up. But we used to go there for holidays and found the weather wonderful and the place beautiful. Our estate in Chikkana Halli had a great location by the Kaveri. So we thought we could set up something. Since we used to grow oranges, we decided to call it Orange County. This was in 1994. At that point we had not envisaged multiple resorts.
Why did you rebrand ?
In 1999, we started going for international travel exhibitions. That’s when we realised our brand name had a strong association with California. The first resort did well and in 2000 we started thinking of the second. Work started in 2005 and we opened Orange County Kabini in 2007.
In 2005, we did an internal workshop on branding, where we came up with our ‘spirit of the land’ concept. All our experiences try to capture the localness of the destination. Our guests stay in luxury but experience the local culture. But it was a while before we rebranded.
Jose T. Ramapuram
Tell us more about ‘spirit of the land’.
Our managing director is an architect. So when we launch a property he studies the life of the place: people, architecture, food, clothes, etc. All these elements are blended in with luxury to create our experiences.
So the architecture of our Kabini property is inspired by the Kuruba tribes of the region. A name like Orange County wouldn’t really do justice to it. We next went to Hampi, where we built a palace inspired by the architecture of the Vijayanagara empire. We also had plans to expand outside of India. That’s when we took a call to rebrand as ‘Evolve Back’, which is more in sync with our philosophy. As we evolve as human beings, we look back and draw inspiration from the past, when we had cleaner air, cleaner food, cleaner water. The new identity was adopted in 2017.
What are some of your brand values?
Our brand values are well defined. They are eco-sensitivity, straight-from-the-heart, constant innovation, elegance, attention to detail, going the extra mile.
When we enter a destination, we want to be the best there. We don’t go to places where there are too many players. We also like our properties to be small and intimate.
What are some of the responsible tourism practices you’ve adopted?
We have always had a deep connection with the land. I first heard of responsible tourism at WTM in London in 2002. As I studied more, I realised we were already doing this stuff. We just hadn’t formalised it. So in 2006-2007, we did. Environment, community and culture are the three areas we focus on.
When we acquired Kabini it was agricultural land. We reforested it with local species and brought the biodiversity back. We banned all plastic bottles in 2005. The roof in Hampi has solar panels. We’ve invested in wind power.
In Coorg, we have adopted the local government school, besides launching our own state-of-the-art pre-school. After the kids are through with the pre-school, we will sponsor and place them in good schools. We have a policy of 60 per cent local employment and try to improve staff quality through education.
Not one drop of water at any of our hotels is let out. It’s all treated and used for gardening. We have an onsite waste segregation programme and 97 per cent of our waste is either recycled in-house or sent out to a proper recycling centre.
Where are you opening next?
We’ve just acquired a private game reserve in Botswana spread over 110 sq km. It’s in a pristine location, very exclusive. We’ll upgrade it before lending the Evolve Back name to it. Mandu and Bhutan are also on the cards.
You cannot go into any place without having a negative impact. If we’re going into a destination, we always try to contribute more positives. We believe in low-impact, high-end tourism. That’s why we are looking forward to our Bhutan project. The country is so forward thinking it’s trying to bring its annual tourist arrivals of 500,000 down to 400,000.
Jose T. Ramapuram is the executive director at Evolve Back
INFORMATION: Evolve Back, 2nd floor, St. Patrick’s business complex, 21, Museum road, Bengaluru; info@evolveback.com, evolveback.com
source: http://www.outlookindia.com / Outlook Traveller / Home> Travel News> Story / by Amit Dixit / January 29th, 2020
