Month: December 2020

This new card game created by two Bengalurubased women, who hail from Kerala, celebrates Malayali culture, Mollywood and more

Called Malayali Aano, the new game by Sona Zainab Harris and Rose Mary Jacob is a cardbased game that draws heavily from Malayali pop culture, popular phrases, movie characters, food, stereotypes and other such trivia.

Colonel John Wakefield, fondly known as ‘Papa Wakefield’ was one of India’s quiet, dedicated and effective wildlife defenders who turned wildlife tourism into a significant conservation tool.

Mysuru farmer shows how natural farming is fruitful and economically viable.

50-year-old farmer in a village in Karnataka has shown, like Japanese farmer Masanobu Fukuoka before him, that from “nothingness” can emerge beautiful forests and farms.

Krishnappa Dasappa Gowda’s  farm in Bannur village, T Narasipur taluk, looks less like a typical agricultural field, and more like a forest in all its wild glory.

He cultivates everything from teak and mango, to coffee, turmeric, ginger to paddy and sugarcane, using the technique of natural farming in his five acres of land, which he first encountered in 2005 when he met Maharashtrian farmer Subhash Palekar

Prakash Jogaraddi, a 38-year-old farmer from Savadi village of Ron taluk sold a quintal of dry chilli for Rs 41,101 at Gadag APMC.

It was the highest price ever for the commodity at the APMC here as the previous  high price was Rs 35,000 per quintal early this year.

The teacher, Ashok Undi, 40, informed the villagers about the “wonder in the sky” and asked them to assemble at the place where he had set up a high-power telescope.

• Former Bengaluru Police commissioner Bhaskar Rao, descendent of Mysore Lancers to lay wreath at JC Nagar, Near TV Tower