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Bengaluru: The affordability of travel for Indian tourists has fueled rapid growth in both domestic and international tourism, with numbers rising significantly year after year. Official figures highlight this surge—in 2023, domestic tourist visits reached 2.5 billion, marking a 44.98% increase from 2022. Simultaneously, foreign tourist arrivals soared to 19.25 million, reflecting a remarkable 124.11% growth compared to the previous year. Tourism in India has undergone a significant transformation. Earlier, travel was centred on once-in-a-year family outings, but over time, leisure tourism to scenic destinations gained popularity, leading to a shift in travel patterns. With the rise of private tour operators, the monopoly of state-run tourism agencies diminished, resulting in a surge of independent players in the hospitality sector. This rapid expansion led to a boom in makeshift lodges and homestays, many of which remain unregulated and raise environmental concerns. For decades, Indi...

Bengaluru: The Podar International School in Kanakapura, recently organized its annual art exhibition to showcase the students' creativity through country-specific themes. The event evolved pivotal by giving a fillip to a variety of cultures by way of art, dance, and interactive activities.  The exhibition was designed around eight countries: Brazil, China, India, Russia, Greece, Japan, Spain, and Mexico were the countries chosen for the exhibition. Each country was represented by different grade levels. Interestingly, all the participating classes prepared an impressive display of sorts, including cultural elements like wearing traditional attire, dance performances, art activities, and cuisine presentations. Flag, Football and Carnival masks: In the Brazil-specific show, the participating kids of Grade 1 displayed the country's flag, and football in sports and the making of carnival masks as part of the art activity. Costumes, chopstick challenge: The traditional Chinese co...

Bengaluru: Mrs Bhagirathi Yenagi is now a Nonagenarian keeping her age as a parameter. But, when it comes to day-to-day activities she is much more active than the girls of the present era. She has a vast extended family with five children, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. But, she continues to remain a child in the heart as she is the first person to extend help whenever requested. In that way, she is an ideal example of the saying, advanced age is for the body and not the human mind! A hard worker since her childhood days: Mrs Bhagirathi Yenagi, despite her ripe age remains slim, and beautiful with a fair complexion. She had been very active since her childhood days helping her grandmother at home while her mother went to the paddy fields for work. She took responsibility for the household activities at a very tender age by feeding the cattle with fodder and water apart from fetching water from the lake and wells. She also used to acco...

The Kannada novel Bayala Beragu by late Mrs Sumangala S Mummigatti on the life of 12th century Kannadiga, Allama Prabhu, a maverick, a mystic, an enigmatic, an unfathomable, profound thinker, philosopher, debator and poet was honoured by the Karnataka Sahitya Academi Award as the 'Best Novel' for the year 2022. Largely incomprehensible intellectually, philosophically and spiritually: While the whole of Kannada literary academia for the last 6 or 8 decades, except a few scholars in the field, have struggled to figure out what this astounding personality of Allama Prabhu is, he continues to be largely incomprehensible intellectually, philosophically and spiritually. Most of his Vachanas are so figurative, metaphorical, allegorical and cryptic that they seem to be enigmas wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a puzzle, and placed in a baffling maze. Hence, this revolutionary 12th century thinker of Karnataka has hardly seen the light of the day. His unorthodox, original and ultramoder...