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‘Aam aadmi’ postman will now deliver orchids, pomegranate at your doorstep

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After the success of mango delivery, the postman will now deliver figs, pomegranate and guava at your doorstep.

Picture for representation purpose | Express
Picture for representation purpose | Express

Bengaluru :

After the success of mango delivery, the postman will now deliver figs, pomegranate and guava at your doorstep. The Karnataka State Mango Development and Marketing Corporation Limited (KSMDMCL) in association with India Post, will arrange for the fruits to be picked up directly from the farmers and sent to your home. The department will also supply live phalaenopsis orchid plants neatly packed.

“Our mango supply scheme, started this season, was a big hit and it benefitted both farmers and the consumers. We were appreciated from both ends. We want to encourage other farmers too and help with supply of good quality, farm-grown fruits to the consumers directly,” said Dr C G Nagaraju, Managing Director, KSMDMCL.

He said the consumers can be cent per cent assured that the fruits will be pesticide-free and very fresh and tasty. As there won’t be any middlemen, the beneficiaries will be both consumers and farmers, he said.
The booking of the orders have started for which the consumer has to register with their address and phone number on http://karsirimangoes.karnataka.gov.in . And once the booking is made by paying online, a message is sent to the farm owner who then brings the order to the General Post Office.
“The farmers are also trained on how to do the packing and also when to harvest the fruits. Along with their own storage spaces we also have packhouses in Maadhikere from where the packages will be dispatched to respective post offices. We have tied up with the postal department and they have been very encouraging,” he said.

While the price will be very close to market rates, the director said that there will be extra charges only for the packing and the courier.

The department started the supply of guava on October 4; pomegranate and fig will be supplied from November 18. The fruits will be delivered on every Tuesday and Friday.

A box of seven guavas will be Rs 160 and a box of 2kg pomegranate will cost Rs 300. The farm-fresh fruits will be procured from Ballari, Kolar, Bengaluru Rural and Chikkaballapur to begin with.
Interestingly, the live orchid flowering plants of different varieties including phalaenopsis orchid or Moth orchid will come in flower pannicles which can be used as table plants too. Two sticks will be packed safely in the pannicle and the plants can even grow indoors and will have excellent life, the officer said. The flower plants will come from Alur in Hassan.

One of the consumers who had ordered mango from the service expressed happiness and told TNIE, “I would be more than happy to order fruits and it’s exciting to know that even orchid plants will be delivered to the doorstep. Mangoes were really delicious with no trace of pesticide in it. I will register today itself,” said Deepthi Nagaraj, a homemaker.

The department which is limiting its supply to consumers in and around Bengaluru as of now, plans to soon extend the services to other tier-two cities.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Chetana Belagere / Express News Service / October 06th, 2019

A monument that celebrates Gandhi

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The Mahatma Gandhi statue at the Veera Soudha in Belagavi.
The Mahatma Gandhi statue at the Veera Soudha in Belagavi.

Veera Soudha commemorates the 34th Congress Session of 1924

The 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi will be celebrated in Belagavi on Wednesday at the Vijay Nagar Veera Soudha, a monument built to commemorate the 34th Congress Session in Belagavi in 1924.

The monument that encompasses a park, a well and a hall, has been cleaned and decorated. Ministers Lakshman Savadi and Shashikala Jolle will speak during the celebrations scheduled at the monument on Congress Road in Tilakwadi here on Wednesday morning.

The monument that encompasses a park, a well and a hall, has been cleaned and decorated. Ministers Lakshman Savadi and Shashikala Jolle will speak during the celebrations scheduled at the monument on Congress Road in Tilakwadi here on Wednesday morning.

The park stands at the venue of the 1924 Congress Session. The venue was named Vijay Nagar by the organisers of the conference, including Gangadhar Rao Deshpande and N.S. Hardikar. A temporary railway station was built at the venue to help delegates alight. A well was built through Shramdan to provide water for those attending the conference. The well still yields sweet, cool, potable water that is supplied to residents in the surrounding areas.

The park contains fruit and flower trees and has statues of deer and other animals. The main building has a series of photographs of the Session and Gandhiji’s interactions with the leaders of the Independence movement. He is seen with Mohammad Ali Jouhar, president of the 33th Session, and other leaders.

Gandhiji visited Belagavi (erstwhile Belgaum) three times. He attended the Bombay provincial conference of the Home Rule League in 1916, chaired the Congress Session in 1924 and spent 10 days in the Khadi and Village Industries Centre in Hudali village in 1937.

There are several monuments to the Father of the Nation in the district. The City Railway Station has a Charka installed atop its roof and a stone plaque. A pillar is erected in Shivaji Park near Kapileshwar Temple in the city apart from the Veera Soudha building. Gandhiji’s ashes are interred in Mugut Khan Hubballi, while the Khadi centre in Hudali is a living monument that celebrates the proponent of village industries.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Rishikesh Bahadur Desai / Belagavi – October 02nd, 2019

Brothers come up with visionary app to detect lazy eye

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In a bid to detect amblyobia faster in children, 16-year-old Vrishab Krishna and his 18-year-old brother, Biswesh Krishna from Bengaluru, have come out with an app called Kanna.

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Bengaluru :

In a bid to detect amblyobia faster in children, 16-year-old Vrishab Krishna and his 18-year-old brother, Biswesh Krishna from Bengaluru, have come out with an app called Kanna. Amblyopia, also known as lazy eye, is a visual development disorder where a person slowly loses vision leading to partial blindness. It affects almost 16 million children in India and over 103 million children from all over the world.

Vrishab used to suffer amblyopia as a child, and would have difficulty while climbing down stairs. Even while playing, he would have difficulty catching the ball. But Vrishab was lucky since his mother noticed his problem when he was four years old and got him tested. The diagnosis revealed his lazy eye condition. Having received treatment in time, Vrishab has been able to see perfectly with both his eyes.
A year ago, the duo decided to study amblyopia and come up with a solution. As they worked on the project, they came up with an app wherein a child affected with the condition will just have to click two images and upload it onto the app to determine whether they have a lazy eye or not. “We wanted an accessible way to help people figure out if they have the condition. And what better than a smart phone which everyone uses,” said Vrishab.

Using patent pending image processing and machine learning algorithms, they calculate one’s risk of having a lazy eye. “After testing, we found that our algorithm to calculate amblyopia is accurate. The child will have to click one image in low light and the other in ambient light. After uploading the images, the results will be out immediately,” said Vrishab.

The duo even reached out to Sankara Eye Hospital and performed a pilot test, and the hospital is now using the device. “Three years ago, we had carried out a survey on amblyopia in Bengaluru and it showed that six percent of children in the city were at a risk. Detecting amblyopia during the critical period – that is before the age of eight – is crucial as complete treatment can be done. After that, it gets difficult as they don’t respond to visual acuity tests,” said Dr Kaushik Murali, Medical President, Quality & Education, Sankara Eye Hospital.

He added with this app will be useful for many. “Since this technique only requires access to a smartphone camera, it can be used both in rural and urban areas, and even allows for screening by untrained people,” Dr Murali added.The app is under clinical validation at Sankara Eye Hospital.

What is amblyopia?
Amblyopia, also known as lazy eye, is a visual development disorder where a person slowly loses vision leading to partial blindness. It affects almost 16 million children in India and over 103 million children all over the world.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Iffath Fathima / Express News Service / October 02nd, 2019

Saluting soldiers of yore: remembering the Battle of Haifa

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Proposals for restoration of the Memorial was submitted at the 101st Haifa Day Celebrations

For entrepreneur Uday Birje and financial analyst Praveen Maney, The 1918 Battle of Haifa is much more than just another historical event. They are the descendants of the soldiers of Mysore Lancers, who won a decisive victory over the Ottoman Turks and the Germans. “My great grandfather Raghunath Rao Birje was part of the Mysore Lancers. Mysuru Maharaja Nalvaji Krishnaraja Wadiyar sent his best soldiers—the Mysore, Jodhpur, and the Hyderabad Lancers— on the promise of Independence by the British,” says Uday.

In fact, the Mysuru Maharaja sent his brother-in-law Colonel J Desaraj Urs, and relatives Risaldar BP Krishne Urs and Captain A Lingaraj Urs to Haifa in Israel.

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Praveen says four of his ancestors fought in the Battle. “They were Venkata Rao Maney, Limbaji Pawar, Rajoji Kesarkar and Bhim Rao Talekar. Venkata Rao Maney passed away in the Battle of Allepo and his remains didn’t come to India. His body was buried in Israel and his name is written on the Haifa memorial in Delhi and Bengaluru. The other three descendants returned. One of the medals Limbaji Pawar won was the Indian Distinguished Services Medal for the bravery he displayed in the Battle of Haifa.”

Though much of the memorabilia has been lost, the families have maintained some of them, including medals and swords. “After the War, many people didn’t return, while some did. Those who did spread out to other villages. Some settled within Bengaluru in places around the Mysore Lancers cantonment in Munnireddy Palya (present JC Nagar), Ganga Nagar, Malleswaram, etc.,” says Uday

Uday has a replica of the honour roll by King George, which was given to his great grandmother while Praveen’s family is in possession of a medal, and a sword taken from a German soldier.

The Ottoman Turks and Germans had superior weapons such as machine guns whereas the Mysore Lancers possessed only swords and lancers. It was sheer courage and excellent battle strategy that led to the victory of the Mysore Lancers.

Once the soldiers returned, their contributions were recognised and rewarded by Nalvaji Krishnaraja Wadiyar. It was not until last year that the Battle of Haifa received national recognition. 100 years of the Battle was celebrated last year. The consequence was the renaming of Teen Murti Marg in Delhi—where there is a Haifa Memorial—to Teen Murti Haifa Marg.

At the 101st celebration held at Mysore Lancers Memorial, JC Nagar, on September 23, a formal proposal was submitted by Yashaswini Sharma, urban historian and architect, to Commissioner of Police Bhaskar Rao and corporator of JC Nagar Ganesh Rao Maney.

“The World War I memorial, which is part of the city’s tangible heritage and sets the context for the neighbourhood, is now in need of urgent attention,” says Yashaswini.

“One step of the base stands embedded inside the road, and the circle with grill barricade is too small. We have submitted a proposal for two granite plaques with the names of all the soldiers of the Mysore Lancers around an equestrian statue; and an enlargement of the Memorial circle and redesign of the grill work.

The proposed design of the grill work is inspired by the decorations of the Mysore Lancers, which includes the Mysore Royal emblem of Gandabherunda. There is bit of paint on the pillar which needs to be cleaned out—the families of the martyrs and some NGOs had earlier cleaned the Memorial, but it requires periodic maintenance. The proposed equestrian statue — Mysore Lancer soldier astride a horse — will be in metal, and we hope this can be placed in the circle right behind the War Memorial and that both the statue and the circle could be connected by a cobbled pathway. This equestrian statue will be set on a pedestal that resembles the design of the World War I Memorial and will be encircled by stone benches so that the families of martyrs can find peace and spend some time there while they pay their respects,” adds Yashaswini.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Society> History & Culture / by Sravasti Datta / September 30th, 2019

IIMB bags top spot in QS MBA Rankings 2020

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The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB) has retained the number one spot in the full-time two-year Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in the country in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Masters in Management (MiM) Rankings – 2020 released on Thursday.

Globally, it was in the top 50, with a rank of 26.

In the one-year full-time MBA programme, IIMB has improved its ranking from 71 in 2019 to 44 in 2020 globally in the QS rankings.

“The QS rankings prove that the various initiatives that we have undertaken at IIMB, in terms of graduate employability, entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes, and thought leadership are in the right direction,” said IIMB Director G. Raghuram in a press release.

QS, which conducted the rankings, has featured 250 business schools across the world for rankings.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by Staff Reporter / September 27th, 2019

Josh runs high for these NCC girl cadets returning from camp in Delhi

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These cadets, from the Karnataka and Goa directorate of the NCC, placed eighth in the All India Thal Sainik Camp.

Students were not affected by the academic lag of three months, and were confident of completing their lessons with additional classes.
Students were not affected by the academic lag of three months, and were confident of completing their lessons with additional classes.

Bengaluru :

The energy was high among the 40 teenagers who represented Karnataka and Goa at the national Thal Sainik Camp in Delhi. The camp was held for 90 days.

These cadets, from the Karnataka and Goa directorate of the NCC, placed eighth in the All India Thal Sainik Camp. While some of these girls took up the rigorous 90-odd day training just for their of the NCC, others saw it as their breakthrough in to the Defence.”
I want to join the Army. We got to experience a lot in these 90 days, but the biggest takeaway was the discipline and personality grooming we were exposed to. There were times we had to wake up at 3:30 am to prepare for the line area competition,” said Aishwarya, a student of Mount Carmel College, Benglauru.

Maansi A Dixith, who won a silver medal in public speaking, judging distances and field signals, said, “More than 500 students were screened before the directorate picked us. A constant reminder of this kept me afloat. Most of my friends did not make it.”

For Sgt Soudamini Behera, who won a silver for shooting, wearing a uniform was a way to honour her father.

“Seeing my father, a railway employee, in uniform made me aspire to wear one too. With a passion for adventure, I pushed myself to hold a heavy rifle. Every moment was ‘now or never’ at the camp,” she said.

Students were not affected by the academic lag of three months, and were confident of completing their lessons with additional classes. Deputy Director General NCC Lalith Kumar assured support.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Pearl Maria D’Souza / Express News Service / September 30th, 2019

Mahatma’s ashes tell the tale of freedom struggle

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Efforts on to make Gandhian values immortal

The place which hosts Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes at Kudligi in Ballari | Express
The place which hosts Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes at Kudligi in Ballari | Express

Kudligi :

The tiny town of Kudligi is taking big steps to remind people about the Gandhian way of life, with the memorial holding the ashes (Chitha Bhasma) of the Father of the Nation set to get a facelift after 60 years.

It started as a dream to educate people about Gandhism — his ideology and Spartan way of life — by local teacher and freedom fighter Bindu Madhav. It is now taking shape with the help of the district administration, which earmarked a budget of Rs 2 crore from the district mining fund. Considered South India’s only such mortal remains of Mahatma Gandhi, the story of Chitha Bhasma in Ballari district’s Kudligi town began in the cells of Vellore jail in the early 1940s.

“Bindu Madhav wanted to keep Gandhian values eternal so that young minds were inspired by them, and wanted to do something about this. Being a freedom fighter, he was imprisoned in Vellore jail along with Tekur Subramanya, who became the first Member of Parliament from then Bellary, former President of India R Venkataraman and another freedom fighter, Vaddi Venkob Rao. However, he could fulfil his dream only after the death of the Mahatma,” said T Govind Vittal, secretary, Gandhi Bhavan, Ballari.

After the country attained freedom, Bindu Madhav was released from jail and appointed physical education teacher. He was posted to Kottur and then Kudligi. It was then that Gandhiji was assassinated. Madhav began his efforts to make Gandhian values immortal.

“Kudligi being the most backward place in Ballari district, he intended to make it a Wardha — Gandhiji’s second ashram for his Chitha Bhasma,” said Vittal.

Precious package reaches Kudligi
How the ashes reached Kudligi is an interesting story. Madhav spoke about his plan to Tekur Subramanya, who was then Congress parliamentary secretary. Tekur was also interested and ensured that the ashes were collected and brought to Chennai through Omandur Ramaswamy Reddy, the then treasurer of the Congress

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From there, the ashes were sent through Diggavi Ranganathachar, chief engineer in the Maratha and Southern Madras (MSM) Railways, now called Southern Railways. Bindu Madhav organised locals like G Venkob Rao, a landlord, to gain access to the land to host the remains. He named the high school ground Mahadeva Mailara Kreedangana, and had the Chitha Bhasma placed here.

The Memorial

A memorial was also constructed and inaugurated by Ramanand Teertha, who, incidentally, was proclaimed the guru of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.
Every known personality, right from Col Manjappa to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, former Chief Minister of Karnataka Kengal Hanumanthiah, MS Sukadia and others have visited the place, which has acquired historic significance.

The dilapidated building was demolished in 2018 to build a new structure.  The new memorial hall coming up at the place will host a beautiful garden with lawns, a gallery with pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, which include sepia frames from his childhood to the making of the Mahatma — his struggle for Indian Independence. An audio-visual centre is also part of the project. Work is on in full swing.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Karnataka / by Subhash Chandra N S / Express News Service / September 29th, 2019

IISc: Trapping, moving nanoparticles with light

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Plasmonic tweezers are limited by the fact that they are fixed in space and can therefore only trap objects that come close to them.

Researchers at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have developed a technique to trap and move tiny objects in the nanoscale using optical “tweezers” employing light. This is a tool that can be used to pick and move small suspended particles even including cells. This research has been published in Nature Communications.

Optical tweezers have been known for about thirty years now and are used in biology to hold and manipulate particles; however, they have a limitation when it comes to nanosized particles. This was partly solved with the development of “plasmonic tweezer” which works on the principle that when a disc of noble metal, like gold, is illuminated with light, it creates an electromagnetic field around the disc. This field can attract and hold on to tiny particles.

Plasmonic tweezers are limited by the fact that they are fixed in space and can therefore only trap objects that come close to them. Though the team, in an earlier work, showed that such plasmonic tweezers could be manoeuvred with a combination of light and magnetic fields, they could not apply the technique to some types of colloids.

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In the present work, they overcome this limitation by developing a method that uses only optical force. They integrate a silver nanodisc with a microrod made of glass and the combination can be manipulated using laser beams alone. This “tweezer-in-a-tweezer” approach can trap objects of about 40 nanometres in size, using a single laser beam. This is the typical size of a virus or DNA. “The optical tweezer holds the plasmonic tweezer and the plasmonic tweezers trap our target nanoparticles, therefore tweezer (plasmonic) in tweezer (optical),” says Souvik Ghosh, first author of the paper.

As the size of any colloidal particle decreases, for instance from micro-scale to nano-scale, the movement due to Brownian motion or random fluctuation increases. “Therefore, holding a single silver nanodisc with a focused laser beam (the optical tweezer) is challenging and needs high laser intensity to generate enough force to overcome the fluctuations,” explains Ghosh. If, in order to reduce the required laser intensity, the size of the disc were reduced, the plasmonic properties would be lost. Therefore, the team attached a dielectric microrod made of glass which while preserving the plasmonic property, reduces the thermal fluctuations by an order of magnitude. “The intensity required is about 100 times lower that what a regular optical tweezer typically uses to hold an object of similar dimensions,” he explains.

“The technique is ready for real world applications,” says Prof. Ambarish Ghosh, in whose lab the research was carried out. “Simplicity and ease of implementation are the biggest USPs for this device. It is patented and we are already in discussion with a company for licensing.”

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sci-Tech> Science / by Shubashree Desikan / September 28th, 2019

Lord Mountbatten’s Car In Dasara Vintage Car Rally

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50 Vintage beauties will start from Raj Bhavan tomorrow; will be in city till Oct. 2 

Mysuru:

A two-litre 1937 Sunbeam Talbot, the only car in India previously owned by Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, will be displayed during the Vintage Car Rally organised as part of Dasara celebrations.

The car is currently owned by Sabena Prakash and the Vintage beauty will be brought  from Bengaluru on Sept. 29 (tomorrow). Along with Lord Mountbatten’s car, 49 other vintage beauties will take a tour of the city for three days.

Mysureans will have an opportunity to see these classic cars in the event organised by Federation of Historic Vehicles of India (FHVI) from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. The Federation will bring over 50 vintage and classic cars and motorcycles and the rally will be flagged off from Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru by Governor Vajubhai Vala at 9 am tomorrow.

A rare picture of the last Governor General of India, Earl Mountbatten with his wife and Pandit Nehru, near Kufri (Himachal Pradesh) heading to Narkanda in the 1940s.
A rare picture of the last Governor General of India, Earl Mountbatten with his wife and Pandit Nehru, near Kufri (Himachal Pradesh) heading to Narkanda in the 1940s.

The rally will arrive in the city and pass through Mysuru’s historic monuments tomorrow evening, after which the vehicles will be parked in front of the Mysore Palace. Prominent personalities from royal families and well-known industrialists from business houses in India and Sri Lanka will be part of this rally.

It is FHVI’s second edition and it is the only all India Federation of Vintage and Classic Cars associated with the International body of Historic Vehicles FIVA, official partner of UNESCO.  It has at present nearly 2,000 members and about 10,000 Vintage and Classic Cars, Bikes and Utilitarian Vehicles.

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The FHVI has taken part in Dasara procession for several years and now it has made it an annual event from last year with the help of Government of Karnataka, Department of Tourism and Department of Forests.

Vintage cars from the 1920s to 1980s like Sunbeam, Mercedes, MG’s, Jaguars, Fords, Dodge-Brothers, Buicks, Chevrolet’s, Morris’s, Austin’s, Alfa Romeo’s, Triumph and Lincoln will be part of this vintage car rally. A Mercedes 170 V Tourer, owned by Bri Ponnambalan, Studebaker Commander Tourer owned by Clive, Buick Super 8 owned by Rohan Fernando, Mercedes Ponton 180 owned by Naresha Subramanyam and MG GT owned by Megara Alwsi are some of the cars being showcased.

Dr. Ravi Prakash, President of FHVI, said, “A total of 50 entrants are coming from overseas and across India and Karnataka. There would be 125 participants. This year the prominent car will be 1937 Sunbeam Talbot, 2-litre, the only car in India previously owned by Lord Mountbatten.”

Historic motorcycles will be in the lead. The vehicles have to move in the city between 30kmph and 40kmph and on the outskirts between 60kmph and 70kmph, he added.

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Participants will stay at the Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel and other private hotels in Mysuru till Oct. 2. On Monday, Sept. 30, participants will be driving to Chamundi Hills for the Darshan of Goddess Chamundeshwari and later will be visiting Bandipur Tiger Reserve. On Oct. 1, participants will have a ‘Pagal Gymkhana’ at the Lalitha Mahal Grounds after which they will be driving to the Krishna Raja Sagar Dam and return to Bengaluru in the evening.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / September 28th, 2019

 

Bengaluru girls shine at national beauty pageant

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The Grand Finale of  Mrs.India Pride Of Nation Ravishing comprised finalists chosen from around 4,500 participants who appeared for auditions from various parts of the country.

Prathima David (Left) and Esther Bernard
Prathima David (Left) and Esther Bernard

Bengaluru :

The Grand Finale of Mrs India Pride Of Nation Ravishing comprised finalists chosen from around 4,500 participants who appeared for auditions from various parts of the country. Presented by Glamour Gurgaon, the third edition saw Bengaluru girls Prathima David and  Esther Bernard emerge victoriously. While Esther Bernard bagged the title of Mrs India Pride Of Nation 2019 – Face of South, Prathima David went on to secure the first runner-up spot in Mrs India Pride Of Nation Ravishing with cine stars Padmini Kolhapure and Nayani Dixit as part of the jury panel.

David (37), a yoga trainer by profession, was born in Kodagu and went on to quit her corporate job to complete her International Teachers Training course in Yoga, specialising in Hatha Yoga. Overcoming obstacles with a positive frame of mind, she went on to set-up her own yoga studio called Abhisarga where she continues to focus on improving health and quality of life for women practising yoga under her guidance. Bernard (37) is an International Skater and Founder President of Esther Roller Skating Club with 25 National Championships, 3 Asian and 1 World Championship in roller skating.

The third edition of the beauty pageant was aimed towards creating breast cancer awareness, Barkha Nangia – Director, Glamour Gurgaon further added, “Mrs India Pride Of Nation 2019 is a step towards acknowledging a married woman’s contribution to her family and society and maintaining good health at the same time. Through this platform, we also empower these women by imparting knowledge about various health and wellness issues. This title is not just about beauty and talent but of substance with style, wisdom, passion and intelligence. All the contestants not only take care of themselves but also show active support in helping lesser-blessed women rise in life.”

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Express News Service / September 23rd, 2019