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Bengaluru: Come Ugadi and Deepavali festivals, come postal greeting cards by Satyanarayana Nadig, a veteran journalist, educationist, and social worker, involved with literary and cultural activities and whatnot. Writing letters is a forgotten practice of the bygone era. Most kids of the present generation haven't even seen the yellow postcards of the Posts and Telegraphs Department of the Union Government. However, Satyanarayana Nadig has made it a religious practice to post beautifully handwritten postcards with festival greetings. An active nonagenarian: This has been the practice of the nonagenarian Satyanarayana Nadig for several decades and he hasn't desisted from the fond habit despite his advanced age. Srivatsa Nadig, senior scribe and his son informs-"Age hasn't become a hindrance to my father. Even at this age, he leads an independent life doing the daily chores all on his own. Only recently, he has been down with some peculiar ailment and is undergoing tr...

Bengaluru: Glowing tributes were paid to yesteryear veteran cartoonist late Ashwathnarayan popularly known as Ashwath by his family members and close relatives at an austere function here. The family also used the opportunity to display his cartoons apart from releasing a booklet containing a collection of his published pocket cartoons. Ashwath chose his style: BG Gujjarappa, a sexagenerian cartoonist ranking one among the top 100 cartoonists of the world, speaking on the occasion showered praises on the contribution of Ashwath. He opined-"When other senior cartoonists like R Murthy of Deccan Herald and Prajavani among others were impressed and influenced by legendary Sir David Alexander Cecil Low, Ashwath chose his inimitable style to draw cartoons". It may be recalled here that David Low remained an ideal model for cartoonists worldwide for decades. A New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist, David Low lived and worked in the United Kingdom and was a self-taught ...