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Bengaluru:  Ravindra Hadagali is a resident of Shivapur Colony, off Gokul Road in Hubballi. He retired as the  Office Superintendent of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)  Development and Facilitation Office, Hubballi, on 30th April 2025, after serving for around 40 years, or to be precise, 39 years and 10 months! Hobby of clay modelling:   Post his retirement,  Ravindra Hadagali  has some intention of pursuing hobbies, may not be passionate hobbies, but which can still be considered hobbies. His main hobby is clay modelling, which he has pursued for more than 30 years, making Ganapati idols for his own home every year. These days, he intends to transform it into something else, like doing portraits of people and advancing in clay modelling. Whistling songs, another hobby:   Apart from clay modelling,  Ravindra Hadagali's  other hobby or passion is singing, especially in that whistling, songs sung by whistling. He has been trying ...

Bengaluru :  Basavaprabhu Hoskeri, President of the Dharwad Taluk Kshetriya Seva Sangha(DTKSS), Working President of the Karnataka Vidyawardhaka Sangha, and General Secretary of the Gandhi Peace Foundation Centre, Dharwad, has been a staunch advocate  of Khadi. He has been serving as President of the Dharwad Taluk Seva Sangha for the past 15 years, following the demise of its founder, Shankar Kurtkoti.   Wearing Khadi since college days: He has been wearing Khadi ever since his college days and continues to do so to date. As he himself admits, he has been an ardent fan of wearing Khadi and only Khadi, right from his college days, when he came in contact with Chatra Yuva Sangarsha Vahini, the youth wing of Lok Nayak Jayprakash Narayan's Total Revolution movement, and later with the Gandhi Peace Foundation Centre of Dharwad.  Significance of the Garaga centre: Basavaprabhu Hoskeri informs that the Dharwad Taluk Kshetriya Seva Sangha (DTKSS) centre at Garaga villa...

Bengaluru:  Garaga is a village of historical significance, having given  birth to several prominent freedom fighters. Located 20 kilometres West of the Dharwad district headquarters and adjoining the neighbouring Belagavi district, the hitherto sleepy village of Dharwad Taluka had enough traces and influences of the border district.  Once notorious for lifestyle: Garaga and the surrounding villages were notorious for their lifestyle, intoxication, physical fights and murders over trivial issues and those connected with enemity, property and women. Well, all these misnomers are things of the past century and over a period of time, thanks to education, awareness, the establishment of the Belur Industrial Area, close by and migration to nearby and far-off towns and cities in search of green pastures, it is altogether a new Garaga now. A pilgrimage centre: Garaga, apart from a variety of reasons, is also a sought-after destination for the pilgrims of Sri Madiwaleshwara Mut...

Bengaluru: The services and contributions of Mrs Shakuntala Kurtkoti, a veteran freedom fighter, Life Worker, and Secretary of the Gandhi Peace Foundation Centre, Dharwad, were remembered on the eve of her centenary-year celebrations at the Karnataka Vidyawardhaka Sangha in Dharwad recently. Glowing tributes were paid to Mrs Shakuntala Kurtkoti by the guests and speakers in the day-long deliberations at the Dr Patil Puttappa auditorium. Meanwhile, all those who were associated with the Gandhi Peace Foundation Centre more than three decades ago rejoiced, recalling the good old days. Fundamental privilege of freedom at crossroads: Octogenarian S R Hiremath, founder president of the Samaja Parivarthana Samudaya NGO, a renowned environmentalist and anti-corruption activist, responsible for packing mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy to the gallows, delivered the keynote address. However, sadly, he dwelt upon a major portion of his speech on the current deliberations in the apex court over ...