Mysore/Mysuru, Feb. 23 -- Mysore Literary Association, founded in 2016, aims to promote literary activities and conduct festivals to enrich English studies in the royal city. It has so far held numerous literary events including seven Mysuru Literary Fests under the Chairmanship of its Founder-President Prof. K.C. Belliappa, who is also the former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh.

With a population of five million in 1900, Mysore was the third-largest Princely State in India, and its Maharajas ranked among the most powerful political figures of the time, said Dr. Chandan Gowda, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Vidyashilp University.

He was delivering a talk on 'Romancing Development: The Mysore Episode'...