India, Sept. 14 -- By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

Our annual Dasara has since time immemorial, been an occasion for much celebration and joy across the length and breadth of our State, although its main nucleus has always been Namma Mysuru, the undisputed 'Jewel in The Crown' city of Karnataka.

This State festival has been coming and going with its own kind of clockwork regularity over the years, with very few exceptions, when its grandeur had to be toned down greatly due to some exigencies, the most recent being the Covid-19 pandemic.

Even as I remember, this has also happened on a couple of occasions, in my childhood, especially during war times. But the earliest known record of the Dasara having been completely cancelled was in the yea...