Many fashionable and flamboyant people, including the Maharajah of Mysore, had glamorized the product.

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The Mysore style is based on a fixed order of postures that students practice in a group setting at their own pace.

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The first hydro-electric power station was set up in Mysore in 1902.

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Now, Krishna is anxious to settle down and start a family, pressured by the rumors circulating among his village 40 kilometers south of Mysore.

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No Indian city has a 24-hour domestic water supply, though efforts are under way to provide it in Mysore and a few other places.

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Jain's youngest son, Atul, who is overseeing this expansion, discloses that they have been evaluating a bid on a tender to supply water to Mysore in southern India.

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After running away from his village with two rupees in his pocket, Mr Jois eventually managed to study at Mysore and then began to pass on what he had learnt.

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In the southern cities of Bangalore and Mysore, Wal-Mart partner Bharti Enterprises Ltd. in October opened retail stores without having licenses for rice, lentils, fruits and vegetables, a Bharti executive said.

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The gala, said the Mysore-style yoga teacher Eddie Stern, who was being honored Tuesday night, pretty much funds Bent on Learning's annual practicing budget, and pays for teachers to teach poses like shavasana throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.

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Among the highlights in the weeklong Pride of the South itinerary: the frescoed, gilded, and columned Mysore Palace, and the 12th-century Chennakesava Temple at Belur, 103 years in the making, with every inch covered in carvings of symbolic animals and episodes from epics.

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