Namaskara Hari
What are advertisements and commercials? How authentic must they be? How seriously should they be taken? How much leeway do advertisers and their agencies have in conveying the message? These …
What are advertisements and commercials? How authentic must they be? How seriously should they be taken? How much leeway do advertisers and their agencies have in conveying the message? These …
Returned by bus from Bangalore. I am not kidding, but I actually saw a showroom called "Rakshitha Tyres" on the main road in Mandya. If you have seen the daughter …
Bumped into Balu this morning on the train to Bangalore for my weekly lecture at the Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media (www.iijnm.org). Balu is actually Dr. (Flt. Lt.) M.A. Balasubramanya. He was my senior …
Had gone to the Railway Station to see off wife on yet another of her incursions into India that was Bharat. Guess who was in the queue for the Shatabdi Express? …
For most people, obbattu marks the high point of Ugadi, but allow me to strike a seriously contrarian note: It’s the mavinakayi chitranna that really gives the Kannada New Year …
The Star of Mysore ad proclaiming the opening of a consumer electronics showoom “near Akshay Bhandar” is proof, if any proof were needed, that even if Wal-Mart were to open …
So you ate the ‘bevu-bella’ and the ‘obattu’ and are planning to hog bigtime when lunch is served, but is eating the only way to step into the New Year? Just …
Why do Kannada newspapers like 'Vijaya Karnataka' deck up their front pages for 'Holi', with colours splashed all over? And why is their Ugadi front page so tepid?
Captain G.R. Gopinath’s slip of the tangoo (see Munde Magane below) brings to mind a lovely anecdote Gangavati Beechi, the Kannada humourist, narrates at humour meets to underline the extravagant use …
There is something decidedly heart-warming about the civic response to the controversy surrounding the “gift” of 10 ft of Curzon Park-III by the district in-charge minister. On the one hand, …
South India’s self-proclaimed ‘Largest Consumer Electronics and Durables Showroom’ is opening near Akshay Bhandar tomorrow. The chief guest, let it recorded, is the movie star Deepak of Shishya fame. Or, …
Tuesday’s convocation, the eleventh, of the Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute of Management Development (SDM-IMD) in Mysore was remarkable for a delightful faux pas by the chief guest of the evening, …