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A Horse for Mr Ashwath
At the launch of the Mysore editions of Deccan Herald and Praja Vani at Hotel Metropole this evening, the Kannada thespian K.S. Ashwath narrated a story. A classic and quaint Mysore …
T.J.S. GEORGE: Immaturity breeds incompetence
It’s not often that T.J. S. George speaks his mind on journalism. At least, not in public. Founder-editor of Asiaweek magazine, editorial advisor to the New Indian Express group, and …
Javagal Srinath: World’s Most Famous Mysorean?
Finally, Deccan Herald has launched its Mysore edition today. Yours truly has a piece in it on the World’s 10 Most Famous Mysoreans i.e. Mysoreans who have taken the name …
‘Kuvempu didn’t name his son, he sentenced him’
T.J.S. George, one of India's last great editors, is in town. George, like everybody else interested in these matters, was amazed at the remarkable condition of Kuvempu's house in Vontikoppal as …
URGENT: Please send your best wishes to Y.S.R.
An Indian engineer (Suryanarayan) lies kidnapped by the Taliban somewhere in Afghanistan. They threaten to kill him in the next 24 hours if Indians working in Afghanistan do not leave the …
On the other hand, as Rahul Dravid would say…
On a day when it has been revealed that the Prime Minister's Office knew all along the extent of the displacement caused by the Narmada dam but yet put the onus …
SARASWATHIPURAM ANDAVA: cuppu, conu, ballsu
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: Musing over our childhood days in Saraswathipuram, my mind goes to the time when bicycles were a vital mode of transport, among the young and the elderly. Which meant …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are Indian Muslims better off?
Actor, producer, director Feroze Khan has kicked off a major storm in Pakistan with his comment that Muslims in India are better off than Muslims in Pakistan. "I am a proud Indian. …
MADAGOO! Once upon a time in CFTRI School
From Washington D.C., Alfred Satish Jones writes of the happiest day of his life: being selected for the CFTRI school cricket team. “After I’d put on the abdomen guard, the …
Are ‘Ruthless Asian Babes’ getting too ruthless?
The author William Dalrymple put a totally new spin to the Kaavya Viswanathan disgrace last night. He was saying on television that Kaavya was just another example of 'Ruthless Asian Babes' who would do …
Joke of the Week #5
The late Sri Lankan foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar had a fine and refined sense of humour. At an after-dinner speech to felicitate the Sri Lankan cricket team in London last …
THIS JUST IN: My name is Ram, K. Shivram
Churumuri is pleased to take note the following advertisement which appears on page 6 of the Mysore Edition of The Hindu today. “CHANGE OF NAME: I, K. Shivaramu (former name), …
BREAKING NEWS: SMS poll gimmick kills ‘Mukta’
SUMERU S. RAJU writes: Let me confess. I watch Mukta, the primetime Kannada serial on ETV regularly. For people whose idea of a soap opera is defined by Ekta Kapoor‘s …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are we a dying democracy?
Look at the Nepalese pro-democracy protestors. Look at the French students who rioted to save their pensions. Look at the Filipinos who take to the streets almost every year to …
Why couldn’t the Sardar buy an Arrow shirt?
Ever since I was told by my father of a possibly apocryphal angadi in Shimoga called Devare Gathi Stores, I have always been fascinated by the names of shops. And, …
TOP SECRET: Guessin’ jaisa kuch bhi nahin
"I think he is overestimated as an economist, and underestimated as a politician." Who on whom? Our lips, as usual, are sealed.
QUESTION: Is Pramod Mahajan a 2,000 crore man?
A couple of days after Pramod Mahajan was shot, one of the news channels ran purported excerpts from Pravin Mahajan's deposition before the Bombay police. Besides the usual dhaap about being humiliated …
How Kaavya Got Fame, Fortune and Got Screwed
Why Kaavya Vishwanathan did what she did we will never know (maybe V.N. Narayanan can enlighten us). Peer pressure? Overweening ambition? A thirst for success at all costs? Teenage mischief? DKCS: …
If we are so good in IT, why are we so bad at BT?
A. MADHAVAN writes from San Francisco: Foreign travel stimulates the mind and the senses. We are constantly asking ourselves, how does this experience match with what we are used to at …
Is Amartya Sen a traitor for backing Pakistan?
As someone who detests the manufactured jingoism of modern-day cricket commentators who seem to believe and convey that India has been divined by the Great Umpire upstairs to win against all …
Why we are like this only after 59 bloody years
GOURI SATYA has an interesting story in today's Business Standard which shows that less than half the water consumers in Mysore foot the entire cost of water supply in the City and bear the tax …
How the colas are making this a better country
First, they showed us how we could keep our toilets sparkling clean by sprinkling a few drops. Then they showed our farmers how they could make do without pesticide. Now, by putting a condom …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will Rahul replace Manmohan?
You know how these things happen in the Congress. One day Rahul Gandhi hints he is ready to accept a leadership role, the next day somebody says he should be made general …
Tired of bad news? Can you handle good news?
The media is always accused of looking for bad news. We are told that we ignore the good things, that we are harbingers of doom, the nattering nabobs of negativism. …
CONFESSION: How I passed my maths exam
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: An owl hooted in the darkness just outside my third-floor bedroom. I imagined the precursor of doom to be hovering around in the stillness of the night, …
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