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“What if she had been born in Faisalabad?”
Was out at Nilgiri’s near Bhudevi Farm just a while ago to bring some kabuli chana. Overheard a Coorgi couple explaining to a friend as to why they had decided to name …
Have our papers lost all sense of humour?
Reading about the door to 10, Downing Street being repainted… reading about biscuits being used to make roads safer and more durable… reading about a family tree having the faces …
‘Save Devaraja Urs Road’
Star of Mysore editor K.B. Ganapathy has made a couple of very interesting points in the last ten days, both concerning the senseless spending by our civic authorities. The first …
Road to confusion
In Bombay, it is common to find even the upmarket “Western Ghats” pronouncing Hughes Road as “hyoo-jus” road. Our own Irwin Road is posing similar problems. For those conversant with …
Remembering the master
Whenever I read or write the word beverage, as I did in a recent post, I cannot but think of YNK. ‘Bevaru bandaga beverage; bisilu yeridaga Bisleri,’ the punny man of Kannada …
First for a few minutes
Went to see my auditor Ramachandra yesterday. Gameplan: to make amends for filing my returns very late last year by handing over my papers on the first day of the …
Citizens of the world
Kollegal Mahesh has a cute story in today’s Vijaya Karnataka on virtually all the 250-300 families in Pakshi Rajapura in Hunsur taluk having at least one “foreign returned” member. The …