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Dear brothers and sisters, do you have any idea?
Yes, our mythology is full of it. Yes, our history is full of it. But will single kids ever understand how a brother can pump bullets into another (Mahajan vs Mahajan)? …
PRAMOD MAHAJAN: A man who could’ve been PM
The passing away of Pramod Mahajan after a ten-day struggle for life is more than just a tragic family saga with a tragic ending. That it certainly is, and only …
PRAMOD MAHAJAN: 1950-2006
Every journalist will tell you of how media-savvy Pramod Mahajan was. That he surely was. Indeed, Pronnoy Roy publicly commended him for a superb interview he gave to Barkha Dutt after the …
SURPRISE: Javagal Srinath in a controversy
First it was some unnamed official/cricketer in the Pakistan Cricket Board. Now it is Dilip Vengsarkar. After having successfully staved off even the faintest whiff of a controversy all through …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will Narendra Modi be sacked?
The outbreak of motivated communal violence in Baroda, just a year before Assembly elections are held in Gujarat, brings back haunting memories of the 2002 pogrom. But there is a …
From the land of sati, a world billiards champ
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: If there’s one country that has baffled and confused many an observer, it's India for sure. John Kenneth Galbraith may ahve been on the ball when he …
JNANPITH AWARD: The one that got away
As more skulls, bones and skeletons tumble out of Kaavya Viswanathan‘s rather bare cupboard, guess which “Most Important” Jnanpith Award-winning writer must be feeling mighty relieved that he built his …
Is this the finest (English) passage on Karnataka?
From Exploring Karnataka, a photobook published in 1981 by the Government of Karnataka, with pictures by T.S. Satyan and an introduction by H.Y. Sharada Prasad: “Let us admit, as a …