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JOKE OF THE WEEK #6
As part of the great American electoral tamasha, Hillary Clinton has been unbundling herself. She says as a child she wanted to be an Olympics athlete, but she wasn't athletic. She says she …
WHODUNIT: URA, Kambar, HSS, Mystery Woman?
Nothing reveals the minds and methods of our literary luminaries than a nice spat. And no spat in recent times has been more byzantine than the one involving Agrahara Krishnamurthy, …
Why Kosi Elwin named her son Jawahar Singh
She was 13 when the pioneering British anthropologist Verrier Elwin married her in 1940. She was 23 when he divorced her. For 56 years now, Kaushalya (or Kosi, as he …
CHURUMURI POLL: Should the CJ meet the CM?
A meeting between the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, Cyriac Joseph, and the Chief Minister of Karnataka, H.D. Kumaraswamy has, on Tuesday kicked up a tsunami in the sherbet. …
‘When sparks fly, a healthy, creative fire is lit’
At the launch of Sangeeta Katti-Kulkarni's "Bendre Geeta Yatre" yesterday evening, U.R. Anantha Murthy was talking of how creative friction had lubricated many a social, cultural and literary discourse, rendering it richer …
MUST READ: The Cop Who Stopped the Maharaja
T.S. SATYAN writes: According to a recent report in The Telegraph, Calcutta, “a traffic policeman fined an Andhra Pradesh High Court judge for not wearing a seat belt in an …
GUTTER CHICKEN: The Punjabification of food
Have we lost all self-esteem about our food? Or have our tongues and palates become ridiculously cosmopolitan in the globalised era? Vishweshwar Bhat, the executive managing editor of Vijaya Karnataka, …