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MUST READ: How do “they” view the IT boom?
The IT boom (including the phrase IT boom!) has become a cliche. Everybody from the IT chiefs to the politicians to the media says the same things, more or less. …
Each time you flush, say salam babu to O.C. Sen
PRAKASH RAMACHANDRAIAH writes: Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this historic letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It …
Help from the Umpire upstairs for stars below
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: There is a new website on the horizon. It’s called whytakechancesgotokukkesubramanya.com Double click on it and this is what you read. "Promoted by the Cricketers' Guild, our …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will the Left bare its fangs?
The results of the assembly elections are out and they have gone as predicted by the exit polls. The Left Front has won West Bengal for the seventh time in a …
TOP SECRET: Who will take on Brijesh Patel?
Brijesh Patel has had a free run ever since he dislodged C. Nagaraj as the secretary of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA). None of the players, none of the …
Excuse me, my brother, can you spare a billion?
ALFRED SATISH JONES writes from Washington D.C.: Since bashing/denigrating the United States has become a default pastime in India, churumuri's readers might be interested in looking up this BBC piece highlighting the deep roots …
SHAME: Karnataka’s kids worse off than Bihar’s
BHAMY V. SHENOY and ASHVINI RANJAN write: Can our villages throw up another A.P.J. Abdul Kalam or K.R. Narayanan? Young boys who make it big on the world stage in …