S.S. KARNADSHAW writes from Bangalore: As the Rahul Mahajan saga continues to unfold on television at half-hourly segments, there is one distinct clip of visual memory that repeatedly rewinds and …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: My Ajji was after me. “Ramu. Take me on a tirtha yatra. Everybody is going on one these days.” I was taken aback. I recovered quickly and …
The winner of the second Churumuri contest is Girish Hampali of Bangalore. A copy of T.S. Satyan's Alive and Clicking will go out to him. The answer to the cryptic …
The readers' editor of The Hindu, K. Narayanan, has responded to the Churumuri piece Under N. Ram, the Hindu becomes a 'sorry' paper in his weekly column 'Online and Off …
With ill-equipped government-run hospitals turning out to be dens of corruption and inefficiency, "We, the People" were driven to private clinics, nursing homes and hospitals. The underlying assumption was that they …
We eat their food (Lay's, MacDonald's, Pizza Hut). We drink their drinks (Coke, Pepsi). We wear their sneakers (Nike, Reebok). We drive their cards (Opel, Ford). We watch their soaps and …
The conventional wisdom is that Bihar is a poor, hapless State. The conventional wisdom that Dalits are a lazy, unenterprising, illiterate lot, forever lunging at the loaves of freebies thrown at them …
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