For your children
PDCS writes: Science book recommendations for your Children. Enjoy.
PDCS writes: Science book recommendations for your Children. Enjoy.
SWAROOP DEV forwards this joke from Dubai: George Bush has a heart attack and dies. Obviously, he goes to Hell,where the Devil is waiting for him. “I’m not sure what …
PDCS writes: Writing a bad review isn’t a bad thing. But Aditya Sinha’s review of OMKARA in the Hindustan Times left me wondering about the trash that gets published in newspapers and …
PDCS writes: Jhumpa Lahiri writes on the Malgudi Days in the Boston Review. Read it. It’s good.
BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: I went to Tanzania on foreign assignment in 1975. When I reported for duty at Dar-es-Salaam, I asked for a while sheet so that I could give …
R.S. KRISHNASWAMY writes: Forty years ago in the cricket playing fields of Mysore there was a giant of a batsman called ‘Kolte’ Seena. He appeared on the scene very briefly …
BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: The former Lokayukta of Karnataka, Justice N. Venkatachala, while speaking in Bangalore earlier this week, has stated that women make better administrators and has exhorted them to …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: In a historic move to make exams headache-free for students and easier for answer paper evaluators, the CBSE is planning to ignore wrong and incorrect spelling by …
T.S. NAGARAJAN writes: Delhi in the early sixties. My wife Meenakshi, a convent-educated matriculate, had just joined me after our wedding in the temple town of Madurai. I took much …
T.S. SATYAN writes: It happened long ago.I had gone with a friend to the telegraph office near Banumiah‘s high school in Mysore when a coolie working at the nearby Santhepet …
PDCS writes: BBC reports on this incredible eater Rappai, from Trissur, known more fondly (though not by the ‘eat all you can buffet’ restauranteers) as Theeta. Seventy five idlis for …
PDCS writes: Under the very popular ‘Blame the Damn Politician‘ scheme, Chikkarange Gowda recently asked a very pertinent question: Why don’t politicians, who spend a fortune on Biryani and Chilli …
PDCS writes: Speculative investment in Mysore real estate is nothing new. Still, have you heard of a Heritage Golf Course being built near Mysore Airport? Most Mysoreans haven’t. Well informed …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: That Sachin Tendulkar is arguably, one of the greatest batsmen has been acknowledged by a wide spectrum of population from the masala chaiwala in Surat to the …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: What’s in a name? What’s the problem with making a film entitled Masti? Sure, the film isn’t a biopic on the life of Masti Venkatesh …
One of India’s two best editors—keep guessing!—says The Independent, London, the paper started by a journalists’ co-operative, may probably the most buzzing publication in the world. This frontpage, forwarded to …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: A few days have passed since the Bombay and Srinagar blasts. We all have weighed in on how India should respond to the spectre of …
As if they aren’t scary even when viewed through the safe lenses of Animal Planet or National Geographic, subversive Saggere Ramaswamy of Karnataka Photo News sends us pictures of snakes in …
ROHIT K.G. writes from Dubai: I’m sure you’ve all read the emails on the two-cow economic system, where cows and milk production is managed according to the economic policies of …
M.P.V SHENOY writes: Adolescence is a golden period in one’s life. A young awkward individual begins to outgrow parental authority. He attempts to assert his identity, starts relating with the …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I saw The Ace Political Expert (APE) trying to hoist the National Tricolour in honour of the shaheeds of Mumbai and Srinagar who have given their lives …
T.S. NAGARAJAN writes: Is it twilight time for black and white photography? Yes. It appears that the days of traditional photography are numbered. Modern technology is driving this art form …
Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt in the finals of the football World Cup isn’t merely what you saw it to be—a brain explosion in a star player. It depends, as this viral …
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: What do India and Italy have in common apart from Sonia Gandhi that is? John Foot, author of Calcio: A History of Italian Football, thinks …
ALFRED SATISH JONES writes from Washington D.C.: Sorry I’ve been off the radar for this long. I’ve been in a funk for several reasons. One, Syd Barrett kicked the bucket …