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For your children
PDCS writes: Science book recommendations for your Children. Enjoy.
When Dubya had a heart attack…
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 …
In defense of a bad review
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 …
A story a day
PDCS writes: Jhumpa Lahiri writes on the Malgudi Days in the Boston Review. Read it. It’s good.
Once upon a time, a Mysorean in Tanzania
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 …
The ICC is doing what Kolte Seena ordered
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 …
Admit it, the future of India is with her women
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 …
Esterday Arthmetik teacher ask me 15 into 10. I tell, I will ask C.M. for answre
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 …
Right people, wrong place, wrong time, right ho
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 …
Just because you are literate, you are not wise
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 …
Modern Bakasura
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 …
Tippu Sultanu, rocket technologiyu and Biryani Politiciansu
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 …
Coming to an airport near you
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 …
Sachin Tendulkar as seen by our TV channels
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 …
If Masti bugs our activists, so should Huchch Masti
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 …
Is this the most happening paper in the world?
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 …
It’s tempting to bomb our neighbours, but…
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 …
Good night and sweet dreams
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 …
Two legs forward, two legs afterward
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 …
Once upon a time, in the classroom of Mr Syed Ibrahim
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 …
10 reasons we won’t win the war on terror
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 …
Is the end nigh for black and white photography?
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 …
How Zidane saved Materazzi with the head-butt
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 …
Italy and India: Separated at birth?
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 …
What Uttam Nakate & Shashi Kumar are telling us
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 …