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Maaama, Ambi Mama beats Maaama, Mani Mama
KANCHAN HARIHARAN ( a hard-Kaur Tamil) forwards a survey that has revealed that ‘Ambi Mama‘ is the leading relative among Tamil Brahmin families worldwide, with six in ten families having …
Monet ain’t a Malayalee impressionistic painter
Ravishekhar S. forwards this fantastic Calvin & Hobbes strip which all our mothers need to stick up their non-stick pans. (For additional insights on why most of us haven’t grown …
Machcha, why can’t we do what Israel does?
HARI SHENOY writes: July 11, 2006 is yet another date that will go down in the annals of our history for its infamy. The terrorists, it seems, just can’t get enough of targetting …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are stock markets inhuman?
The blasts in Bombay failed to unnerve the spirit of the Bombay Stock Exchange, where the 30-stock sensitive index (Sensex) rose 316 points yesterday. When Delhi had been racked by blasts …
7/11: How the world looked at the Bombay blasts
Bellur Ramakrishna has made collages of the front pages of various newspapers, Indian and foreign, on the way they dealt with the Bombay blasts and the day after.
Like item girls, our MLCs expose themselves
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes: Tuesday’s newspapers had two news stories. The first contained the infamous threat of former Assembly speaker Ramesh Kumar to tourism minister D.T. Jayakumar, on the floor of …
Yes, Bombay was terrible. What about Srinagar?
ANUSHUKA RATHOUR writes from Hyderabad: Yes, it’s touching how Mumbaikars have come forward to help out those in distress. Yes, it’s really something we must applaud. And yes, I feel proud …
Beginning of the end of Mysore as we knew it?
ARUN PADAKI writes from Johannesburg: London has it, Paris has it, so does New Delhi. A clearly identified nerve-centre in the heart of the city; a focal point from where …