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Are India’s elderly not being given their due?
BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: Seventy per cent of Indians are below 35 years of age. It is a common perception that if India has achieved progress the ‘young turks’ in technical …
Sick of your bank? Don’t be. Do unto them what they do unto you.
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN forwards a letter written to a bank by a 98-year-old woman. Apparently, the bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times. …
Is it all right to steal flowers in the name of the Good Lord?
T.S. SATYAN writes: A few days ago when my wife and I returned home after a day trip to Bangalore, we were aghast at finding that all the flowers in …
The pastor, the nun, the bishop and the donkey
KANCHAN HARIHARAN sends us this forward: The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in …
Is this the beginning of the end of cricket?
MARK BRADSHAW writes: What’s cricket finally coming to? Having survived bodyline, apartheid, Packer and matchfixing, is it getting to the ‘end game’? Should Inzy and Hair settle their score with …
Friends, Indians, countrymen: Why are we taking this nonsense?
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN asks some simple questions on the controversy surrounding the arrest and subsequent release of 12 Indians for the hoo-ha on the flight from Amsterdam: 1. Is is because …
Karnataka Largesse, Bumper Draw
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Based on the recommendations of Karnataka Administrative Tribunal (KAT) and a high-power committee, the Karnataka Government sometime back, gave a salary of Rs 25 lakh to one …
‘Nagalinga raised his arm. Behind was a charging elephant cow’
ARUN PADAKI writes: Experiencing the wild from close quarters is thrilling and one that I would cherish forever. At times this could send chills down the spine too. Sometime back …
Who should inaugurate Mysore Dasara this year?
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji was doing ‘tulsi’ pooje, while I was sitting by the tulsi katte and reading the newspaper. “Ramu, I want to see the ‘Sound and Light’ programme …
The cost-benefit ratio
SWAROOP DEV writes from Dubai: A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, “You …
Pepsi chief Indra Nooyi’s Mysore connection
CHETAN KRISHNASWAMY writes: Apparently, there is a Mysorean who has played a significant role in the making of Pepsico’s fabled Indian CEO Indra Nooyi: her husband Raj. A news report …
The Israeli PM gets a phone call
ROHIT K.G. in Dubai forwards a joke from a friend in Beirut: “Abul Abed is a folk hero in jokes. He is a Sunni Beiruti.” *** Israeli Prime Minister Ehud …
JOKE OF THE WEEK: The Bengali & the Sardarji
MURALI KRISHNAN writes from New Delhi: A Sardarji and a Bengali, both suffering from serious diseases, share the same room in a hospital. They were violently ill and both could …
The training camp Pakistan couldn’t bust
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The BCCI called for a special Board meeting to discuss India’s perennial problem of losing in fFinals in most the tournaments after the last World Cup. Sharad …
Once upon a time, during the Quit India Movement
T.S. SATYAN writes: I was in the first year of my BA class at the Maharaja’s College in Mysore, when Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement in 1942. Students …
When Dean Jones threw up a second time
PDCS writes: I sincerely hope that Dean Jones never comes back to the subcontinent again, in any capacity. He had displayed his ignorance consistently, while competing with Kiran More to …
Namma nadu Kannada, namma nudiyu Kannada
PDCS writes: Yesterday, Mysore’s Kannada intellectuals and activists were in the streets again, demanding the status of classical language to Kannada. Here is a comprehensive report in the Hindu on …
Sorry, Sherlock Holmes is not a block of flats
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Purvankara, Shobha, Sankalp and Brigade are some of the biggest names among property developers and builders on the horizon. As Bangalore is growing faster than Kempe Gowda’s …
When shall we be heard?
PDCS writes: Star of Mysore reports on yet another threat by the Pourakarmikas of Mysore City Corporation: that they will keep off work during Dasara, if their demands aren’t met. …
Wake up call
PDCS writes: I must admit that it was gratifying to read Star of Mysore reports on a brain storming session by Muslim leaders, bureaucrats and intellectuals this weekend in Mysore. …
Rum and Revolution
PDCS writes: Rum has always had a distinctly American swagger. It is untutored and proud of it, raffish, often unkempt, and a little bit out of control. The history of …
10 reasons Lebanon didn’t make it to World Cup
ROHIT K.G. writes from Dubai: *** 10. League wouldn’t accept Iranian or Syrian strikers on their team 9. Firing katusha missiles aimlessly into stands didn’t technically count as scoring goals 8. Thought …
Jiddu Krishnamurti on love, death, god and more
T.S. NAGARAJAN writes: Mystics, saints, gurus and philosophers have been my subject of interest. I have seen some of them, met some, heard some, read some and, of course, I …
Indians in Singapore once upon a time, and now
SHASHIKIRAN MULLUR: Ten years ago, here in Singapore, I’d suffer at the sight of fellow Indians shopping. At Mustafa, where they were a major source of revenue, the staff would …
Once upon a time, tikki, goli, lagori, chinni-daandu
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: I was in Bangalore the other day. To attend a get together of old childhood mates, mostly from good old Saraswathipuram, but now mostly from the land …
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