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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Posted on 31 August 2007 by churumuri
3

Why the middle class is apathetic to politics


Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University, in Prospect magazine “The political apathy of the middle class owes something to the differences in the way 21st-century …

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Posted on 31 August 2007 by churumuri
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‘Who can give surety in life—or in death?’


V. RAMAPRASAD in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, forwards a YouTube video for Camlin products, and asks: “Whatever happened to commercials such as these?”

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Posted on 31 August 2007 by churumuri
3

‘Take big steps, urgent steps, fast-paced steps’


SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI writes: Whenever I see P. Sainath walk, I am reminded of the opening line in the novel Bharatipura by the Jnanapeeth award-winning Kannada novelist U.R. Anantha Murthy. Jagannath, …

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Posted on 31 August 2007 by churumuri
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Should papers, TV publish terror suspects’ pix?


The police in Hyderabad, have released the “sketch” of the suspect (above) who they say was behind the bomb blastswhich killed several dozen people at an auditorium. The computer-aided sketch …

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Posted on 31 August 2007 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Are Sikh turbans a risk?


Sikhs in the United States have complained of “racial profiling” after a Sikh businessman was made to leave the screening line at an American airport and forced to remove his …

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Posted on 31 August 2007 by churumuri
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MUST WATCH: The best stats you’ve never seen


# Is the gap between the rich and the poor widening? # Can there be a uniform solution for all the problems of Asia and Africa? # Is the internet …

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Posted on 30 August 2007 by churumuri
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How our commies have their cake and hog it too


An indelible image of the Modern Indian Communist Leader is the royal spectacle of “Comred” Prakash Karat and his lovely wife “Comrani” Brinda Karat at Mysore railway station a couple …

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Posted on 30 August 2007 by churumuri
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‘Live’ and in colour, the sickness of a society


NEW DELHI: A television sting operation has bared a lady mathematics teacher allegedly filming her girl students in a “compromising position”. The girls claimed that the teacher, Uma Khurana, was …

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Posted on 29 August 2007 by churumuri
10

Twice-bitten Sonia wants to catch ’em young


The first casualty of terror is trust. In this Indian Express picture, a security guard “checks” children who have come to tie rakhis on Congress president Sonia Gandhi outside her …

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Posted on 29 August 2007 by churumuri
5

God save IAS when a DC is as starstruck as a PC


RANCHI: Bokaro Deputy Commissioner Praveen Toppo has been issued a show-cause notice after television footage showed him touching the feet of JMM President Shibu Soren when he reached Bokaro yesterday. …

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Posted on 29 August 2007 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: If there’s a snap election…


The kerfuffle kicked up by the communists over the Indo-US nuclear deal has seen a flurry of opinion polls. While most respondents seem to think little of the left’s attempts …

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Posted on 28 August 2007 by churumuri
1

Salman Khan & Ootaram. Pravin Mahajan & Dossa


JODHPUR: Salman Khan is keeping himself busy in Jodhpur central jail reading the spiritual book God Speaks gifted to him by girlfriend Katrina Kaif. On Sunday, the actor met his …

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Posted on 28 August 2007 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Is the “Indian team” Indian?


The messy battle between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Indian Cricket League (ICL) has entered the messy corridors of the judiciary, with the latter …

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Posted on 28 August 2007 by churumuri
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‘India is a nation of two planets: rich and poor’


PALAGUMMI SAINATH, the rural affairs editor of The Hindu, who was recently named as a recipient of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award, spoke to Sunil Sethi, the books editor of …

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Posted on 27 August 2007 by churumuri
5

Death, be not proud at who you consume


The father of Irshad Ahmed Shaikh, an engineering student who perished in Saturday’s bomb blasts in Hyderabad, vents his grief in Bombay. Photograph by Agence France Presse/ The Telegraph

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Posted on 27 August 2007 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Should POTA be brought back?


Saturday’s bomb blasts in Hyderabad, just months after a similar attack in that City and in Bombay, have resulted in our political parties taking their usual positions. The BJP’s Venkaiah …

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Posted on 27 August 2007 by churumuri
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Nofors, Dumbfors, Looney, Moony and Sorryn


E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I was watching the media coverage of Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan which looked like an overdose of Perry Mason and Sherlock Holmes stories. The story was …

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Posted on 25 August 2007 by churumuri
23

Why the Maruti Zen is (was?) India’s roomiest car


The scion of the erstwhile royal family of Mysore Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar extricates himself out of his chariot in the run-up to the elections of the Karnataka State Cricket Association …

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Posted on 25 August 2007 by churumuri
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‘Trivialisation is the leit motif of Indian media’


E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Trivialisation and dumbing down of news with the lowest common denominator in mind are becoming the order of the day in Indian media in the name of …

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Posted on 25 August 2007 by churumuri
5

Say hello to the chief, the Hindu Hriday Samrat


CNN-IBN aired a programme last night on the findings of the Justice Srikrishna report into the Bombay “riots” of January 1993 being put in cold storage despite the mountain of …

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Posted on 25 August 2007 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Have neutral umpires failed?


In the second Test match of the ongoing series against England at Trent Bridge, Sachin Tendulkar was adjudged lbw by Simon Taufel even as the ball appeared to go well …

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Posted on 25 August 2007 by churumuri
3

‘To Save India, start with her hon’ble MPs’


Mallika Sarabhai in The Times of India: “The only thing that can make an impact is throwing 80% of those in Parliament into the sea,” said Mallika bluntly. “What ideology …

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Posted on 24 August 2007 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Will Left withdraw support?


Although they have been breathing fire and brimstone for a fortnight now, the first signs of a softening of the Left stand on the Indo-US nuclear deal have appeared. CPI(M) …

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Posted on 24 August 2007 by churumuri
5

In the era of 0% interest, a bribe of Rs 0.0


From Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad: Coimbatore: Fifth Pillar India, an NGO set up to fight corruption, has printed over 200,000 zero-denomination notes that resemble Indian currency and has begun distributing them …

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Posted on 24 August 2007 by churumuri
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Role reversal: The captain & the prime minister


T.V.R SHENOY on rediff.com “It is a pity that Rahul Dravid and Dr Manmohan Singh couldn’t exchange places last week. The prime minister might have gone for the kill at …

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