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CHURUMURI POLL: Private sector=Unequal India?
India’s private sector brooks no interference in its recruitment policies. It resists the idea of quotas being introduced. It says it is a fair and equal employer. It says it …
Very soon, they will move into the Last Resort
News item in Star of Mysore: Bangalore: After staying in Ramanashree Comforts and Prakruti Resorts on the outskirts of Bangalore, the MLAs of JD(S), owing allegience to H.D. Kumaraswamy moved …
Is the IT boom stubbing out the dowry menace?
You can debate it till the cows come home and go back, of course, but on the Open Page of The Hindu, Chandra Kommera claims that the advent of the …
Democracy doesn’t flow from the tip of a pen
U.R. Anantha Murthy in a letter to the Governor, on behalf of his writer-friends Girish Karnad, Devanur Mahadeva, and G.S. Maralusiddappa, quoted in Deccan Herald: “We do not want the …
As they say, bedfellows make strange politics
Impossible is nothing in the world currently inhabited by Karnataka politicians. In this telling picture, Zameer Ahmed Khan (second from left) of the Janata Dal (Secular) rubs shoulders with C.T. …
When “We, the People” are mere pawns
Editorial in Deccan Herald: “A government is a result of a contract made by political parties with the people. Coalitions are made on the basis of principles and public interest …
A twist in the tail causes a twist in the tale
“A truly secular witness has switched sides“ E.P. UNNY in The Indian Express
Indians should never ask where on earth Gabon is
As the media exults over the Bombay Sensitive Index climbing the 19,000 peak, P. SAINATH digs up an alarming set of numbers in an article in The Hindu on how …
Once bitten, twice smitten, thrice…?
As the BJP-JDS couple re-read their wedding vows, E.R. RAMACHANDRAN dons the quizmaster’s topi. Who said this of whom, he asks: “Bevina maradalli maavinele chigurathhe antha thilkondidvi. Eega gotthhaythu. Bevina maradalli …
‘Sadly, a lensman is just a cog, never the wheel’
The well-known photojournalist T.S. SATYAN was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award for Freelance Photojournalism instituted by the Essel Group and the Zee Network, in Bangalore on Sunday. Another Mysorean, former …
End of the beginning? Beginning of the end?
History is famously said to repeat itself, first as a comedy, then as farce. The political drama in the theatre of Karnataka may yet prove history wrong, but P. Mahmud …
BJP-JDS together: For how long, why, what next?
The yo-yo, on-off-on politics in Karnataka would defy Mr Ripley, if he hasn’t given up already. But the key question after Saturday’s developments—when the JDS and BJP once again seemingly …
Surangani, surangani, suranganita maalu genaava
As “Bush Country”—America, not Australia—readies the ground to go into Iran, despite Iraq, SWAROOP DEV forwards a YouTube music video doing the rounds that proves the old dictum that the …
Bhadralok to the power of four in Paschim Vengol
Ramachandra Guha in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “On my last trip to Calcutta, I had what can only be described as a uniquely bhadralok experience: I bought a book by a …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will law catch up with Modi?
Tehelka‘s revelations on the single-minded precision of the scientists, attendants and masterminds of the Gujarat Genocide will surprise only fully paid-up members of the lunatic fringe. But as the magazine’s …
Hindus? Vegetarians? Gandhi? Democracy?
The bestial brutality in Gujarat 2002, following the equally bestial brutality of Godhra 2002—and the silent but savage applause for what happened—has always had a few obvious questions staring those …
‘Distribution not production is the bane of PDS’
“A careful reader going through the columns of the table will observe that there is not much correlation between starvation and per capita food production. There are low foodgrain-producing states …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are T20 cheer girls obscene?
The flame of morality continues to cause palpitations in the loins of our politicians. Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister R.R. Patil, who drove Bombay’s bar dancers out of business, says the …
‘It takes two to tango, but only one gets the rap’
Sixty people were sentenced to life yesterday in various parts of the country for various crimes, ranging from terror attacks, riots, even love revenge. In Coimbatore, Al-Umma founder and accused …
Is urban India as modern as it thinks? “No.”
Endless mega serials on television show women at their shrewish, assertive best. Every other week, there are talk shows on gay rights and single parenthood. Live-in couples openly flaunt their …
A suitable gift for someone you love (or hate)
The festival season has begun, and it is a time to give, to all those whom we love—and even to those we don’t. E.R. RAMACHANDRAN has chosen to send out …
Look who says he made Deve Gowda the PM!
CPI(M) politburo member, Sitaram Yechury: “Deve Gowda‘s opportunism is something I can’t really understand because I was personally instrumental in making him the Prime Minister 10 years ago… “At that …
Does BJP owe an apology for Gujarat genocide?
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has walked out of an interview with Karan Thapar for the CNN-IBN programme, Devil’s Advocate. Below is the transcript of the few minutes that were …
Smart, alert, passionate? Shit, it’s the Indian MP.
Back home, they rarely visit their constituencies, shout and squabble like fisherwomen, skip Parliament and waste valuable time, take money for asking questions, smuggle housewives to foreign countries for a …
CHURUMURI POLL: Time for a new Constitution?
There is never a dull moment with Thiru Muthuvel Karunanidhi. As if going by the logic that if the game gets hard, the rule book needs to be altered, the …