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Do our gods sanction our politicians’ silly games?
K.B. Ganapathy in Star of Mysore: “Sometimes I wonder if H.D. Deve Gowda‘s success, despite an unstable weak political party, is due to the grace of Gods and Goddesses which …
Coming: Nimmoppan Experiments with Untruths
If “Bangalored” can become a word in the English dictionary because of outsourcing, surely the nataka in Karnataka of the last few months should inspire lexicographers to come up with …
Look, who got caught in Deve Gowda’s crossfire
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: In tying up with the Congress in May 2004, his guns may have been trained on the BJP. In tying up with the BJP …
CHURUMURI POLL: Black Magic in Silicon Halli?
Among the many charges that B.S. Yediyurappa parroted before every TV camera yesterday, nothing is more emblematic of the depths to which Karnataka politics has sunk than his allegation that …
Yedi, steady, go: All the gods must be crazy
Not even bending backwards on one foot helped B.S. Yediyurappa escape the machinations of the “Son Parivar”. After the JDS issued a whip directing its legislators to vote against the …
Bollywood’s a scam. Farah Khan’s a big, fat con.
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: I watched Om Shanti Om (OSO) over the weekend, with my parents. It was a nice “family movie” in the sense that my dad and …
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