Life’s a cycle. One year goes out, another comes in. While Mysore’s photographers were shooting the annual Kukkarahalli Kere silhouette shot to mark the passing of 2007 for the morning …
“O powers that be, make me to observe and keep the rules of the game. Help me not to cry for the moon. Help me neither to offer nor to …
With 2007 just hours from becoming history, it’s time to look at the 20 stories that clocked the most pageviews and the most comments on churumuri.com in the year gone …
One of the ironies of the global village is that the bigger the media gets in size and reach, the less we know of the world outside of us. Customisation, …
Google has already released country-wise lists of the most searched for items on the search engine. Time magazine has filled an entire magazine full of lists. By this time tomorrow, …
On the night of Narendra Modi‘s thumping win, Veerappa Moily decided to further expose the intellectual bankruptcy of the Congress. Appearing on a CNN-IBN show hosted by Sagarika Ghose, the …
The pat post-facto rationalisation of the Gujarat verdict is that the Congress was hoist with its own petard because it was speaking a political language that not too care to …
Like he slipped so smoothly from Kannada to Tamil, Rajnikant is racing from Bandipur from Mudumalai, on his new acquired 70 cc “TVS XL Heavy Duty moped”. A cigarette is …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: As the year draws to a close, still fretting about what a dismal job an economist is doing as prime minister? Ever thought how it would be …
B. Raman, former additional secretary, and director of the Institute of Topical Studies, Madras, in Outlook: In the Hindu diaspora in the West, more young people admire Narendra Modi than …
Swapan Dasgupta in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “In Gujarat, the media were neither disinterested observers nor merely biased against Narendra Modi; they were an active participant. From disseminating ridiculous stories about …
JDS helmsman H.D. Deve Gowda was/is well known for deeply contemplating the upliftment of the underprivileged in very, very public settings. At the Congress janandolana in Bijapur yesterday, former deputy …
Karan Thapar, India’s premier television interviewer, was an old friend of Benazir Bhutto. They had known each other since their days at Cambridge and Oxford, respectively. Benazir, according to Thapar, …
The dastardly assassination of Benazir Bhutto today underlines how bloody deaths have become the common theme of the premier political families of Pakistan and India, two countries born within two …
Crooked Timber: Whatever else can be said about Benazir Bhutto, it showed tremendous courage to return to Pakistan and to contest the elections when her assassination was always likely. sfcmac: …
Benazir Bhutto in the preface to the second edition of her autobiography, Daughter of the East in April this year: “I didn’t choose this life, it chose me. Born in …
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi. She was 54, and is survived by her husband and three children. The killing throws …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Narendra Modi‘s victory has deep-frozen the political discourse. The pseudo-nationalists are acting as if the kingdom is already theirs—for keeps. And the pseudo-secularists are …
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: There are still a few days left for the year 2007 to end, but do we already have a clear winner in the Mythological …
Narendra Modi’s detractors in Gujarat and elsewhere might be squirming at his victory, but one of his most vocal and visible critics, Mallika Sarabhai, says the fineprint is actually encouraging. …
PRITAM SENGUPTA in New Delhi and PALINI R. SWAMY in Bangalore write: Udaoed in Uttar Pradesh. Pichkaoed in Punjab. Upset in Uttarakhand. Gored in Gujarat. You might think it can’t …
P.M. VIJENDRA RAO writes: Just the other morning, I was at the Kukkarahalli Lake in Mysore for my customary jog. I was a bit late. Even as I was beginning …
M.S. PRABHAKARA has a piece in The Hindu today on, among other things, the near-unanimous demand by the so-called progressive forces, seeking a ban on those inciting communal tension in …
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: Godwin’s Law states that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one, robbing the valid comparisons …
One of the most delightful parts of the BBC radio and TV show Good Gracious Me was the sketch that parodied the belief (dearly held by Indians, especially those abroad) …