PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: We can all quibble over the credibility of the CNN-IBN-Deccan Herald pre-poll survey depending on which electoral barstool we are sitting on till result …
It’s official. Women in India binge on alcohol as much as men, according to a report in The Telegraph, Calcutta. Although alcohol use is still lower among women, there are …
The publication of the first pre-poll survey by CNN-IBN and Deccan Herald has set the cat among the pigeons and stirred the hornets’ net. Those who find the findings to …
Bangalore is said to be the Silicon Halli of India. The “hi-tech city” that is home to Infosys and Wipro, Indian Institute of Science and Indian Institute of Information Technology. …
Apropos the news about “Dalit Christians” being barred entry into an “upper caste” Church in a village in Tamil Nadu, Jaithirth Rao writes in The Indian Express: “From Abbe Dubois …
The first pre-poll survey in Karnataka is predicting a slim, significant and even surprising majority for the Congress in the 2008 Assembly elections, and a dip for both the BJP …
K.T. VISHNU KUMAR, in Melbourne, forwards a YouTube video of a Greenpeace campaign against Unilever (Hindustan Unilever in India), makers of Lux, Dove, Surf and virtually every other soap, detergent …
U.R. Anantha Murthy in an interview with Vicky Nanjappa of rediff.com and India Abroad: Q: Do you think we need to introduce a law wherein political parties, which do not …
The assembly elections in Karnataka is just what the editor ordered for sub-editors. With a canvas populated by a scowling B.S. Yediyurappa, a spiffy S.M. Krishna, the earthy H.D. Deve …
M.J. Akbar in his weekly column in Khaleej Times, Dubai: “The Left, [the raft on which the UPA government has been sailing for four years] which is still anxious to …
PRESS RELEASE: Vinod Mehta, editor-in-chief of Outlook magazine, is to deliver the convocation address to the graduating class of 2008 at the Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media (IIJNM), …
On a breezy afternoon, with rain in the air, the board of directors convene an emergency meeting on the road ahead. Do they woo back the runaway kid? Do they …
P. Sainath, the Magsaysay Award-winning rural affairs editor of The Hindu, at the Rajendra Mathur memorial lecture organised by the Editors’ Guild of India, says the moral universe of the …
Life has a strange way of imitating art. True to the spirit of a cricket-mad City, the Calcutta Knight Riders have a fun site with spoofs, cartoons and fake magazine …
# Kapil Dev, the brave Jat, breaks down inconsolably on BBC when Karan Thapar reminds him of Manoj Prabhakar‘s claim that he had offered Rs 25 lakh to him underperform …
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Hyderabad: We have heard of bloody coups, bloodless coups, military coups, silent coups, and even coups by mercenaries (and, no, not just those of us who …
A television hand adjusts the microphone cable for S.M. Krishna as the media-savvy, image-conscious former chief minister gets ready for yet another pow-wow from the ramparts of his residence—not a …
Former CBI director R.K. Raghavan in The Hindu: “No cricket fan will be amused by what happened at Mohali. By all accounts, Harbhajan Singh slapped a hapless S. Sreesanth, all …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji was frowning as she peered at her voter identity card. “Don’t you like your picture, ajji,” I asked. “Like? They have made me look like a …
The Congress’ move to put up Mamata Nichani against H.D. Kumaraswamy in Ramanagara/m has attracted attention for all the wrong reasons. But as Johnson T.A. writes in the Indian Express, …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi:The Times of India‘s executive editor Jaideep Bose says he wants to go. JoJo, as the affable editor is known, made the announcement at a …
S. Prashantha in today’s Deccan Herald has a touching story of three sisters from Shimoga—A.T. Asha, A.T. Ambika, and A.T. Anitha—who have pledged their eyes. What’s new? Well, what if …
There is no respite from our politicians for the alive and kicking. And, in an election season, there seems to be no respite for the dead and dying either. The …
The police may always be sleeping on the job, but the moral police are always on the job. Farmers are killing themselves in Vidarbha, inflation is soaring through the roof …
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: The nomination of candidates for the assembly elections has followed a set pattern, suggesting that our political parties and politicians are like stuck records—they …