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If he was an offspinner, he would be Muralitharan
Chubs, a five-month-old Basset Hound, in Jayalakshmipuram, Mysore, gives his doctor “the look” as he waits for his monthly shot.
What music does his holiness recommend forgers?
Three things stand out in the case of the momentary “arrest” of Ganapati Sachchidananda Swamiji, the postman turned pontiff of the Avadhoota Datta Peetham, on Sunday, 25 May 2008, in …
The gateway to the south as seen from up above
The view of the swearing-in ceremony from the roof of Visvesvaraya Towers (top); the lone woman minister Shobha Karandlaje urges the new chief minister to greet the hordes after the …
It takes a village to raise a child. Are you there?
VINUTHA MALLYA writes: I am helping raise funds for a community school started by the Ramsar Police in Barmer district of Rajasthan. The school has 150 students in just three …
If they could have criminal MLAs, why can’t we?
Three days before the Karnataka results were declared, the BJP had accused the UPA of criminalising governance. And the party loses no opportunity to dredge up Shibhu Soren, Mohammed Taslimuddin …
‘Moily will struggle to win a municipal election’
Rajdeep Sardesai on CNN-IBN: “Karnataka is only the latest example of the time warp the Congress is trapped in: a campaign remote controlled from Delhi was doomed for failure in …
All the little flowers that bloomed with the lotus
L.K. Advani, Narendra Modi, Prakash Singh Badal, Rajnath Singh join Karnataka’s 25 chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa and his ministers from the Vidhana Soudha after taking oath on Friday, 30 May …
Why PM couldn’t stand the sight of palak & gobi
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Prime Minister’s ophthalmologist is not only a good eye surgeon but has a hawk-eye for political nuances that matter in the corridors of Delhi. He has …
All in a day’s work for the next chief minister
Before they swear on the Constitution, the modern Indian leader swears by the heads of the various religious mutts with a deep slash of vermillion or vibhuti on his forehead. …
The criminalisation of politics or the vice-versa?
The defining feature of the Karnataka elections of 2008 is the legitimisation of big money as being central to the political process. Whereas in the past, the various lobbies—excise, education, …
If Bangalore’s so hot, why are its netas so thanda?
K.P. Nayar, The Telegraph‘s Washington correspondent, writes of how the Karnataka elections were watched more keenly by Americans than the primaries in their own states, thanks partly to the flat …
ANNOUNCEMENT: Biopic on K.G. Kannabiran
Pedestrian Pictures is screening a part-biography, part-history film on K.G. Kannabiran, the human rights and civil liberties activist, at 5 pm on Saturday, 31 May 2008, at the IAT on …
A few years, a few inches, a few strands later
Karnataka’s chief minister in waiting, B.S. Yediyurappa, then and now. Photographs: Karnataka Photo News
How shlokas, mantras put Bee in Akshay’s bonnet
MADHU GOPINATH RAO writes from New York City: Anurag Kashyap, Sai R. Gunturi, Pratyush Buddiga, George Abraham Thampy, Nupur Lala. Do these names ring a bell? They are not up-and-coming …
In first past the post system, one vote is enough
Congress spokesman Manish Tiwari: “The Congress lost 21 seats [in Karnataka] by less than 3,000 votes: two seats by less than 100 votes, six by less than 1,000 votes, another …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will BJP govt last its full term?
An intimation of mortality even before promised date of delivery is not what any parent looks forward to, but by getting tantalisingly close to the half-way mark, yet not quite …
Ours is not to ask whether smplr means tts-n-ss
RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: Deccan Chronicle, the Hyderabad-based group that is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, has just launched its Bangalore edition. Hoardings like these that greeted Bangaloreans …
Sorry, IPL fans, Test cricket is alive and rollicking
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: While the Indian Premier League (IPL) winds down towards the knockout stages, two of the most engrossing Test matches in recent times have been unfolding …
The handshake everybody loves to watch closely
The BJP’s chief minister in waiting, B.S. Yediyurappa, greets the newly elected MLA from Yeshwanthpur, Shobha Karandlaje, at his residence in Bangalore on Monday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also read: …
God moves in mysterious ways. So do Godmen.
It’s not often that the long arm of the law manages to shake hands with India’s powerful godmen and women. But on Sunday, 25 May 2008, as the political vacuum …
How the BJP got it right, and Congress didn’t
Journalist turned BJP strategist Swapan Dasgupta, who had an inside track on the BJP campaign in Karnataka, writes about how the BJP learnt from and implemented the findings of an …
19 tips for the Congress to start winning again
G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, the psephologist behind Development and Research Services (DRS), who had offered ‘Six reasons why Congress will lose in Karnataka‘, now offers seven tips for the Congress to …
Because too many cooks spoil the bisi bele broth
Sujan Dutta in The Telegraph, Calcutta, salutes Arun Jaitley, the commander of the BJP’s victorious army in Karnataka, and compares him to German “Desert Fox”, Erwin Rommel: “Arun Jaitley has …
State by state, saffron is becoming the new green
Since 2004, the Congress has won assembly elections in Goa, Haryana, Assam, Maharashtra, Manipur and Pondicherry. It has lost in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Bengal, Tripura, …
CHURUMURI POLL: What did the trick for BJP?
Now that the Bharatiya Janata Party has firmly set foot in the southern peninsula by exploding all the usual myths associated with it of being a party of just one …