The following is the full, unexpurgated text of the convocation address made by the Kannada literatteur Prof U.R. Anantha Murthy at the Jamia Milia Islamia on Thursday, 30 October 2008: …
The slugfest on the streets of Bombay following Raj Thackeray‘s arrest, captured in all its cricketing splendour by the photographers of the Marathi newspaper, Sakal. Photograph: courtesy Sakal Link via …
Tunku Varadarajan in The New York Times: “An unmanned spacecraft from India – that most worldly and yet otherworldly of nations – is on its way to the moon. For …
Jatti kelage biddaroo meese mannu aaga-lilla, is an old Kannada saying. Meaning: the wrestler’s moustache was unsoiled even after he was floored. The Indian left may be going through its …
Given the packs of still and video journalists who now hover over even ordinary news events, it is a mad scramble to get good visuals. And if the news is …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The crowd around was laughing and jeering at her. Her saree was torn and hair disheveled and she was not even conscious of that. She was alternately …
Ratan Tata claims he was inspired to think of the one-lakh-rupee car when he saw a young family trying to brave the rains on a scooter. But can even a …
The arrest of three suspects with Hindu names—Shyamlal Sahu, Shivnarayan Singh and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur alias Poornachetanand Pragya Singh Thakur—in connection with the blasts in Malegaon, Modasa and Mehrauli …
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Iyengar bakeries must be Karnataka’s culinary gift to the world. The Iyengars of Tamil Nadu don’t run bakeries. The Iyengar bakeries in Madras—a friend tells …
Wired, the iconic tech magazine, has a long story, of all people, on “The Godfather of Bangalore“, underworld don turned champion of the downtrodden, Muthappa Rai. Written by the investigative …
Sharpshooting, smooth talking cracker salesmen test their marketing skills on customers with toy guns on the eve of Deepavali on Cubbon Road in Bangalore on Thursday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
T.S. NAGARAJAN writes from Bangalore: Spencer Tunick is a New York photographer who prefers to be seen as an artist, not a photographer. He convinced 18,000 Mexicans to take their …
In the gardens of Bangalore palace, an audacious “outsider” grabs the birthright of worms of the soil and makes merry. Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, Raj Thackeray gets ready to …
The following news item appeared in Star of Mysore on Monday: Noted litterateur Dr S. Prabhu Shankar yesterday dropped a bombshell when he alleged that a North Indian spoiled the …
Students of the Wesleyan University perform Muthuswami Dikshithar‘s Kamalambha Navavarna Kriti during the Navaratri festival in Middletown, Connecticut. They train under adjunct instructor Balu and artist in residence David Nelson …
Simon Wilde in The Sunday Times, London, on the real essence of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar: “The suffocating intrusions and the expectations of a billion fans must be intolerable; indeed, they …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The meeting of the finance minsiters of G-7 with the CEOs of banks started off on a somber note with each FM wailing about how global finance …
In the latest issue of Outlook, the Bangalore-based historian Ramachandra Guha uses an academic trip to Norway to pen an Oslo diary. In his first week at the University, Guha …
Jet Airways has let go of hundreds of employees, a day after tying up with Kingfisher Airlines, in the first, visible manifestation of the global economic crisis hitting home. Union …
There’s nothing like a nice little surprise. And a nice little surprise this week is a Madras-born, Mangalore-bred, Tamil-loving, Kannada-speaking former journalist who has studied at Oxford, Princeton and is …
In the two months since the Orissa disgrace began, 50,000 Christians have been rendered homeless, many of their homes burnt. But Mohan Joshi, central unit secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishat …
SHRINIDHI HANDE writes from Madras: During the past year, I have travelled a lot more than in my previous years. I visited Bidar, Hampi, Hoskote, Jog falls, Shimoga, Mysore, Talakad, …
The scion of the erstwhile royal family of Mysore, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, loses balance while climbing the “Belli Pallakki” during the Banni Pooja at the main Amba Vilas palace in …
Renowned photographer James Nachtwey does his bit for XDR-TB, not a new motorcycle on the market but Extreme Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, a new form of an ancient disease that is …
Just another year in the life of a tusker. Bedecked elephants, with the artful decorations still intact, clamber up trucks on the return journey back to the forests at the …