ALL OF US TO ALL OF YOU: HAPPY NEW YEAR
team churumuri wishes you and your near and dear ones a very happy new year. Let there be peace, happiness, wisdom, and just a little prosperity in the year ahead. …
team churumuri wishes you and your near and dear ones a very happy new year. Let there be peace, happiness, wisdom, and just a little prosperity in the year ahead. …
Her name is Anusuya. A few months ago, in the Bababudangiri forests (known to some as ‘Datta Peeta’ forests) near Chikamagalur, she lost contact with her parents. Forest officials who …
Bijapur, on a misty morning, through the golden arches of “the second largest pre-modern dome in the world”, the Gol Gumbaz, on Monday. Photograph: Saggere Ramaswamy/ Karnataka Photo News
The piece to camera, or P2C, is a prized weapon in the armoury of television journalists. It is a correspondent’s signature on a news story, and like with all signatures, …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The competition between the Brothers Ambanis, Anil and Mukesh, is hotting up with no holds barred, be it at home or at business. If the fight was …
Dalit writer and activist Banjagere Jayaprakash, quoted in Vijaya Karnataka: “All Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. “Likewise, all Hindus are not fundamentalists, but all fundamentalists are …
When the air went out of Bismillah Khan‘s shehnai, the Indian government in its bottomless wisdom chose to bid goodbye to the Bharat Ratna with a 21-gun salute. The irony …
History, it is said, first repeats itself as a tragedy, then as a farce. But usually no one is laughing, no one is even noticing. *** From Deccan Herald, 25 …
The year of the lord, 2008, has seen terror in Bombay, of course. But it has also seen massive floods in Bihar. It has seen inflation in double digits, and …
This news photograph of an elephant from the Chamarajendra Zoological Garden on the run on the streets of Mysore, shot by NAGESH PANATHALE of the Mysore bureau of the Kannada …
The Sarang helicopter team of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) put up a show of precision in the skies that many humans down below would struggle to accomplish on paper. The …
ASHWINI A. writes from Bangalore: The role of television channels during the live coverage of the Bombay terror attack has been the subject of vociferous debate in the media with …
At Hudson Circle in Bangalore, on Sunday afternoon, a tramp grabs a few winks. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Syed Mohibulla Shah, head of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), was in the bunker conducting the meeting. Officials from the States of Azad Kashmir, Baluchistan, Sindh, …
SUJATA RAJPAL writes: First acceptance and then rejection, this is what the Pakistan mantra is all about. It has become a habit with Pakistan to first make false promises just …
Not even the horrendous new arch outside the Karnataka High Court can prevent the pigeons of Ambedkar Veedhi from showing some well-deserved contempt for the concrete and iron structure that …
The acclaimed photojournalist T.S. Satyan, a 22-carat Mysorean, turns 85 years young today, 18 December 2008. churumuri joins the world in wishing him a very happy birthday, and many more. …
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: Nothing more needs be said on the decision of Satyam Computer Services to spend $1.6 billion in acquiring two sister companies, Maytas Properties and …
Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The true significance of the [Madras Test] match was that it marked Virender Sehwag’s unofficial coronation as the greatest Test batsman in contemporary cricket…. …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes from Bombay: I was going to the Mysore Café at King’s Circle in Matunga when I spotted the Ace Political Expert (APE) walking ahead of ahead of …
The sociologist, Dipankar Gupta, in Mail Today: “Though there are many who would find fault with the way the electronic media covered the bloodshed in Bombay, it is also a …
Ashok V. Desai in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “In 1972, I took time off from work and taught in Delhi School of Economics. Once when I was browsing in the bookshops …
Dileep Premachandran on Sachin Tendulkar‘s 41st century at the Chepauk, on cricinfo.com: “Those that aren’t Indian struggle to fathom exactly what Tendulkar means to so many millions, and it’s doubtful …
An Iraqi journalist threw a pair of shoes at US President George W. Bush at a media conference he was about to address with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in …
Chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa after receiving an honorary doctorate at the Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan, on Friday for his contribution in “public life”. Once a thriving lumber …