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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. …
What l’il ones do when appa, amma aren’t around
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 …
A sight for sore eyes in the ruins of ‘Beejapoor’
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
‘From Karachi, this is Chand Nawab, Indus 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, …
Whoever said you can’t build castles in the air?
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 …
Can sauce for the goose be sauce for the gander?
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 …
Somewhere on western front, the sound of music
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 …
More things change, more they remain the same
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 …
CHURUMURI POLL: 2008, worst in India’s history?
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 …
Who will book the offender on the wrong side?
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 …
Signatures in the sky that may be tough on earth
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 …
‘Will even 90 cases bring some sense into TV9?’
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 …
Every dog has his day. So does his best friend.
At Hudson Circle in Bangalore, on Sunday afternoon, a tramp grabs a few winks. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
Meanwhile, on the other side of midnight…
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, …
‘Boycott Pakistan as if Pakistan doesn’t exist’
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 …
DND: The annual general body is now in progress
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 …
Happy birthday to Mysore’s youngest lensman
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. …
Do they teach this at Harvard Business School?
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 …
Greatest batsman in Test match cricket today?
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…. …
Ten per cent of ten per cent of ten per cent is…
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 …
Does a tree make a noise when no one’s around?
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 …
Wages in 1595 were 45% higher than in 1960
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 …
‘A national consciousness unified by force SRT’
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 …
‘A kiss from the widows & orphans killed in Iraq’
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 …
A native Indian in the land of native Americans
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 …