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On the eve of the commencement of his birth centenary celebrations, Sri Shivakumara Swamiji shakes hand with a simian resident at the Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur on Saturday, even as …
On the eve of the commencement of his birth centenary celebrations, Sri Shivakumara Swamiji shakes hand with a simian resident at the Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur on Saturday, even as …
“A lie repeated many times becomes the Truth” in the modern age sans any media scrutiny. So, it follows that milk and honey, and power and water flow in Gujarat …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Will somebody please explain just what is happening to B.S. Yediyurappa and his BJP government? The CM mentions there won’t be power cuts and just after few …
B.Y. Umadevi, a 37-year-old Bangalore-based entrepreneur who has never been to a “plub”, on chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa‘s announcement that he wants to curb “plub culture”: “If a woman is …
A digitally unaltered image of Y. Sampangi, the BJP’s honourable member of the legislative assembly from Kolar Gold Fields, who was caught red-handed by the Lok Ayukta police at the …
Following the Sri Rama Sena outrage at a pub in Mangalore, chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa has announced that he will not allow the growth of “pub culture” in Karnataka. In …
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: One of India’s most shameful engineering failures went almost unnoticed because the site is located far from our media hubs, and perhaps also because it …
NIKHIL MORO forwards a piece of feel-good wisdom *** A tourist visiting a temple under construction saw a sculptor making an idol of the Lord. He also noticed a similar …
Amrita Shah in The Indian Express: “The Mangalore incident has served to highlight an aspect of the Hindutva ideology customarily sidelined in the greater preoccupation with religion and anti-minorityism, which …
At the inauguration of a State highways improvement project at the Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore on Wednesday, chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa shouts silently so that tourism minister Janardhana Reddy‘s concentration …
B.S. Yediyurappa reacts angrily after another public boo-boo in Bangalore on Tuesday. The chief minister thought the powwow with the media was over and stood up. A security guard standing …
Editorial in Deccan Herald: “If organisations like the Sri Rama Sene are keen to uphold Indian cultural values, they would do well to draw a lesson or two from the …
churumuri.com is delighted to record that the writer and historian Ramachandra Guha has been honoured with the nation’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan. A well-wisher of churumuri since …
Mangalore is fast emerging, if it has already not emerged, as the “Laboratory of Karnataka”. The epicentre of communally mobilised politics for long, the region has seen individual and institutional …
More proof that the most imaginative cricket writing in India comes not from cricket writers but those outside the press box. Spurred by Uttar Pradesh’s Ranji Trophy showing, Swaminathan S. …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: There is much happening in Mysore but it’s all mostly topsy-turvy. They are trying to convert a bus-stand into a park, and a park in to a …
Fix the global economy on his first day in office? Reverse global warming by day 20? Establish world peace by day 83? Create meteor defence shield by day 94….? “We …
So far, so good. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh‘s repeat bypass surgery is over, and the 76-year-old has been moved into an intensive cardiac care unit for stabilisation, according to news …
The only legitimate reason the Sunsilk Miss South India or whatever contest in Bangalore is getting a few inches of space here is because it gives us a chance to …
KONDAVEETI DONGA writes from Cyberabad (with tongue firmly in cheek): Any dongamama who masterminds a scam and other such adventures to look good in the eyes of the world knows …
While the ruling politicians work overtime to push the fraud under the carpet (and the opposition parties watch on in almighty relief); while the media misses the woods for the …
On the day history will be made, a good time to listen to Will. i.am. The lyrics of the first song are composed almost entirely of excerpts from Barack Obama‘s …
On the day a very fine user of the English language grabs the keys to the Oval Office while millions egg him on, Alfred S.J. in Washington D.C., forwards an …
Heaven knows that what we need in these gloomy, recessionary, terroristy times is a hearty laugh (at somebody else’s expense). Cartoonist Prakash Shetty manfully steps into the breach with Vaare …