Yedi is fiddling when namma naadu is burning
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: This picture, of school boys and girls, was not shot at some traditional gurukul in some god forsaken part of Karnataka in the middle of the 20th …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: This picture, of school boys and girls, was not shot at some traditional gurukul in some god forsaken part of Karnataka in the middle of the 20th …
Few events in our society shine a mirror on its inherent complexities more than the miracle that is a “mass marriage”. In a me-too culture teeming with meaningless, ostentatious weddings …
In the understandable hoo-ha over Danny Boyle‘s Slumdog Millionaire, it is easy to forget that there were others before the kids of Dharavi who set hearts aflame in Hollywood. Krishna …
For all the froth about not mixing religion with politics, the genuflection of politicians before “godmen” is a common sight in Indian democracy. From presidents to prime ministers to chief …
Now that all the major problems of the world are on the verge of being sorted out, it is time to listen to His His Holiness deliver his his sermon …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: That the Minister was not in a good mood was evident to the chairman of the slum clearance board, Shri Jhuggi, by the way the Minister twisted …
The Association of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Los Angeles-based organisation that hands out the Academy Awards also known as the Oscars™, has in an urgent press release clarified …
The general elections are clearly just days away from being announced, as a flurry of boastful and wasteful government advertisements in newspapers and on television seem to suggest, and one …
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Many say A.R. Rahman‘s music for Slumdog Millionaire is “noisy but nice”. That phrase could come in useful when you look at his oeuvre as …
Tunku Varadarajan in The Times, London: “Maybe it’s a result of 200 years of colonialism, but Indians are world champions at caring—really caring!—about what foreigners (more accurately, Westerners) think or …
A consistent criticism A.R. Rahman has had to face, including from fans and friends who mean well, is that he is more of a sound engineer than a music composer. …
ANANTH SHENOY writes: A big retailer in Mysore is running a ‘scheme’ for the public, offering to buy old rags for a prize! This has already been around in other …
The genius of A.R. Rahman—-audible to South Indian music fans for 18 years now, and today globally heard thanks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is …
He defied the traditional force of film gravity and took South Indian music to the North. He gained acceptance among Hindi audiences despite not knowing the language himself. He created …
Those who have migrated out of Bangalore will eternally argue about the merits of the benne dosa as served in Vidyarthi Bhavan over those served at Central Tiffin Room. Others …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I recently met the Ace Political Expert (APE) at one of the pubs. Both men and women come here to sit quietly and have a drink and …
A festival of Kabir in Bangalore. Monday, 23 February to Sunday, 1 March, 2009. On the menu: screening of four musical documentaries by Shabnam Virmani, and three evenings of music …
As if to prove that a cracked canine is running around biting hoodlums of the saffron and red kind, Karnataka medical education minister Ramachandre Gowda said on Wednesday that “modern …
In rural India id est Bharat, a “marriage party” is a potential mass funeral. Large, powerful vehicles stuffed to the gills with people, at the hands of poorly trained, drunken …
Not every member/ supporter of the saffron brotherhood, it seems, wants to turn the Mangalore pub disgrace into a predictable, boilerplate, caveman discussion on the threat to Indian/ Hindu values. …
When his elder brother gave him an album titled “Saxophone, Indian style” by Kadri Gopalnath, Rudresh Mahanthappa thought it was a joke. Well, the joke is now on you, anna. …
It takes all types. T.V. Maruthi, chairman, Indian silk export promotion council, provides a demonstration of what the human body can endure, on top and down below, in Bangalore on …
India Today has a cover story on India’s richest politicians, compiled in conjunction with empoweringindia.org, an initiative of Liberty Institute, and by god, is it a revealing story? “In a …
Elections are around the corner and CNN-IBN has launched a micro-site IBNpolitics.com to bring home the colour and chaos of the most cacophonic regime-change in the world. Kicking off proceedings …
Prof A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former head of the department of ancient history of the University of Mysore, and chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mysore, in Star of Mysore: “The year 1940, …