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The BJP’s candidate from the Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency B.Y. Raghavendra provides visual evidence that he cast his ballot the right way on Thursday, while his father, the chief minister, …
The BJP’s candidate from the Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency B.Y. Raghavendra provides visual evidence that he cast his ballot the right way on Thursday, while his father, the chief minister, …
New York City-based human rights and media activist Partha Banerjee, in Counter Currents, detects an eerie similarity behind “the media-supported rise of Rahul Gandhi” as the next potential prime minister …
The disclosure by Indian Express yesterday that the UPA government urged the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) last year to withdraw the red corner notice against Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi …
Aakar Patel does an excellent appraisal of Lalchand Kishinchand Advani in Mint, the business daily owned by the Hindustan Times group, on the basis of his memoir: “If Advani has …
At the mutton market at Kalasipalyam in Bangalore on Tuesday, the honourable members of the House show more decorum and discipline than the hawks who swoop in on the hut …
Devsinh of Jalund Village has been fighting, without success for a road between Kalrada and Gamasana. Monghiben of Borij has to actually swim out of her house every monsoon. Ramilaben …
Former deputy chief minister Siddaramaiah hops on to a photo-op while campaigning in Mysore on Tuesday. But looking at the number of people lending him a hand, and looking at …
The clamour within the BJP for Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the party’s next prime ministerial candidate is growing with everybody from Arun Shourie to Arun Jaitely to Venkaiah …
Images, like words, are slaves at the hands of cliches and stereotypes. Therefore, the sunrises and sunsets in our mind’s-eye are usually silhouettes between hills with a lake or river …
The latest desktop calculations of the editors of DNA with the two main alliances and the “others” running neck-and-neck. An opinion poll reportedly conducted for a weekly newsmagazine by a …
One of the big cliches about Indian elections is that “the educated middle-class” voters do not come out to vote because they do not find the kind of candidate they …
The third instalment of Mallika Sarabhai‘s questions for the sitting MP from prime minister-in-waiting Lalchand Kishinchand Advani, contesting from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency: # What do you have to …
Hindustani legend Gangubai Hanagal, 96, felicitates Sri Shivakumara Swamiji of the Siddaganga Mutt, 102, during Guruvandana in Hubli on Sunday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also read: When Mewati gharana met …
Arun Nehru in Deccan Chronicle: “All political parties and important leaders play the minority/majority card and the interlinked issue of security…. “I don’t believe in the blame game but it …
Thirty-one years ago, when he was eight, his grandmother was standing from coffeeland in a landmark election after she had been defeated in Rae Bareli. In 2009, Congress workers go …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: It took one cookie cutter from Manmohan Singh to send L.K. Advani scurrying into the thickets of victimhood. In contrast, it can be safely …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: In a rare show of friendship and camaraderie amidst hectic campaigning, politicians of various hues got together and played a five-overs-a-side tennis ball cricket match in Mysore, …
Govind D. Belgaumkar reports on the rising tide of communalism in coastal Karnataka, in The Hindu: “The January 24 pub attack in Mangalore was just one of a series of …
Karnataka voter turnout in first phase: 51 per cent Average voter turnout in 2004: 61.4 per cent. Bangalore city average voter turnout: 46.66 per cent Average voter turnout in 2004: …
The economist Bibek Debroy has an interesting piece on reforms in the first 100 days of the next government, in the Indian Express: “Conceptually, there can be the following configurations: …
The official White House caption for this picture reads, “World-famous cricket legend Brian Lara shows President Obama how to properly swing a bat”. What would yours be? *** Editorial in …
Editorial in The Times, London: “Indians rightly take pride in a democracy that has survived dictatorship, wars, regional conflicts and the growing threat of religious extremism and sectarian division. The …
A. Surya Prakash boils down five years of Manmohan Singh to four men—Jagadish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, Ottavio Quattrocchi and Navin Chawla—in The Pioneer: “How will history judge Prime Minister Manmohan …
The second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is two days old. Compared to IPL-1, IPL-2 has been a decidedly subdued affair. For starters, even the biggest stadiums accommodate …
YASHOVARDHANA KOTE, in Chicago, forwards a YouTube video of a police constable assigned with crowd control arguing with and abusing an officer on the sidelines of the Aero India show …