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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Posted on 30 April 2009 by churumuri
22

A VIP finger so right that it is almost to the left


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, …

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Posted on 30 April 2009 by churumuri
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‘Media’s Congress bias is ominous for democracy’


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 …

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Posted on 29 April 2009 by churumuri
7

One question I’m dying to ask… Sonia Gandhi


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 …

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Posted on 29 April 2009 by churumuri
22

‘Advani offers nothing creative, only resentment’


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 …

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Posted on 28 April 2009 by churumuri
5

All rise, the House is now called and is in session


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 …

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Posted on 28 April 2009 by churumuri
5

5 more questions for The Great Debator to ignore


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 …

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Posted on 28 April 2009 by churumuri
3

Thankfully, he didn’t need to strap a helmet on


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 …

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Posted on 28 April 2009 by churumuri
20

‘Don’t be afraid of Taliban. They’re already here’


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 …

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Posted on 27 April 2009 by churumuri
6

Because: Sun also sets over a ‘downmarket’ area


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 …

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Posted on 27 April 2009 by churumuri
3

Like in an ODI or T20 match, every single counts


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 …

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Posted on 27 April 2009 by churumuri
41

An epitaph to the literate, educated middle-class


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 …

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Posted on 27 April 2009 by churumuri
6

Eight more questions for The Great Debator


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 …

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Posted on 26 April 2009 by churumuri
1

One hundred and two plus ninety-six is about 200


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 …

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Posted on 26 April 2009 by churumuri
4

More things change, the more confusing it gets


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 …

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Posted on 25 April 2009 by churumuri
2

In the digital age, anybody can be a ‘mukhauta’


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 …

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Posted on 25 April 2009 by churumuri
31

The best political interview of the year. (So far.)


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 …

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Posted on 25 April 2009 by churumuri
3

In great IPL, what if Congress, BJP played cricket


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, …

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Posted on 25 April 2009 by churumuri
2

‘Everyone has a story about friends breaking up’


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 …

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Posted on 24 April 2009 by churumuri
12

61% vs 51%: so much noise for so little impact?


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: …

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Posted on 23 April 2009 by churumuri
5

Wasting the sweetness of reforms on desert air


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: …

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Posted on 22 April 2009 by churumuri
6

Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Can he?


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 …

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Posted on 22 April 2009 by churumuri
4

Our democracy’s quantity is all right. Quality?


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 …

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Posted on 21 April 2009 by churumuri
14

A civil servant, or just a very civil servant?


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 …

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Posted on 21 April 2009 by churumuri
5

CHURUMURI POLL: IPL-2 better than IPL-1?


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 …

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Posted on 21 April 2009 by churumuri
13

A video for the viewing pleasure of V.S. Acharya


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 …

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