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Who killed MJ? Those who’re killing Rakhi Sawant
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Who killed Michael Jackson? No, definitely not his doctors. Nor his rivals. Nor the sharks to whom he reportedly owed money. It is unlikely any …
Sometimes you are up, sometimes you are down
Five months and two days ago, B.S. Yediyurappa was flaming mad when somebody pulled the chair from behind him at a press conference addressed by BJP president Rajnath Singh in …
CHURUMURI POLL: A Bharat Ratna for PVN?
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao is one of the forgotten heroes of Indian politics. He had very nearly retired from active politics and returned to his home-state, Andhra Pradesh, when Rajiv …
The difference between spiritualism & journalism
Shooting the messenger is the world’s favourite hobby. So, the media is roundly berated by media consumers as the harbinger of bad news. Media personnel have been termed by critics …
People, not the press, are the real Fourth Estate
The press in India, like the press elsewhere, holds on to the belief that it is the Fourth Estate of democracy, after the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, although …
Eyes are not just about the sight, it’s the vision
In their symmetry and synchronisation, visually challenged dancers showed they were no worse than their differently abled brethren in Bangalore on Saturday. The event was Helen Keller‘s Day, where 55 …
Michael Jackson’s oh-so-slight Mysore connection
Michael Jackson‘s impact on the Indian mind can be seen in the dance competitions on TV every night, where young and not-so-young Indians, male and female, flaunt the results of …
Boys will be boys, MPLADS will be MPLADS
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) is a very popular scheme among all MPs irrespective of the party or caste they belong to. Under …
Nangada loha purusha ittandu ulla kupyachaale
Electionallu chotitayithu ikka Lalchand Kishinchand Advani kodagara nalla kularlu aaramalu injithu ikka Siddapura pakkathulla Orange Countylu photo edupuchittandu undu. Pata: Karnataka Pata Suddi Idina kooda noti: ‘BJP chopaku karana Advaniye’ …
12 things no one’s telling us about namma Nandu
Nandan Nilekani‘s appointment as the head of the national ID card project has been greeted with the same seriousness that an appointment to the Vatican would have received. Sure, it’s …
Just in case somebody fails to get the message
Nela and jala, coffee and kids, Raj Kumar and Jaggesh, poverty and spirituality, state and nation… all colourfully comingle on an autorickshaw that also offers free service to pregnant women …
CHURUMURI POLL: Has Nilekani trounced NRN?
They both hail from Karnataka. They were both colleagues at Patni Computer Services. They are both co-founders of Infosys. Both are former chairmen of the iconic IT company. One is …
The unsung heroes in the dreams of Bangaloreans
Unknown and unacknowledged, soldiers from strange lands speaking strange tongues, toil away on the metro rail project on M.G. Road in Bangalore on Wednesday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
From Subramanya Folly to Subramanya Revenge
The decision of the B.S. Yediyurappa government to transfer the commissioner of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, S. Subramanya, has set tongues wagging. Was it because of his “inappropriate” advice …
Not this or that, this and that is the real zeitgeist
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Our education and what the elders call “values” are both based on what we revere as classical culture. But whether we like it or not, …
Sitting down properly is rocket science, actually
Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organistion (ISRO), K. Kasturirangan (left), assists Karnataka governor Rameshwar Thakur to slip into the couch at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in …
How Shahid Afridi knocked the hell out of Taliban
Tunku Varadarajan writes on Forbes.com that Pakistan’s emergence as champions of the Twenty20 World Cup, with three Pushtun players—-Younis Khan, Umer Gul and Shahid Afridi—at the wheel, have shown the …
BJP defeat is a defeat of BJP brand of journalism
PRITAM SENGUPTA in New Delhi and SHARANYA KANVILKAR in Bombay write: The stunning defeat of the BJP in the general elections has been dissected so many times and by so …
A rose by any other name is still a thorny lotus
Was the verdict of Elections 2009 a verdict against Hindutva? Was the elections of 2009 a referendum on Hindutva? Is Hindutva a way of life as the Supreme Court averred? …
Is ‘Dilli door ast’ for non-Kannadiga IAS officers?
M.K. VIDYARANYA writes from Bangalore: Is the “non-Karnataka” IAS officers’ lobby which is ruling the roost in the State, suddenly unhappy with the BJP government of B.S. Yediyurappa? There is …
Don’t swamijis have a magic pill for Mysore’s ills?
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Chief Ministers past and present, ministers and district in-charge ministers past and present, leaders of opposition past and present, MPs past and present, and leaders of all …
Is Yale turning India into a Dynastic Democracy?
ASHVINI A. writes from Bangalore: Scanning the headlines on the Deccan Herald website on Friday afternoon, I came across a Press Trust of India (PTI) report about Indian parliamentarians attending …
Why none of us saw Harbhajan slap Sreesanth
Shekhar Gupta in The Indian Express: “The BCCI has now come to acquire powers over media coverage on its own doings and performance that nobody in India has ever been …
A satirist takes on the star of the millennium
The reverberations of Amitabh Bachchan‘s blog comments on the Academy Award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire are now being felt in the “cesspool” of Indian journalism. In his reaction to the movie, …
It takes all types to keep a City clean and green
At the beautiful Gangothri Glades cricket stadium in the city that produced English language wordsmiths of the calibre of R.K. Narayan and R.K. Laxman, Raja Rao and U.R. Anantha Murthy, …