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Uneasy rests the chair that mines the earth
Cartoon: courtesy Surendra/ The Hindu
Is the writing on the wall (and in the scriptures)?
A day after a cabinet colleague with a Reddy surname reminded him of the Krishna and Kamsa story, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa leaves the Vidhana Soudha after a meeting …
How they are ruining my beloved Gandhi Bazaar
ARUN PADAKI writes from Bangalore: The pleasure of shopping on Gandhi Bazaar Main Road in Basavanagudi may be lost forever, as an underpass at Tagore Circle will be in place …
A picture for the personal albums of the sangh
A picture tells a thousand words; in this case it encapsulates the hopes of a billion. The sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Mohanrao Bhagwat, delivers his thundering addres …
Is Brand Manmohan bigger than Brand Sonia?
R. Jagannathan in DNA: “One of the big developments of 2008-09 is the rise and rise of brand Manmohan. The brand is probably as big as brand Vajpayee was in …
The perils of page 3 journalism are crystal clear
The BBC’s star of the millennium, the father of Abhishek Bachchan and the father-in-law of Aishwarya Rai, in his own words. Newspaper facsimile: courtesy Delhi Times
CHURUMURI POLL: Will Yediyurappa survive?
Barely six months after bouncing off the runway, the BJP government of B.S. Yediyurappa has run into an air pocket once again, thanks to the peevish shenanigans of the Reddy …
On a slow news day, Lingo Leela pulls a fast one
A Manorama News videograb of Kerala health minister P.K. Sreemathi waxing grandiloquent on the ban on private practice by doctors, interespersed with shots from a movie starring Urvashi and Meera …
Let the rebels know, CM will not bow one inch
On a day when seven BJP ministers were enconsced in yet another “secret meeting” in Bangalore, setting off the usual suspicions, chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa was going around inspecting “developmental …
How a shutterbug with a stethoscope shot this
Bangalore-based Ajit K. Huilgol’s photograph titled ‘Leopard Descending,’ which shows a leopard climbing down a tree, has been declared runner-up in the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition …
Now is the time for all our Tamil brethren to rise
Prof. V.K. Natraj, former director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Mysore, writes an original and outstanding letter to the editor of The Hindu, a …
Did Manchalamma take revenge on Mantralaya?
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: It is three weeks since the pilgrim township of Mantralaya, the abode of Saint Raghvendraswamy Swamy on the Andhra-Karnataka border, suffered extensive devastation due …
‘What Muslims were to BJP, Naxals are to Cong’
Booker Prize wining author and activist Arundhati Roy in an interview with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN (to be aired at 8.30 pm tonight, IST) suggests that the “gravest threat to …
THE BRAZEN CONDUCT OF JUSTICE DINAKARAN
The breathtaking case against Justice P.D. Dinakaran has taken an even more breathtaking turn with the Madras-based Forum for Judicial Accountability forwarding a fresh memorandum of charges, its fourth, to …
India’s best editors, wiser than rest together?
Via Twitter, CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai, names the “most outstanding election analysts across channels” on counting day, October 22. His verdict: Kumar Ketkar, editor of the Marathi daily Loksatta, and …
Harijans had Ambedkar; Girijans have Naxals?
Former West Bengal finance minister Ashok Mitra in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The Dalits were fortunate to be gifted a cult figure in Bhimrao Ambedkar. He worked within the system from …
How a chief minister should drink tea. (Or not?)
On the day his party was tasting defeat in three States, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa sips tea the old-fashioned (down market?) way in the company of the (more suave?) …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is it all over for the BJP?
The return to power of the Congress-NCP in Maharashtra—on top of the Congress’ predicted wins in Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh—hides a smaller but more substantial subtext: the defeat of the …
Skylight through the roof and through the door
From what used to be her home and hearth, a woman in flood-hit Haccholi village in Bellary watches members of the “central study team” assess the damage on Wednesday. Photograph: …
When Priyanka meets Nalini she’s a messiah but…
Gladson Dungdung, an activist based in Jharkhand, a State bang in the middle of the “Red Coridor”, appeared on CNN-IBN on Tuesday night to discuss the Naxal issue. Dungdung, who …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will State beat Naxals?
Over 200 districts in nine States are in the shadow of Maoists. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls them the “gravest threat to internal security”. Home Minister P. Chidambaram wants permission …
Yella not OK, but Supreme Court silent yaake?
Senior advocate Anil Divan, a signatory to the original memorandum of charges against Justice P.D. Dinakaran of the Karnataka High Court, in The Hindu: “The Justice Dinakaran controversy is ‘snowballing’ …
The egrets have no regrets, or maybe they do
It isn’t just humans who have been affected by the flooding of the Tungabhadra. A congregration of egrets waits on the banks of the high level canal near Hampi for …
Is India taking a sudden right toward the US?
HRD minister Kapil Sibal talks of allowing Harvard and Yale and Stanford to set up shop in India. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh does a u-turn on climate change. Commerce minister …
Red Bull is energy. Purple Buffalo is electricity.
On the morning after, brilliantly psychedelic buffaloes gorge on the plantain leaves of a Deepavali afternoon, in Bagalkot on Monday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News