Air Conditioned Vehicle: No hand signal, please
On the miracle that is the Indian road, M.K. VIDYARANYA captures a stainless steel shop on the wheels of a moped made by the old firm of T.V. Sundaram Iyengar …
On the miracle that is the Indian road, M.K. VIDYARANYA captures a stainless steel shop on the wheels of a moped made by the old firm of T.V. Sundaram Iyengar …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: It is now clear as crystal. Either the chief minister of Karnataka, B.S. Yediyurappa, is mortally afraid of annoying the Reddy brothers, lest it …
BHARGAVI S. RAO and LEO SALDANHA write from Bangalore: Employing a highly illegal policy, the government of Karnataka intends to restrict entry to Bangalore’s heritage Cubbon Park and Lalbagh only …
The Liberhan Commission report on the demolition of the Babri masjid throws no new light on the dastardly designs of its its 67 execrable perpetrators. What it does is throw …
Stories of employees of call centres and outsourcing companies in Bangalore working on major Indian holidays just so that their company’s commitments to clients are met, makes news every now …
OK, Rang de Basanti and Munnabhai may help us bullshit a bit, but does anybody have any idea how (and why) “candle lit vigils” have become a part of our …
With a speed that would put Manmohan Singh Liberhan to shame, churumuri.com is pleased to announce the winners of the Deepavali greetings contest. The first prize of Rs 1,001 goes …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has signed a contract with Nimbus Corporation for a jaw-dropping $612 million. The BCCI’s present sponsorship and sale …
The indictment of the entire top management of the BJP, including the party’s moderate mascot, Atal Behari Vajpayee, for the demolition of the Babri masjid by the Justice Liberhan commission …
Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma of the University of Hyderabad in Mail Today: “The label of India being the largest democracy is not enough. It is not sufficient for us to go …
Nothing is what it seems in politics. Once the manufactured fireworks over the leak of the Liberhan report even while Parliament was on (and then the hard thud of reality …
The former India correspondent of the BBC, the Calcutta-born Sir Mark Tully, on 6 December 1992: “I witnessed… many tragedies often involving people whose names will not be recorded in …
Depending on who you would like to believe, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is either a noble, benign, cultural organisation of volunteers, straining every sinew to strengthen the moral and …
After 17 years—three more than Lord Rama‘s exile—and 48 six-monthly extensions, the Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan commission’s Rs 7 crore quest into the “truth” behind the demolition of the Babri …
A classic cliche in Indian cinema is the criminal who tries to gain legitimacy by standing for an election and getting elected. Something quite like that but not the same …
India’s war on Maoists, described by prime minister Manmohan Singh as the “gravest internal threat” facing the country has begun to ensnare journalists too. Laxman Choudhury, a stringer with the …
Kunal Pradhan in The Indian Express: “At a Thai restaurant in Islamabad, after the first day’s play in the final Test in 2004, Rahul Dravid politely declined to stay for …
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa, and his cabinet colleagues (from left) Suresh Kumar, Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri and K.S. Eshwarappa are all smiles for the cameras at the BJP’s state core …
Ajay Sukumaran in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The man who performed the Herculean feat of getting the BJP to power in the south is now carrying out, like the Greek hero, …
Astrologer Veenu Sandal on what the stars foretell for Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa in M.J. Akbar‘s fortnightly magazine, Covert: “His stars indicate that his long experience of more than …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Luck, more than anything, has played a major role in the ascendancy of Jagadish Shettar, who has resigned from the post of speaker of …
22 students of a teachers’ training institute in Tamil Nadu get caught cheating in an exam using mobile phones. The incident happens shortly after the Kamal Hassan starrer Vasool Raja, …
Silhouettes are made of these: an early-morning sun, a river, a swami. At Talakad, the site of the famous curse that is believed to have rendered the Maharajas of Mysore …
Sachin Tendulkar‘s comment that Bombay belongs to India, and that he was a proud Maharashtrian but an Indian first, has predictably kicked off a storm with the hobbled Shiv Sena …
Does a “cultural” organisation like the RSS interfere in the affairs of a political outfit like the BJP? As Nitin Gadkari, an unknown Maharashtrian of unknown leadership skills, prepares to …