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From all of us to all of you: HAPPY NEW YEAR
churumuri.com wishes all its readers, in every part of the globe, a very happy new year. May all your hopes, dreams, prayers and fantasies come good in the year ahead. …
The nurse, the married man, and the minister
The inclusion of the dissident BJP legislator M.P. Renukacharya into the B.S. Yediyurappa council of ministers despite the charges against him, has been roundly condemned by the media and civil …
When Mr Ambarish did a better job than Mr Bidari
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: I love Karnataka. I love Kannada, I love Kannadigas. I love Bangalore, I love Mysore. I loved Raj Kumar, I loved Vishnuvardhan. But I have …
15 degrees of separation between Raj and Vishnu
BELLUR RAMAKRISHNA writes: Kannada cinema has lost both its eyes in the space of 44 months: Dr Raj Kumar in April 2006 and Dr Vishnuvardhan in December 2009. I have …
The Kannada constellation is now two stars less
12 April 2005: Kannada thespians Dr Raj Kumar and Dr Vishnuvardhan come together at Sarthaka Suvarna, a felicitation for Raj Kumar organised by the State government at the Palace Grounds …
Brother, father, son. Leader, protector, nice guy.
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: I woke up, like the rest of Karnataka and the rest of the world, to the news of the sudden demise of a man Kannada filmdom and …
CHURUMURI POLL: Vishnuvardhan’s top-5 films?
Vishnuvardhan starred in tens of memorable songs, but his brief guest appearance as a lecturer in friend Ravichandran‘s Grease2 takeoff, Prem Loka, brought an admirable lightness to the superhit film. …
Before the Sahasa Simha received Honoris Causa
Vishnuvardhan‘s long and happy marriage with the actress Bharati was one of Kannada cinema’s warm and wonderful stories; the couple one of the industry’s most dignified, on and off screen. …
The only time the two legends came face to face
The rivalry between the two titans of Kannada cinema Dr Raj Kumar and Dr Vishnuvardhan, more real than imagined, was one of the ever-green stories emanating from Gandhinagar. Oddly, the …
Vishnuvardhan, the Decent Star, is no more. RIP.
churumuri records with deep regret the passing away of the Mysore-born Kannada superstar H.N. Sampath Kumar, known to the world as Vishnuvardhan, following a heart attack in his home-town on …
Can IT-BT Bangalore produce another C. Aswath?
churumuri mourns the passing away of C. Aswath, an iconic voice that emblazoned Kannada theatre and cinema with folk and light music, on his 71st birthday, in Bangalore on Tuesday. …
‘Masth maja maadi for I am a WorldSpace widow’
RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: Dozens of fine people decided to take leave of our company in 2009: Gangubai Hanagal and D.K. Pattammal, Gayatri Devi and Leela Naidu, Tyeb Mehta …
On the ground, reality is no longer what it seems
Our riots are OK, because the Congress did it, too. Our corruption is OK, because the Congress was in it, too. Our unholy alliances are OK, because the Congress had …
Verily, the fruits of power can be so deceptive
To those on this side of the fruit cart, life in Vidhana Soudha—the power, the status, the intoxicating influence—is the stuff of pure fantasy. To those on the other side, …
Justice delayed is justice delivered to the wallet
VIDHI LIKITHA forwards a lawyer’s prayer advertised on the back of a car with a “Press” sticker in Bangalore. “May the case be adjourned, may the case go on for …
CHURUMURI POLL: Should Nurse Renuka stay/go?
The Andhra Pradesh governor, Narain Dutt Tiwari, has been “ejected prematurely” from his post, in the imaginative words of one headline writer, after a TV station aired a sting operation …
The compassionate humanism of T.S. Satyan & Co
Star of Mysore editor K.B. Ganapathy, a close friend of T.S. Satyan for decades, on the legendary lensman and his brother T.S. Ramachandran: “Though born to a Brahmin family, Satyan …
Dreaming in technicolour, DTS, cinemascope
In the film neighbourhood where a hundred-odd dreams take celluloid shape every year, Gandhinagar in Bangalore, a tramp gives his best friend company on a cold (and noisy) Saturday afternoon. …
Can Carnatic music do with a little more sax?
An evergreen debate on tradition versus modernity in Carnatic classical music has been revived with the music season on in full swing in Madras. Last Sunday, T.M. Krishna, while arguing …
Ranji Trophy & the David Coleman Headley chase
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I saw the the Ace Political Expert (ACE) near Nalpak Restaurant in Vontikoppal. It was a long time since I had had the benefit of his political …
One question I’m dying to ask… N.D. Tiwari
The most surprising part about this grainy video of a young woman smooching an almost-comatose body is not that it belongs to a greasy Congressman, but that he is four …
What is the governor telling the chief minister?
On the day the new BJP president, Nitin Gadkari, was grandly announcing that “indiscipline” would’t be tolerated in the party with a difference, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa was decorating …
Editors Guild of India on ‘The Paid News of India’
The following is the full text of the statement issued by the Editors’ Guild of India on Wednesday, 23 December 2009, on the issue of “paid-for news”: *** The Editors …
All Manmohan Desai needed was a one-rupee note
ANAND SANKAR forwards a advertisement from The Indian Express. The purpose is noble, to reunite the missing children with their families. And the details are all there: kid’s name, father’s …
CHURUMURI POLL: Bangalore airport, a disaster?
The joint house committee of the Karnataka legislature has slammed the holy cows of Bangalore and the multinational corporations that built the Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) at Devanahalli for “faulty” …