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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. …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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” …