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Dear God: Do the Reddy Brothers pray like me?
It doesn’t hurt to pray, goes the old saying, more so if you are the bruised and battered leader of God’s Own Party. Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa, who, like …
Cell without a number, lensman without a name
A television cameraman on his cellphone blithely watches the sun go down on the 500th anniversary celebrations of the coronation of Sri Krishnadevaraya at Hampi on Friday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo …
Adolf Hitler and the rise and fall of the iPad
In which the iFuhrer und iReichskanzler gives it to, verdammt!, Steve Jobs‘s unmanly tamponieren, gives up on Apple, and hopes HP will get it right. Link via Aniruddha Bahal Also …
WARNING: this is not a film shoot or a trick shot
At the 500th anniversary celebrations of the coronation of Sri Krishnadevaraya at Hampi on Thursday, a lensman hits paydirt, capturing a micro-second of pure magic. Photograph: Mallikarjun Swamy/ Karnataka Photo …
Why V.S. Naipaul can’t quite understand Muslims
Jnanpith Award winning Kannada playwright and actor Girish Karnad in The Pioneer, Delhi: “Music is germane to Indian life. Through Bhakti tradition from the 6th century till the 19th, singing …
As the Bard of Bellary didn’t say: Topi or not Topi
At the inauguration of the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Krishnadevaraya in Hampi on Wednesday, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa respectfully admires the crown adorning Union finance home minister …
A video strictly not for Bhau Raj Thackeray’s eyes
On the Zee Marathi show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, Tamilian Abhilasha Chellam sings Aata vajle ki bara from the Marathi movie Natrang. *** Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries …
Hopefully, the Chinese are watching this salute
On the day the Indian republic turns 60, a screenshot of the homepage that no longer flickers as brightly as it used to on computers in China. After its belated …
CHURUMURI POLL: Padma Bhushan for BGS head?
If Barack Obama being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize within a fortnight of taking office and eventually bagging it was a page straight out of Ripley‘s Believe it or …
This day, that age, the mission got a statement
The front page of the Karnataka’s first English daily, Deccan Herald, 60 years ago, on 26 January 1950, the day India became a republic with the adoption of a Constitution. …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is India @ 60 crumbling?
Which ever way you look at it, 60 is a fine milestone. Institutions celebrate their diamond jubilee when they turn 60. Individuals mark their sashtiabdhapoorthi when they turn 60. But …
We could have used Photoshop to get this effect
But we didn’t. A snarling canine chases a winged one at Naguvanahalli near Mysore on Sunday. Photograph: Narayan Yadav/ Karnataka Photo News
Adolf Hitler and the rise and fall of the third IPL
In which the Fuhrer und Reichskanzler gives it to Lalit Modi and Wasim Akram and Mohammed Kaif and other delicious ones after he learns, verdammt!, that 11 Pakistani players—including Shahid …
Wonder what Bankay Mian thinks of the insult
There is not an issue that the Pakistani qawwal Bankay Mian does not tear apart in under a minute on Pakistani TV. Credit cards, GHQ, load shedding, Black Water, sugar, …
The curious case of the public sector showcase
Shyamal Majumdar writes in Busines Standard: “The Mumbai branch-head of a navratna public sector company wanted to replace a 10-year-old wooden showcase with something that occupied lesser space. He wanted …
‘Indian media is obsessed with obtuse authors’
CHETAN KRISHNASWAMY writes from Bangalore: On the many occasions we have swigged beer in Bangalore’s seedy bars, adwoman turned author Anita Nair has ensnared me with her intellectual vigour and …
Why shout for an auto when you can send a mail?
VINUTHA MALLYA in Ahmedabad directs us to the spiffy website of Samson, an autorickshaw driver in Madras, complete with an email ID for services. Call 98-408-42724 or email samson@tuktastic.com for …
Tala, tappadi, trumpets, and a high-pitched tenor
Artistes from Karnataka perform the dollu kunitha, the drum dance form in praise of god Ishwara, along side the State’s tableau for the 60th Republic Day celebrations during a press …
Name of tiger. Age. Name of father of tiger. Age.
There are no more than 1,400 left in India today; over a quarter of them (about 366) in the western ghats. But each one has to be counted, for that’s …
On the late evening before the promised morning
The traffic between silk board and electronic city in Bangalore on Thursday. Some of it will, hopefully, move one level up on Friday when the elevated road is opened to …
CHURUMURI POLL: Free to work anywhere?
Six days before the 60th anniversary of the Constitution of India, the Congress government in Maharashtra has behaved no better than thuggish political parties and outfits acting in the name …
The statement the IPL team owners didn’t make
CNN-IBN sports editor Gaurav Kalra dreams up a graceful statement that the IPL team owners could have made instead of the farcical reasons they have been trotting out on why …
CHURUMURI POLL: Has IPL insulted Pakistan?
There is never a dull moment in the cricket-cinema-commerce circus called Indian Premier League. If season 2 was held in faraway South Africa because of “security fears”, the third edition …
He was the first to do it; the first to receive it
Amid all the gloom over the death of a spate of movie industry mavens, some good news: V.K. Murthy, the Bombay-born Mysore-born cinematographer of all of Guru Dutt‘s films, being …
In an ocean of unctuous praise, islands of dissent
Jyoti Basu‘s death has resulted, as all death does in the eyes of a star-struck, ratings-driven, uncritical media these days, in a flood of faux reverence that would, in wiser …
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