A couple of friendly interviews with friendly interviewers, and a couple of boilerplate statements, emerged from the self-proclaimed paramahamsa, Swami Nithyananda, after his videos rocketed to the top of YouTube …
Kanishk Tharoor in The Guardian, London, on the preponderance, rather the monopoly of “white” cheer girls in the Indian Premier League: “The choice made by IPL organisers in this regard …
On the eve of the dawn of his 103rd year on this planet, Sri Shivakumara Swamiji of the Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur, performs morning pooja on Wednesday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News …
Siddharth Varadarajan in The Hindu: “The Delhi and Gujarat massacres are part of the same excavated site, an integral part of the archaeology of the Indian State. Eighteen years separate …
In an effort to spread cheer and happiness to far corners of the country in these bleak times, the Hindustan Times corners the cheer girls of the Indian Premier League …
The self-proclaimed paramahamsa, Swami Nithyananda, caught on video and in full colour with a Tamil actress recently, has released the following statement, announcing his “resignation”. *** “Dear one and all …
An iconic movie house on an iconic road in Bangalore presents a picture-perfect view to passers-by at the front as machines rip through its innards at the rear. Plaza Talkies …
Firsttime voters Bhavya and Nikhila proudly show off the evidence of dipping their hands in the ink-pond of democracy at a polling booth in Malleshwaram in Bangalore on Sunday. The …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Does Mother Nature step in and take up the task of protecting her environs when human beings willfully start playing around with it? I have been thinking …
The inclusion of Ranganath Vinay Kumar in the Indian squad for the Twenty20 World Cup is much deserved, statistically speaking. But it is also nothing short of seismic, sociologically speaking. …
After days of speculation, the official confirmation. Former BPL scion and Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar‘s “strategic partnership alliance” with Express publications for control of Kannada Prabha is now out. …
Red chillies, green dhania, voggarane. Mass-produced majjige on a hot summer day has a taste all its own that hygienic, homemade buttermilk can never really match. At a temple in …
The election commission of India likes to pretend that it came to know of the phenomenon of “paid news”—advertisements being slipped in under the garb of news to circumvent expenditure …
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising Justices K.G. Balakrishnan, Deepak Varma, and B.S. Chauhan, while reserving judgement on actress Khushboo‘s petition seeking to quash 22 criminal …
While Narendra Damodardas Modi uses the thin line between a “notice” and a “summons” to put a spin on his non-appearance before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gujarat …
A front-page report in The Sunday Guardian, the weekly newspaper launched by M.J. Akbar, on yet another brave son of the soil seeking to earn an honourable living in these …
Few events in our society shine a mirror on its inherent complexities more than the miracle that is a “mass marriage”. In a me-too culture teeming with meaningless, ostentatious weddings …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: There are four great paradoxes about the long awaited elections to the Brihan Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) being held now. While the rule “of …
VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes: A few days ago, I had been to Chennai on work. The journey from Mysore on the Chennai Express was long, stalling and an extremely cold one, …
The Congress-led UPA government has moved a bill allowing foreign universities to set up shop in India. The entry norms specify a minimum corpus of Rs 50 crore, regulation (but …
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa trips and falls during a cycle jatha against rising prices in Bangalore in the run-up to local elections on Friday morning. Only pseudo-secular elements would …
Union law minister Veerappa Moily while receiving an award for his five-volume Shri Ramayan Mahanveshanam, yesterday: “It is instances like Sita‘s fire ordeal which firmed our resolve for the women’s …
Scratched furniture. Uncut toe nails. Hawaii chappals. A packet of cigarettes on the ground with a phone. Whose feet, as seen on Wednesday in Bangalore, could these belong to? Photograph: …
A bird’s eye-view of the M. Chinnaswamy stadium of the Karnataka state cricket association on the night of the first home-match of the third edition of the Indian Premier League …
The prostitution of Indian journalism by pimps, promoters and proprietors selling editorial space without letting the reader know what is independently verified news and what is a paid-for advertisement in …