CHURUMURI POLL: Target Sri Sri Ravi Shankar?
The future Nobel laureate of India, Sri Sri Ravishankar (SSRS) of the Art of Living, is in the news. According to a PTI report, the 54-year-old spiritual guru escaped unhurt …
The future Nobel laureate of India, Sri Sri Ravishankar (SSRS) of the Art of Living, is in the news. According to a PTI report, the 54-year-old spiritual guru escaped unhurt …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I met the Ace Political Expert (APE) at Cheluvamba Park doing his yogic walk. After a couple of rounds, he sat on the stone beach. He beckoned …
It is rare for two columnists of diverse political leanings to begin their column on the same day in two different newspapers with the same words: “On June 19, Rahul …
In theory, the motivation for the upsurge in Maoism in the second term of the UPA is said to be the hand over of vast tracts of tribal land to …
Yashwant Sinha, finance minister in the former BJP-led NDA regime, had a well-earned reputation as “Rollback FM”. Given the speed with which key policy decisions taken in haste are being …
Future historians looking for solid, incontrovertible evidence on how a mentally challenged civilisation which couldn’t think beyond its arse, nose or purse, killed a fine City, need look no further …
Almost everybody seems to have an opinion, and not a good one at that, at prime minister Manmohan Singh‘s recent performance at his press conference in New Delhi, forgetting that …
The Union cabinet meets this evening to decide on including a column on “caste” in the 2011 censu, a move seen as a tacit quid pro quo for the support …
Any fool can steal some money, and many do. But it takes sizeable cojones to steal the machine that dishes out the dough. Which is what a bunch of desperadoes …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met the ladies and gentlemen of the Indian media for the second time in six years on the completion of the first year of his second …
B.V. RAO writes from New Delhi: On Monday, May 24, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address a press conference in New Delhi to unveil the report card of his government’s …
Death—ordinary, unglamourous, “smalltown” death—increasingly catches the English media on the wrong foot. Unlike “26/11”, in which almost as many people were killed in the Mangalore air crash, you do not …
The following is the full text of a press release issued by Environment Support Group, a Bangalore-based NGO, on the air crash in Mangalore. Doubtless, it represents one side of …
Death manages to inspire only cliches even among the best amongst us. But it takes a particular genius to be inured to it; to be so unmoved as to only …
Death scribbled an ugly autograph at Bajpe Airport today, but the book of life is really about life. Tens of hard-working men and women who shackled their seatbelts after dinner …
The tweet sent by 19-year-old Harshini Poonja before she boarded the Dubai-Mangalore plane last night. The profile on her blog, last updated yesterday, reads: “I am not done becoming me …
Photographs: Karnataka Photo News
Aeroplane technology has unquestionably improved by leaps and bounds. “Fly by wire technology” is a phrase that trips off the tongues of airline executives and experts, hacks and flacks. But, …
No profession in India—not even journalism, perhaps—has plunged into the abyss of disrepute with the speed and determination of medicine. Across the country, doctors, once seen as saviours next only …
* Write the future * Joga Bonito
Dear Shri Chidambaram This is in response to your repeated taunts in your NDTV interview that “civil society” must respond to the wanton killing by the Naxals. It appears that …
Exhibit A: Sachin Tendulkar Dalbir Singh, who was Sachin’s room-mate when they were 15 years old, is grievously hurt in a 2002 motorcycle accident with a tanker. He suffers multiple …
As night follows day, Monday’s naxal attack on a civilian bus killing civilians has predictably led to the usual finger-wagging against rights activists and, in the quote-unquote patois of home …
In the good old days, “government service” meant everybody in the service of the government, from the boss babu to the head clerk to the peon. But in new fangled …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: One of the popular scraps doing the rounds on Facebook is: “Thank God, India failed to scrape through to the semifinals of the Twenty20 World Cup! Otherwise …