6
Getaway of the Louts in Gateway to the South
From the New Indian Express: # Nearly 35,31,918 metric tonne of iron ore illegally stored and exported from Karwar and Belekeri ports between November 2009 and March 2010. # Nearly …
Karanth, Kuvempu, Gokak & the one by three car
The conclusion of the world classical Tamil conference in Coimbatore has provided an opportunity for K. Vijay Kumar, former joint director of the Karnataka information and publicity department, to jog …
CHURUMURI POLL: Mandira B. or Mayanti L.?*
Now that the quarter finalists of the FIFA World Cup have been identified, the most tempting churumuri poll to conduct is, “Who will win the World Cup?” But that would …
Even the tallest of flying birds has to start small
A brand-new sarus crane (2010 model) watches her mother peck at a bowl of food at the Karanji Lake in Mysore on Monday. Photograph: Narayan Yadav/ Karnataka Photo News
The little trick Yedi picked up from Tricky Dick
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I was resting in the Cheluvamba Park after completing my rounds when I met my friend, the Ace Political Expert (APE) just completing his sprint-cum-walk. As we …
How will media react if Emergency is reimposed?
With nearly 60% of India reputedly being under 25 years of age—in other words, with three out of five Indians having been born after 1985—it stands to reason that the …
CHURUMURI POLL: Dismiss BJP govt in Karnataka?
Normal human beings can’t hide a simple secret. How on earth do the abnormal human beings who now lord over the state of Karnataka hide 5 lakh tonnes of illegally …
English news channels have 0.4% viewership!
Cynics and critics of the media cannot stop bad-mouthing the English news channels and their shrieking, shouting, table-thumping, finger-wagging anchors. They lambast Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai and Arnab Goswami, …
4 cars, 3 SUVs, 8 bikes and 16 autorickshaws
Devotees throng the ISKCON temple on Chord road in Rajajinagar in Bangalore on Sunday, overlooking the Namma Metro project, as the gopuras of two other temples in Mahalakshmi layout loom …
The crotch, the nose, the hand and your phone
On the one hand, the mobile phone revolution in India has provided cheap and easy access to the great unwashed. On the other hand, it has also erased the difference …
6 ways how every petrol price hike rips you off
GOVINDA K. writes: Last night, the Union government hiked petrol prices. Even before the official announcement was made, most of the petrol bunks started sporting “No Stock” boards. Minister R. …
Why does this poor, selfless soldier cry so much?
Never trust a woman who laughs too much, and a man who cries too much, is a bit of native Kannada wisdom that is clearly alien to chief minister B.S. …
Two lessons from Justice Hegde & Justice Hegde
With a 90-minute press conference bringing to nought the tens of crores being squandered in advertising the “sadhane” (achievements) of the two-year-old B.S. Yediyurappa government, the paid pipers of the …
CHURUMURI POLL: India’s most corrupt state?
The Lok Ayukta of Karnataka, Justice N. Santosh Hegde, has provided an appropriate curtain-raiser to the “Sadhane Samavesha” (convention of achievements) of the two-year-old BJP government in Karnataka by shining …
A picture not for the eyes of Shri Ashok Kheny
City slickers can barely get a good word in sideways about him. But an overly reverential party worker does not hesitate to show Janata Dal (Secular) national president H.D. Deve …
A silhouette coloured by The Great Painter…
A silhouette coloured by The Great Painter as he departs over the horizon at Kukkarahalli Lake in Mysore on Monday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
The curious case of Zakir Naik & Shekhar Gupta
The gentleman on the right of the frame wants India to be ruled by Shariat laws. He recommends death for homosexuals. He supports Osama bin Laden if he is “fighting …
Seven-and-a-half hours in the day of your CM
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa‘s media schedule for Monday, 21 June 2010. Forty interviews in all, in slots of 20 mintues each spread over seven-and-a-half hours, have been lined up …
Has namma R.K. Laxman drawn his last cartoon?
SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: A question mark hangs over India’s most famous exclamation mark after a further slip in health of Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, the iconic cartoonist of The …
Does Sri Krishna need Walt Disney for inspiration?
“Scandal” and “controversy” are the middle names of ISKCON. Weighed down by the dum maaro dum bestowed inflicted on it by Bollywood, the cult has been accused of being a …
A small lesson from Sir MV for our munde makkalu
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji was reading the Mahabharatha and closed the book just as I entered. “Hegitthu, Ajji? How was your Bharatha vaachana?” “Alvo! Karna’s extraordinary character is so inspiring. …
‘Indian daily journalism is uniformly second-rate’
Bill the bard, put it better, of course: “‘Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.” Aakar Patel is no Shakespeare, but he makes a similar point: Indian media …
An EGOM a day keeps the doc’s decisions away
A standout feature of the accident-prone second term of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has been its seeming inclination to act first and think later, be it the …
For once, please say ‘Thank You’ to the media
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy—not the 1984 one but the 2010 repeat—had everything going for it to be quickly consigned to the deepest crevices of our consciousness. A ridiculously long overdue …
It’s a miracle if or when you return home tonight
The difference between humans and animals is, well, how you treat other humans and animals. The streets of India that is Bharat, provides daily proof that while humans are among …