Another un-Gandhian on the way to Mahatma giri
Nothing reveals the disconnect between the Gandhian mode of protest that is the pada yatra, and the un-Gandhians who undertake it to attain his aura, than the spectacle of Congressmen …
Nothing reveals the disconnect between the Gandhian mode of protest that is the pada yatra, and the un-Gandhians who undertake it to attain his aura, than the spectacle of Congressmen …
The cover of the 9 August 2010 issue of Time magazine. For a change, all four editions—US, Europe, Asia and South Pacific—have the same cover story. Time‘s choice is doubtless …
As the people of a State that used to be once known for its “decency” watch its rapid and seemingly relentless slide into the abyss of competitive sleaze, corruption, crime …
SHAH ALAM KHAN writes from New Delhi: The so-called “irresponsible remarks” by Mani Shankar Aiyar on the Commonwealth Games have left the government and its beloved babus fuming. The mainstream …
Water gushes out of the Narayanapura dam in Yadgir district, whipping up a sinusoidal wave, after authorities opened 15 sluice gates on Thursday following copious rain. The water level in …
The Oxford-educated IFS officer turned Congress politician, Mani Shankar Aiyar—the man who introduced the word ‘limpets‘ into the political discourse—has flung a small pebble into his rasam tumbler, by publicly …
At a public meeting at Dabbaspet during the Bangalore-Bellary padayatra on Tuesday, former Union civil aviation minister C.M. Ibrahim does last-minute pushups with his eyelids, leader of the opposition Siddaramaiah …
After two days on the road to Bellary, the leader of the opposition in the Karnataka legislative assembly, Siddaramaiah, provides a telling epitaph for the modern, well-fed, unfit, disconnected politician. …
It’s a free for all in the Congress. Everybody’s happily taking on everybody. But the key war of words is the one between P. Chidambaram and party general secretary Digvijay …
Nothing has brought home to decent, ordinary, law-abiding, apolitical Indians the brazen disregard for the law of the land of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) than its verbal callisthenics and …
Supreme Court advocate Rajeev Dhavan weighs in on the Belgaum row between Karnataka and Maharashta, in Mail Today: “If the Belgaum agitation is taken seriously, India’s federated states will never …
B.S. NAGARAJ writes from New Delhi: “We are pure gold, 24-carat gold,” declared Gali Janardhana Reddy last week with the same innocence with which he is profiled on the Bramhani …
Congress worker Pampakavi Belagali, who collapsed at the launch of the party’s Bangalore to Bellary padayatra, being carried to the hospital by co-workers, in Bangalore on Sunday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji was watching the gas cutters extracting the dead bodies and near-alive ones on TV. Horror was writ on her face. “What a terrible way to die. …
Sheela Bhatt on rediff.com: “He is, obviously, a shrewd politician. He is a 24/7 politician. He also knew political management. He ridiculed Congressmen with his superiority complex and sharp observations—almost …
Turning down a request for more time, the central bureau of investigation (CBI) has chargesheeted Gujarat’s minister of state for home, Amit Shah, with a criminal conspiracy to abduct and …
CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai in the Hindustan Times: “The Reddy brothers have overturned the traditional rules of Indian politics. “Conventional wisdom suggests that caste is the key determinant of political …
Prem Panicker on Muttiah Muralitharan: “Sport is relatively easy to write: angels and demons, heroes and villains, triumphs and tragedies, neatly linear narratives in a way the world, shaded in …
Sadanand Dhume in The Wall Street Journal: “The Gandhis are probably the most opaque major politicians in the democratic world. They rarely speak to the media, and when they do …
By T.J.S. GEORGE Cicero was a Roman orator and statesman of the 1st century BC whose writings deeply influenced modern thought. He was once retained by Sicilians to prosecute the …
After weeping and prevaricating for a fortnight, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa has issued a “101 per cent” clean chit to the Reddy brothers in the mining issue from a …
Even as the excavators pile up debris as tall as the public utility buildings Visvesvaraya Towers for the Namma Metro project, weekend travellers take a trip to nowhere in the …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Assembly hall of the Vidhana Soudha had gradually turned into a must-see tourist spot in Bangalore beating the likes of Dodda Ganapathy, museum, Bannerghatta zoo, Lal …
Of all the millions of words that have been expended since Thursday night to examine and re-examine the collapse of the Indo-Pak talks into a slugfest between the two subcontinental …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Indian politicians and patriots have long held the belief that the “western” media only relays bad news from Bharat. That, despite all the towering …