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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 …
What if Indira Gandhi had been shown this pic?
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 …
More proof Vidhana Soudha has gone to the dogs
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 …
Why Ram Pyari couldn’t take her daughter home
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 …
The wave that 160,000 cusecs of water creates
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 …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Mani Aiyar ‘anti-national’?
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 …
CHURUMURI CONTEST: What’s on their minds?*
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 …
