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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 …
Why you never saw Mahatma Gandhi do all this
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. …
Who after Manmohan? Chidu, Diggy or Rahul?
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 …
When killing becomes the motive and motivation
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 …
‘Cross-border colonisation leading to annexation’
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 …
Prosecuted, fined, rejected & a Rs 36,000 cr deal
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 …
A slightly horizontal start to a vertical movement
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 …
If Naxals don’t, Didi will get you instant moksha
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. …
Tweedledum-bhai, Tweedledee-bhai & vice-versa
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 …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Narendra Modi next?
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 …
‘Reddy Bros have changed the political paradigm’
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 …
It ain’t over till the Eyes Man twirls and tweaks
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 …
‘Most opaque politicians in the democratic world’
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 …
Why is BJP backing Reddys? A: Sushma Swaraj
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 …
One question I’m dying to ask Yedi & Reddy
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 …
It’s still not here, but it’s kind of already here
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 …
When the Vidhana Soudha looked like Tirupati
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 …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Chidambaram a saboteur?
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 …
How (free) India treats Foreign Correspondents
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 …