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The spot-fixing scandal to hit Pakistan cricket only confirms a growing sense of unease about the game. The scams surrounding IPL, the haze of drugs hovering over some players, the …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji went on an impromptu fast on shravana shanivara. “Ajji! What’s the matter? Why, this lightning fast?” “Every year I go on a fast on this day. …
For months, the UPA mantra was growth and development at the cost of food and general inflation. Gigantic projects and investments at the cost of spreading Maoist violence. Infrastructure development …
India’s batting in the just-concluded one-day tri-series against Sri Lanka and New Zealand will surprise nobody who knows which side of a cricket bat to hold. Up one day, down …
Pride, three times over, is writ on Geeta Chopra‘s face after delivering triplets—all girls—at The Cradle in Jayanagar in Bangalore on Saturday. Naming twins is child’s play: Neha and Sneha. …
In his column in The Telegraph, Calcutta, Ramachandra Guha compares the IT frenzy in the Bangalore of 2000 and the mining frenzy in the Karnataka of 2010. The two phenomena, …
One common lament against the “future former prime minister of India” (as opposed to the “former future prime minister of India“) is that Rahul Gandhi‘s views on the pressing issues …
As if he wasn’t popular enough, home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram—the darling of the Hindutva crowd for his seemingly tough, no-nonsense, hands-on approach to Islamist and Maoist terror—has bitten the hand …
As usual, a dozen curious eyes watch Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa cross a road divider with customary athleticism, after inaugurating an underpass in Madiwala in Bangalore on Tuesday. Photograph: …
CPM member of Parliament, Sitaram Yechury, making his case for the Nalanda university, in the Rajya Sabha: “We are the churning crucible of human civilisation, and that is what these …
Banker-turned-novelist Sarita Mandanna‘s debut novel Tiger Hills has been received, reviewed and written about with the kind of unquestioning glee that has erased the difference between journalism and public relations. …
Nearly half a dozen English channels and a couple more in Hindi cover India’s stock markets. Another half a dozen English newspaper catch its every cough and sneeze. The treasury …
At an abacus and mental arithmetic competition at the national games indoor stadium in Koramangala in Bangalore on Sunday, nearly 1,700 children exercised their grey cells and mental muscles. Photograph: …
The American humour writer P.J. O’ Rourke says the Soviet Union did not collapse because of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher or Star Wars; it collapsed because of Bulgarian blue …
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “No individual or even private organization can ever do more than offer solace to a select few. Private activists are not to be …
The main Amba Vilas palace in Mysore, the cynosure of all eyes that now attracts more tourists than the Taj Mahal in Agra, turns 100 years old in 2012. U.B. …
On World Photography Day, well-armed visitors write thousands of words to the background music of a fountain at Lal Bagh in Bangalore on Thursday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News 2009: A …
Bruised and battered by crisis after crisis, prime minister Manmohan Singh has received a rare stamp of approval from fellow-sardar Khushwant Singh. “The dirty old man of Indian journalism” has …
The hand of India’s most famous newspaper cartoonist, R.K. Laxman, lies still in a hospital in Bombay without a pen or pencil in its grip. Not even sure if (or …
Venkataramana Pandit Krishna Murthy alias V.K. Murthy, the Mysore-born cinematographer, the first to be chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke award, on being felicitated by his alma mater Sharada Vilas …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: India’s one-day international against Sri Lanka, at Dambulla on Monday, in a ‘must win’ match was a well-contested one. But, at its fag end, it left a …
There are plenty of hints that Karnataka is hurtling towards the hustings once again: a high-decibel Congress padayatra on the illegal mining issue followed by a high-profile Rahul Gandhi visit; …
On the morning after, a Maruti Gypsy owner’s two best friends watch the passing parade of low life on Raj Bhavan road in Bangalore. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News