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CHURUMURI POLL: End of the Ayodhya dispute?
Using the “faith and belief of Hindus” as a key barometer, two of the judges of the three-judge Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court have ruled that the “area …
A view from up above of the water down below
Technicians peer down Crest Gate No. 11 of the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) dam, which breached on Tuesday night due to a technical flaw and the pressure of water. The …
How well do you know your Ayodhya alphabet?
On the day before, Bellur Ramakrishna stirs up the alphabet soup that is the Ayodhya dispute, garnishing it with the names, faces and jargon that have become an essential part …
A stylish lesson in humility from namma Rajni
There will be many tales told about Rajnikanth in the next few days as Endhrian aka The Robot checks in to a screen near you. Many of them (told by …
When a tiger has sex with a tornado: Rajnikanth
The release of Endhiran aka The Robot this Friday is creating sufficient noise in the media as almost every movie seems to do these days. But since it is Rajnikanth, and …
CHURUMURI POLL: Who will win Ayodhya title?*
Now that all the manufactured hurdles in the path of a judgment in the Ayodhya title dispute have been cleared by the Supreme Court, which way does it seem the …
Hindutvavadis have gorged on Ayodhya since ’47
On the day the judiciary put an end to the dilatory tactics of the executive in the Ayodhya title dispute , by ruling that the Allahabad High Court can go …
Why Prince Charles should not inaugurate CWG
With a cyclone in the chai cup brewing over who should cut the ribbon at the Commonwealth Games in the absence of the Queen, who should we consult for expert …
3 reasons why ban on cow slaughter is ridiculous
Vinod K. Jose, who watched cows in his upper-caste neighbour’s house in Manipal being looked after by a servant belonging to the Koraga tribal tribe who ate beef, on why …
Citizen-Journalist quiz on Commonwealth Games
Citizen-Journalist E.R. RAMACHANDRAN is pleased to present the Commonwealth Games quiz. Please fill in and send us your entries before the due date mentioned below. If you miss the deadline, …
400th year of Dasara, and we can’t remember?
GOURI SATYA writes a small epitaph for our sense of history, in Business Standard: “Dasara 2010 in Mysore due shortly will be historic. It was 400 years ago that the …
If we can send man to the moon, why can’t we…?
If we can send man to the man, why can’t we get our storm water drainage system right? A Karnataka state road transport corporation (KSRTC) bus lies almost completely submerged …
Just one question I’m dying to ask Suresh Kalmadi
The Commonwealth Games 2010 have been a stupendous PR disaster for a country that likes to think that it is racing alongside China. What was to have been New Delhi’s …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are modern spinners better?
First, it was the turn of a modern-day legend to slay an old one. Offspinner Muttaiah Muralitharan, who has endured a lifetime of taunts over his bowling action, hit back …
What she means is her portfolio, but she could…
The Twitter bug bites the newly sworn-in minister of Karnataka, Shobha Karandlaje, in a Freudian sort of way. What the controversial MLA from Yeshwanthpur probably means is that she has …
The Gateway to the South opens up once again
On the day of her return to the BJP ministry in Karnataka, 10 months after the Reddy brothers had earned her scalp, Yeshwanthpur MLA Shobha Karandlaje takes the blessings of …
Is media resorting to self-censorship on Ayodhya?
The run-up to the court verdict on the title suit in the Ayodhya dispute has seen plenty of activity built around the media. The News Broadcasters’ Association—the body representing private …
The world was at his fingertips till he went down
Between the final procession and the actual immersion, an idol of the four-armed one undergoes a minor transformation, in Karwar on Tuesday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also read: At 8t …
‘A party of loafers, thieves, liars, land-grabbers’
On the eve of a comical cabinet reshuffle that has seen partymen and independents walking completely out of step—one gentleman threatening to commit suicide if dropped, another counting his chickens …
Any resemblance is accidental & unintentional—II
A nice little slanging match has broken out on the letters’ pages of the newsweeklies over banker-turned-writer Sarita Mandanna‘s debut book Tiger Hills and simmering allegations that it draws its …
‘Untouchability wasn’t so much a sin as a crime’
M.S. Prabhakara, longtime northeast and South Africa correspondent of The Hindu, on the ongoing Brahmin-Dalit interaction in Karnataka: “[The] demonstrative walkabouts by Brahmin leaders in areas one shunned as literally …
You have got to protect two types of Mantris
A day after the shootout at the Jama Masjid in Delhi, the bomb squad gets to work on Cubbon Road near the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Monday against the …
‘Brahmins need a deeksha to awaken empathy’
As the caste and communal cauldron gets nicely stirred up in Karnataka by the competitive padayatras of Hindu and Dalit seers, the noted Kannada writer, Devanoor Mahadeva, turns the mirror …
At 8th Cross, even Ganesha wants a good concert
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The 49th music festival of Sri Prasanna Vidya Ganapathi Mahotsava Charitable (SPVGMC) Trust—popularly known as Vontikoppal Ganesha music festival; still more endearingly called ‘8th Cross Ganesha” by …
CHURUMURI POLL: Who will win Ayodhya title?
As if its thali wasn’t full enough, Judgment Day in the Ayodhya title dispute has landed in the UPA plate, sending it in a bit of a tizzy. Prime minister …
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