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‘If they can’t eat roti, let them go and eat boti’
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: As I was walking with my hot upma plate at the UNI Canteen in Delhi, who do I notice sipping a cup of coffee looking in the …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Sushma right about Modi?
Yet another inkling of the internecine war in “Generation Next” of the BJP has come, with the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, brusquely turning away …
What what can can Sri Sri tell tell IITians IITians?
PanIIT, a conglomeration of alumni of the seven Indian Institutes of Technology, is to hold its 2010 conclave from October 29-31 in New Delhi. The focal theme of the three-day …
As Voltaire said, “I disapprove of what you say…’
Editorial in The Hindu: “In his classic defence of free speech, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill laid down what is known as the ‘harm principle.’ It postulates that the only …
ARUNDHATI ROY: Why I said what I said
By ARUNDHATI ROY I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public …
What the Gandhis could learn from the Nehrus
With over 400 government initiatives, institutions, projects and programmes named after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi, the historian Ramachandra Guha takes a trip down memory lane in the …
Why does the BJP persist with Operation Kamala?
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: One puzzling aspect of the political scenario in Karnataka has been the ruling BJP’s penchant for poaching the members of the opposition. One could …
CHURUMURI POLL: Arundhati guilty of sedition?
The author turned activist Arundhati Roy has been a compelling and contrarian voice with her views going against conventional wisdom on Indian elections and democracy, Maoism, the nuclear bomb, poverty …
10 steps to turn Vikasa Soudha to Vinasha Soudha
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Indra, the king of Amravathi, and Vishwakarma, the first architect, were flying over southern India when Indra noticed a bunch of strange-looking men sweating all over, moving …
How the Mysore Peta has become a turban legend
SHASHIKIRAN MULLUR writes: The Mysore Peta is traditionally made in silk, and ornamented with gold threading. It was worn by the Maharaja of Mysore, and by the noblemen about him. …
There’s a new epidemic called Road Widening
ARUN PADAKI writes: Just as Mysore begins to unwind after nine hectic days and nights, a shocker from the Mysore City Corporation. Two hundred and one, yes 201, trees on …
See, a brand ambassador always gets good press
Actor Priyanka Upendra nee Trivedi reveals her pearly whites at a media interface to announce the 12th jewels of India exhibition in Bangalore on Wednesday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is ‘Operation Kamala’ OK?
The resumption of “Operation Kamala”—the BJP’s advertised attempt to cobble up a majority by prompting legislators from the Congress and JDS to resign their seats—has seen a furious backlash from …
The giant violin-box hanging above ‘Parades’
A gaggle of eagles take a bird’s eye-view of construction of the metro railway station in front of what used to be Plaza theatre. The first phase of Namma Metro, …
A 21st century Adiga’s appeal to Kannadigas
Alarmed as every right-thinking Kannadiga should be at the State’s emerging politics, Aravind Adiga, the Booker Prize winning Kannadiga, pens a passionate appeal in The Sunday Times of India, titled …
220 yards is a long distance in namma Bangalore
PRASHANT KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: A week may be a long time in politics. But 220 yards is the essence of life. The politics in Bangalore stinks to high heavens …
One question I’m dying to ask H.R. Bharadwaj
Barely a day after B.S. Yediyurappa “won” a vote of confidence in a severely depleted House by a voice-vote—and barely 18 hours after he himself recommended President’s rule in Karnataka—governor …
Say hello to the sarsanghchalak of ‘Ling Parivar’
M.P. Renukacharya, the poster-boy of the “party with differences”, waits for his turn as chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa takes the lift to leave the Vidhana Soudha, shortly after “winning” the …
Nothing is what it seems when scoundrels meet
Indian politicians, cutting across party lines, cutting across States, have two, standard quotable quotes for the camera. One, “nothing is impossible in politics”. And two, “there are no permanent friends …
When cops had to be called in to save the crooks
11 October 2010 will go down in the annals (and anus) of Karnataka politics for a number of execrable reasons, but also for the role played by the police commissioner …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Yediyurappa safe for now?
After collecting the blessings of all the gods, after disqualifying the “rebel” MLAs, after getting into a slanging match with the governor, after barring the “black sheep” from entering the …
The shadow boxing of old rivals in a new bottle
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: The two key players in the latest round of the political tamasha currently underway in Karnataka are the inveterate political rivals, former chief minister, …
Who are the Suresh Kalmadis at work in Mysore?
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: Our Dasara which is an annual event, unlike the Commonwealth Games, has already started. But like the Commonwealth Games, at least in the Indian version of …
Why Karnataka politics has reached this sad state
KIRAN RAO BATNI writes: The now out-in-the-open fissiparous tendencies in Karnataka’s BJP government can make anybody question whether State politics in Karnataka can ever rise above corruption, in-fighting, inefficiency, ignorance …
History repeats, first as farce, then as tragedy
The BJP’s “Gateway to the South” is riddled with so many holes that it is beginning to look like Swiss cheese. And dissidents and rebels raise their head so regularly …