First Maneka Gandhi was unceremoniously kicked out of the Indira Gandhi household in an episode that presaged the saas-bahu TV serials by about two decades. Now, her late husband, Sanjay …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: There is an air of unreality even as the three major political parties in the State flex their muscle in the panchayat elections now …
Middle age is when one of your shoe laces comes off and you wonder if you should bend down now and tie it up, or wait for some time for …
After a week’s break, churumuri returns to recognise the use of its bastardised namesake as an election tool in Reddy country. From a report in Deccan Herald: “As usual, the …
Respected Dr Roy, I am writing to apply for the post of Group Editor, English News, NDTV. I am a journalist with 26 years’ experience. Throughout my career I have …
For weeks, the bush telegraph in Delhi was abuzz with rumours that the Wikileak cables on India would contain something damaging about Rahul Gandhi‘s proclivities. But when it arrived this …
Deccan Herald and Praja Vani cartoonist P. Mahmud‘s take on the writer S.L. Bhyrappa‘s description of the people of Karnataka as tarlegalu (a bunch of good-for-nothing whiners), in the weekly …
Grandstanding on ethics and principles is a perilous path to take for Indian businessmen—even for a corporate biggie with the kind of image as the House of Tatas. Ratan Tata …
After living together, dining together and travelling together, the pyres burn together on the return journey for the thirty victims of Tuesday’s tragic road accident near Mysore. The accident, on …
Editors, anchors, columnists, correspondents… tens of media personnel have been badly mauled in the eyes of news consumers, in the Niira Radia scandal. But do the proprietors and managers really …
Generally speaking, Indian business is a nice, cosy club of stuffed shirts and suspenders. There are a set of rules and everyone plays along happily. No one ever says anything …
Vishweshwar Bhat‘s exit from Vijaya Karnataka yesterday has been treated by the paper’s owners and managers with the same contemptible gracelessness that has been the hallmark of their conduct vis-a-vis …
Times VPL chief executive officer Sunil Rajshekhar‘s “office advice” on the sudden exit of Vijaya Karnataka editor, Vishweshwar Bhat, and announcing the in-charge editor, E.Raghavan.
Vishweshwar Bhat, the popular yet controversial editor of Vijaya Karnataka, the mass-circulation Kannada daily owned by The Times of India group, has resigned. Bhat’s decision was announced to his staff …
In the kerfuffle over the Niira Radia tapes in the 2g spectrum allocation scam, the sanctimonious outpourings of Ratan Tata have been little short of breathtaking: speaking of a bribe …
Bangalore-based political scientist Sandeep Shastri in the Indian Express: “Every passing day brings an alarming new twist to Karnataka’s politics, with the competitive exposure of corruption between various political forces…. …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji, fully covered in her shawl, had just finished her pooja of margashira masa, heralding the start of winter season. “Yeno anyaya? Looks like the whole of …
Nearly 30 years after it was made on a shorter than shoestring budget, the Kundan Shah-directed caper Jaane bhi do yaaro remains one of Bollywood’s most loved movies, presciently squatting …
SHASHIKIRAN MULLUR writes from Bangalore: Across towns, most hoardings are taken by jewellers and a number of them are a lush purple with diamond rings on them. The jewellery stores …
With a cloud of suspicion hovering over the credibility of the bold-faced names of Indian media following the Niira Radia tapes—and institutional disasters such as paid news, private treaties, medianet …
Ashok V. Desai in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The British invented, and gave to India, a bureaucracy that was selected on merit, paid well enough not to have to be corrupt, …