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The Class Monitor and the High Ranking Bully
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Once upon a time there was a Class Monitor. He had been appointed Class Monitor as the school teachers thought he was honest, sincere and hard-working. His …
The sweat of the brow in the art of the possible
Precariously seated, an artist gives the finishing touches to a giant portrait at the Chitra Santhe at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat on Kumara Krupa Road, in Bangalore on Sunday. Or …
How did Dharwad become ground zero of music?
Kumar Gandharva, Basavaraj Rajguru, Puttaraj Gawai, Mallikarjuna Mansur, Gangubai Hanagal, Bhimsen Joshi, Venkatesh Kumar…. The roster of titans from within a hundred-mile radius of Dharwad is long and illustrious. But …
Montek Singh Ahluwalia gets a Padma for what?
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Unlike the Padma awards last year which had the media doing cartwheels over the inclusion of the controversial New York hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal …
Three feet off the ground gives you a nanosecond
If this were a cricket match, the commentators would at this very moment be going over and over “slow-mo” replays to see if there is a ray of light between …
A cradle of civilisation, at its peak or its nadir?
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: Our 62nd Republic Day dawned with the morning newspaper announcing—or more appropriately, screaming out—the news of the brutal lynching just a day before, of a sincere …
At the quincentenary amid the rocks, a beauty
In the 500th year of the ascension of Krishnadevaraya to the throne of the Vijayanagar empire, the dancer-actor Shobana (left) performs at the Hampi Utsav, in Hampi on Thursday. Photograph: …
