After prescribing austerity for “cattle-class” plebians, and proscribing SUVs for the super-rich, the national advisory council (NAC) has mooted “one dish per meal” at social functions like weddings and funerals …
Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, has used the example of Tipu Sultan to illustrate the point that Hindu-Muslim relations suffer from the rewriting of history to project Muslim rulers …
SAGGERE RAMASWAMY writes from Bangalore: In my 25 years as a photojournalist, I met Dr Raj Kumar in person five times and learnt five things from him: simplicity, punctuality, dedication, …
VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes: Satya Sai Baba is now reported to be in a critical condition and the battlelines to take over one of the wealthiest Trusts in the nation are …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: Just two short weeks ago I, or for that matter most Indians, hardly knew that a man called Anna Hazare, a former soldier turned social activist, …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: The Indian Express of Ramnath Goenka is an unputdownable chapter in the book of Indian journalism. Unlike many of its English counterparts—whose grammar was …
A bolt of lightning strikes a nice continuum with the canopy of the Jayachamarajendra Circle on a cloudy evening, as the lights come on in the main Amba Vilas palace …
Following the Bogus Austerity Drama of 2009, when ministers began flying “cattle-class” after S.M. Krishna and Shashi Tharoor were caught in five-star hotels, the Union food and consumer affairs minister …
Sanjaya Baru, editor of Business Standard and former media advisor to prime minister Manmohan Singh, delivered the second H.Y. Sharada Prasad memorial lecture on media, business and government at the …
In normal circumstances, the exit of a lone individual from a giant company would not have attracted too much attention. But then, T.V. Mohandas Pai is no ordinary employee; he was …
As he gets off the stage at a convention of areca nut growers in Sullia taluk, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa—whose has artfully survived efforts to dislodge him by his …
What is it with actors and actresses—Akshay Kumar in Hindi, Shivraj Kumar and his brother Puneet in Kannada, Prabhu in Tamil, etc—so readily endorsing jewel stores, exhibitions and exchanges? Is …
A South Indian view of national politics is largely, if not completely, missing from Indian media, including and especially South Indian media. It is almost as if all wisdom on …
T.J.S. GEORGE in The Sunday Express: “Television has spawned many evils. One of them is the animal called ‘party spokesperson’, a species that is found only in India. By occupational …
BHAMY V. SHENOY writes: I was shocked to read a news item in today’s Deccan Herald—“If Gandhi were alive, he would have been corrupt: HDK”—in which the former chief minister, …
The Kannada cinema industry is, well, an industry. Dubuious producers put money in an obscene number of films, only a few of which even recover their money. Nepotism is the …
Every third lie is a statistic, and the provisional figures of the 2011 census brings home the truth. In the decadal account book, literacy is up by 9.21% in India …
Mid-day meal workers who took part in a rally in Bangalore on a hot Friday afternoon, peer through the gates of the Maha Bodhi Society in Gandhinagar, looking for someone …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: The fast-unto-death by the social activist Anna Hazare in New Delhi and the nationwide support it has elicited for cleansing the system, has enormous …
All kinds of trippy adjectives have been used since Tuesday. That he is the Mahatma of the 21st century. That this is the second freedom movement. That this is India’s …
When the “good doctor from the University of Southern California University” outsourced a cheer leading squad from the Washington Redskins for the first edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), …
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa‘s alacrity in announcing the allotment of 50’x80’ house sites to each member of the World Cup winning cricket team is not surprising—nor is the tepid …
churumuri.com wishes you and your family a very happy Ugadi. May all your dreams, hopes, prayers and fantasies come good in the year ahead. And may the best kaayi holige …
R.K. Laxman may have made his name after a lifetime at The Times of India, but it was for a small Kannada humour monthly called Koravanji that the Mysore-born cartoonist …
BELLUR RAMAKRISHNA forwards a collage of today’s newspaper from heralding India’s magnificent triumph in the 2011 World Cup (click on the image for a larger view). You can see an …