CHURUMURI POLL: Should PM be under Lok Pal?
The hurried efforts to draft a Lok Pal bill, propelled by Anna Hazare‘s fast unto death in the wake of a slew of corruption scandals, has run into seriously rough …
The hurried efforts to draft a Lok Pal bill, propelled by Anna Hazare‘s fast unto death in the wake of a slew of corruption scandals, has run into seriously rough …
Cartoons: courtesy Keshav/The Hindu and R. Prasad/Mail Today *** Also read: CHURUMURI POLL: Why did Sushma Swaraj ditch Reddys? How the BJP completely lost the plot in Karnataka CHURUMURI POLL: …
The deserving winners of the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League get a royal salute from the man married to Sunetra Sastry. Link via Hariharan Natarajan
Sushma Swaraj‘s somersault with a mid-air blackflip, on her relationship with the Reddy brothers of Bellary and her role in their political rise and growth, is a mindbending piece of …
SHAH ALAM KHAN writes from New Delhi: In April this year the media went into a loud and vulgar rapture as Anna Hazare continued his four-day fast against corruption at …
It takes all types to give the shaft to graft. At the Bangalore international airport on Friday, a small reception party of Indians and non-resident Indians, assembles to welcome Anna …
A week is a long time in politics, especially if you are a dead Congressman. On May 21, the 20th death anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv …
Jaithirth Rao in the Indian Express: “The ‘liberation’ of Bangladesh has been presented as a significant moment in the history of free India, in fact in the history of the …
In all the name-calling and tu-tu-main-main that Karnataka’s politics has been reduced to, there is little talk of the other “2G”—Good Governance—that god’s own party boastfully promises from every pulpit, …
By BHAMY V. SHENOY Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has done a signal service to the IITs and IIMs by calling into question the “world-class” qualifications of their faculty Jairam …
As the Namma Metro project takes shape in front of our eyes, two contrasting images from two contrasting locations in Bangalore. The first, from in front of the pristine Vidhana …
M.R. SHIVANNA, the Editor of India’s most successful English evening newspaper Star of Mysore, passed away on Saturday, 21 May 2011. Here, his longtime boss and the Editor-in-Chief of Star …
As if to underline the adage that you should never believe something until it is officially denied, Ratan Tata, the chairman of the eponymous corporate behemoth, has officially denied that …
With the Congress-led UPA government once again dismissing governor H.R. Bharadwaj‘s recommendation to dismiss the BJP government in Karnataka, a quick recap of the amazing life and dangerous times of …
churumuri.com records with regret the passing away of M.R. SHIVANNA, an unsung hero of Indian journalism, in Mysore on Saturday. He was 55, and is survived by his wife and …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: On the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi‘s 20th death anniversary today, different ministries of the Congress-led UPA government are falling over each other to …
It takes all types to keep a democracy afloat when high constitutional matters are sought to be resolved on the roadside in a State ruled by god’s own people. G. …
Make no mistake, 20 May 2011, is a red-letter day in contemporary Indian politics. A serving politician, the daughter of a mighty regional satrap who is a partner in the …
While their politicians show what their hearts are made of every day, rarely a day goes when Kannadigas do not show what they are capable of. Here, Baby Prakruthi Prasad …
What Karnataka’s selfless politicians want is easy to guess from their sponsored trips to luxury spas in various seaside locations. But what do Karnataka’s people want from their politicians? *** …
The many moods of chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa and governor H.R. Bhardwaj, barely days after they were at each other’s throats, during the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Karnataka public …
Editorial in The Hindu: Bharadwaj has to go “Unabashedly partisan in his motives and actions, Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj has been, for a long time now, a disgrace to the …
“The endosulfan controversy is typical of India, of Indian politics, of Indian corruption, of Indian morality. There were 173 countries in the Stockholm Convention that debated whether or not there …
The end of the world’s longest democratically elected communist regime in Bengal, and its defeat in Kerala by a narrow margin, has been met with unrestrained glee by sections of …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: In the second decade of the 21st century, India has two Yuvrajs trying to lord over all they survey. *** The first Yuvraj is on the cricket …