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Everybody loves his own Jnanpith winner
The heat and dust over the selection of the poet, playwright and writer Chandrasekhar Kambar for the Jnanpith Award has subsided, but the self-inflicted sense of injury about S.L. Bhyrappa …
Naada habba with an eye on the North and West
The 401st Dasara is upon us. On the first day of the nine nights, U.B.Vasudev in Tampa, Florida, forwards a panoramic picture of the main Amba Vilas palace in Mysore, …
Do we have a right to know Sonia’s condition?
The veteran editor, writer and columnist T.J.S. GEORGE weighs in on the secrecy surrounding the health of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi: “Speculation and all kinds of gossip flourish around …
At 8th Cross, music that can move the mountains
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: North-west of Mathrumandali Circle in Mysore, perhaps at a distance of less than three fourths-of a kilometre—beyond the hordes of bleating sheep and a bovine assortment of …
CHURUMURI IMPACT: A train for R.K. Narayan
churumuri.com is delighted to record the renaming (and flagging off) of the daily Mysore-Yeshwanthpur Express between Karnataka’s two premier cities as Malgudi Express, to perpetuate the memory of India’s first …
Four reasons why ‘Tiger’ will never go extinct
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Mansur Ali Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi, was catapulted to the captaincy of the Indian cricket team at the age of 21 when his captain, Nari Contractor, …
It isn’t so easy to woo an iPhone4 user, Sister
Nokia is not in very good shape as fitter, sleeker whippersnappers surge ahead in the smartphone market. So, it’s pulling out all stops, like pitting Mandira Bedi versus, ahem, Steve …
