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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 …
What Sonia Gandhi’s illness reveals about media
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, scooped by Indian Express photographer Anil Sharma, as she leaves her daughter’s residence in New Delhi on 14 September 2011. Nothing has exposed the hollowness of …
Does Kambar deserve Jnanpith before Bhyrappa?
The selection of the poet, playwright and novelist Dr Chandrasekhar Kambar for the Jnanpith Award threatens to go the way of the previous two winners from Kannada, U.R. Anantha Murthy …
Kambar and Karnad, Bhyrappa and Puttappa & Co
There are mole hills and snake pits and then there are “literary circles”. For all their bonhomie and camaraderie, for all their high ideals and even higher aspirations from humankind, …
500 TV channels, and not one for classical music?
There are few locations in the world where a Grammy-winning musician descends to entertain a couple of hundred people on a tiny cross road that is a couple of hundred …
Namma Metro as the metaphor of ‘Avara’ Avarice
Illegal mining scams, denotification scams, land grabbing scams, site allotment scams…. For a State that makes much of its nela (land) and jala (water), it is no surprise that all …
Chandrasekhar Kambar on our sense of history
The Kannada poet, playwright and novelist Dr Chandrasekhar Kambar has bagged the nation’s most coveted literary honour, the Jnanpith Award, for 2009, becoming the eighth Kannadiga, the most for any …
Is UPA hitting back at media for Anna coverage?
There has been plenty of buzz in recent days that the Congress-led UPA government has quietly begun hitting back at the media for the manner in which it has exposed …
So, who is the chief minister of Karnataka?
Every now and then, typically on a slow news day, a news story emerges, usually filed by the agencies, of a village in the back of beyond, generally in the …
Once upon a time, ‘society’ shopping on Sunday
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Today, shopping on a Sunday is synonymous with going to a slick mall or a supermarket where you can buy anything from shampoos to cellphones, from laptops …
To: Nikita Thukral. From: Kannada producers
The withdrawal of the “ban” on the actress Nikita Thukral by the Karnataka film producers’ association may appear as if wisdom finally dawned on the moneybags of the Kannada tinsel …
Why Nitish, not Modi, could emerge as NDA face
Shortly after the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, John Elliott, long-time foreign correpondent based in India, surprised and shocked many when he wrote in the Business Standard that Narendra Damodardas Modi …
CHURUMURI POLL: Rahul vs Modi in 2014 poll?
Plenty of pre-electoral chickens are being counted after the Supreme Court directed the trial court to proceed in the Gulberg society carnage case in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002. And …
‘Darshan scandal reveals Kannada bias, bigotry’
Although films and film stars, especially in the languages, have a huge impact over the masses, the mainstream English media treat it with contempt and disdain. The junior-most reporters are …
An insect from this end, a reptile from that…
Is it a butterfly? Is it a snake? Is it a piece of tamarind? Is it all three? A spectacular snake-shaped butterfly spotted in Karwar, on Monday. Just. Photograph: Karnataka …
CHURUMURI POLL: Should Darshan be banned?
The principles of natural justice in l’affaire Darshan Tugudeep have been turned on their head by the 42-member Karnataka film producers’ association which has unilaterally and unanimously “banned” the actress …
What Darshan’s brutality says about Scandalwood
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from San Francisco: There are plenty of things to infuriate a dispassionate news consumer watching India from a distance these days, but as a fully paid-up Kannadiga, …
Should Tirupati return only Reddy’s gold crown?
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: Hypocrisy is a trait that afflicts not just humans, but the gods who are at the mercy of humans, too. And Tirupati, which proudly …
CHURUMURI POLL: L.K. Advani’s ‘Antim Yatra’?
There is nothing more revealing in politics than a old, doddering politician who buries his head in the sand and tries to gauge the prevailing wind of public opinion. And …