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On days like these, only Tamannah gives company
Loaders relax on piles of onion sacks near the Cantonment railway station in Bangalore on Thursday, as work grinds to a halt owing to the Bharat bandh in protest against …
What Montek Ahluwalia can learn from Sir MV
“I don’t think many Indians care about the country,” he (George Fernandes) said. “By Indians I mean those in the highest places. If they cared they wouldn’t have been looting …
The best advertisement for safety of Hyundai?
Driving on Indian roads (and returning home safely) is a daily miracle. Motorists and pedestrians encounter all manner of beasts trying to send us intimations of our mortality at all …
Can Veena Malik get as ‘dirty’ as Vidya Balan?
The Pakistani “actress” Veena Malik, who has arguably done more for people-to-people contact with Pakistan than all the mavens of the ministry of external affairs put together, arrives for a …
Bird brain? Finally a Kingfisher in good company
It speaks for the power of branding that Kingfisher is identified more for barley water and the mineral water after which a barely-afloat airline is named. But there is such …
Why does Mysore need Jamshedpur for water?
KIRAN RAO BATNI writes: The price of water has gone up by at least five times in Mysore, which is a stone’s throw away from the Krishna Raja Sagara dam. …
If stomach is the shortest route to a man’s heart…
B.S. NAGARAJ writes from Bangalore: Here is Udupi Pejawar Mutt seer Sri Vishvesha Teertha swamiji‘s reasoning for his opposition to “sahapankti bhojana” (people of all castes eating together). “Among other …
Why Adiga’s wants a COO for idli-vada-sambar
Vasudev Adiga, whose parents started the legendary Brahmins’ Coffee Bar in Chamarajpet, wants to take the Adiga’s chain beyond Bangalore, take it beyond the South, and take it to the …
India 2012: happier and more relaxed than 1975?
Media freedom in India id est Bharat has never been a more scarce commodity than in the year of the lord 2012. The fourth estate is under concerted attack from …
India’s most photogenic former CM strikes again
If only B.S. Yediyurappa wasn’t striking this pose in flesh and blood while visiting his new office in Malleshwaram (that will be inaugurated in Bangalore on Friday), his fans and …
How to launch a Kannada channel for Rs 25 cr
On the New York Times site India Ink, Raksha Kumar writes on how the Kannada news channel Public TV got launched: “I got these lights for just 40 rupees each …
POLL: Can Congress beat BJP in Karnataka?
There is nothing like counting your naati chickens before they hatch and licking your fingers in expectant glee. On the day sleuths of the CBI escorted B.S. Yediyurappa one step …
Sugata Raju is new editor of ‘Vijaya Karnataka’
Vijaya Karnataka, the Kannada daily from The Times of India group, has a new editor: Sugata Srinivasaraju, the former associate editor, south, of Outlook* magazine. He takes over from Vasant …
What should BJP do about Yediyurappa problem?
The BJP’s disgraceful nataka in Karnataka continues without a pause. Nary a fortnight passes without TV viewers and newspaper readers being woken up to the now familiar anthem of name-calling, …
An open letter to Aamir Khan from a Kannadiga
VASANT SHETTY pens a letter to Aamir Khan on the undemocratic ban on the dubbed version of his Sunday morning TV show Satyamev Jayate programme from being shown on Kannada …
CHURUMURI POLL: Mandira, Archana or Shibani?*
Yes, it is the silly season. First we had Mandira Bedi, the wide-eyed Punjabi girl who gingerly learnt the game with experts while she adjusted her noodle-straps. Then came along …
Girish Karnad: J.P. Nagar to China via Singapore
Girish Karnad in the Daily Beast: “Only 20 years ago, when my wife and I decided to move to Bangalore from Bombay, we could visit a new suburb, buy a …
Adolf Hitler reacts to Indian Express ‘C’ report
Just as the world was consigning the Indian Express ‘C’ report—the full page, three-deck headline, three-byline story of the coup that wasn’t—to the dustbin of history, the Fuhrer steps in. …
Should the censors tighten Savita Bhabhi’s hook?*
GAGAN KRISHNADAS writes from Bangalore: With the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 in place, internet censorship has gone high and degree of criminality has fallen down. Be it Kapil …