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What it takes to alert people about snake bites
It’s a Hindi movie called Jan Leva 555. It’s a “romantic musical mystery thriller spanning 555 years”—and 15 songs. It’s due for release on October 19. And it stars our …
When the Taj group stole cooks from Amaravathi
Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times: It was in Bangalore – and not, sadly enough, in Hyderabad -– that I first encountered fiery-hot, non-vegetarian Andhra food at such restaurants as …
Since government work alone is not god’s work
Some of Bangalore’s hardest working men, workers on the Namma Metro project, take a breather near the Vidhana Soudha, the headquarters of some of Karnataka’s you-know-who. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News …
What Kannada racists can learn from a Raja-Rishi
The silhouette of Jayachamaraja Wodeyar, the 25th and last maharaja of Mysore—a “raja-rishi” (statesman-saint) in the words of a certain somebody—on Wednesday, as a sad and silly storm over a …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will reforms result in UPA-III?
A week is a long time in politics; ten days is an eternity. Ten days ago, the Congress-led UPA government was weighed down by the scams and scandals that have …
4 reasons why R.K. Narayan deserves a memorial
K.C. BELLIAPPA writes: R.K. Narayan is in the news again thanks to the objections raised to a memorial for him by a host of Kannada writers. The fact that many …
It doesn’t hurt to pray; it does if you do to plastic
A cricket idol (Anil Kumble, if you must ask) is appearing on TV channels, exhorting people not to use pick up synthetic idols made with synthetic colours this Ganesh Chathurthi. …
