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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. …
Sai Baba couldn’t make Tharoor win. At least…
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, who is also in charge of the ministry of drinking water and sanitation, throws a new challenge: “If Uttar Pradesh becomes open defecation-free in …
Shhh: India’s best mango pickles come from here
D.P. SATISH writes from New Delhi: This small, Mangalore-tiled house is a landmark in Sagar in the Malnad region of Karnataka. Seetharama Bhat, who is famously known as Uppinakayi Bhattru …
A hero who served the living & dead of all castes
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: Last week, Mysore saw the passing away of a man whom most people of any substance will perhaps never miss. But the less fortunate ones amongst …
A picture is worth a thousand buses (and autos)
On the day the city bus terminal at “Majestic”, aka Kempe Gowda bus station, at Subhashnagar in Bangalore wore what tomorrow morning’s newspapers will call a “deserted look”, autorickshaws whizzed …
How ‘trial by media’ turned into media on trial
Is it a good thing that the Supreme Court of India has not announced clearcut guidelines for media coverage of court cases? Or has it opened the floodgates by introducing …
Corruption, religion, spirituality & the Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama at a seminar organised by the Ramakrishna mission in New Delhi on Tuesday, quoted in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “I recently went to Ladakh and someone told me, …
Kannada Prabha owner among top political donors
Mobile phone turned media baron and member of Parliament, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, continues to be a prominent donor to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, according to a list compiled …
CHURUMURI POLL: Who could be NDA’s PM?
The BJP’s race of aspiring (and perspiring) prime ministerial contenders is growing long—and wagging. On top of the pile, as always, is the “former future prime minister” himself, Lalchand Kishinchand …
Not quite the Hero who’d say ‘It’s a boy thing’
On Magadi Road in Bangalore on Sunday, an artist gives the final touches to an idol of Ganesha, astride on a motorcycle, shelya flying in the air, as Ganesh Chathurthi …
‘We are really guests at the dinner party of life’
The British academic and philosopher A.C. Grayling in conversation with Srijana Mitra Das, in The Times of India: In turbulent times, can people achieve a state of reason? An individual …
What’s in a name? A train service? A megastore?
Not a new logo for the Bangalore metro, just construction work happening for the railway project outside the German shop-for-shopkeers in Yeshwanthpur. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also view: The complete …
Writer owns up to breaking lamp, 68 years later
From Star of Mysore: Mysore, September 6: People usually like to forget the mistakes they committed in the past and would seldom want to recall them. But here is a …
Is slamming PM, government ‘yellow journalism’?
The Washington Post newspaper has put in print just about everything that an ordinary Indian thinks about prime minister Manmohan Singh as he presides majestically over scam after earth (and …
You can jump 1.74m but only if you think you can
At the Paralympics in London, G.H. Nagaraje Gowa aka Girish Hosanagara Nagaraje Gowda opens India’s medals tally with a silver in the men’s high jump finals. Photograph: courtesy Getty via …
How much is one divided by zero? Don’t ask…
The chairman of the press council of India, Justice Markandey Katju, wrote an article in The Hindu on September 3 on education. Titled ‘Professor, heal thyself’, it contained this paragraph: …
The kleptocratic republic of India that is Bharat
T.N. Ninan in the Business Standard: “The coal scandal began with revelations about the Manmohan Singh government, then expanded in scope to take in the Vajpayee government, and has now …