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The spotlight is now on ‘Make Up’ Naani’s son
In Lounge, the weekend section of the business paper Mint, the columnist Aakar Patel doffs his hat to Prakash Belawadi. The engineer-son of ‘Make Up’ Naani and Bhargavi Nagaraj who …
What could you want when you’re an MP at 31?
India’s youngest woman MP, the Kannada actress Ramya aka Divya Spandana, offers prayers at Ajmer dargah, the shrine of India’s most famous Sufi saint, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, on Thursday. Photograph: …
What Manmohan Singh should really be doing
As bad news oozes even from newspapers dedicated to making readers feel good—as growth falls, jobs vanish, stock markets tank, the rupee plunges, investors flee, gold prices rise, the deficit …
Is Infy becoming Narayana Murthy’s property?
For over a decade starting in the mid-1990s into the early 2000s, Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy enjoyed a well-earned, larger-than-life, holier-than-thou persona through his various public interventions. As politicians, …
Bulls, bears and the Animal Farm that is India
M.J. Akbar in Khaleej Times: “Who says no one listens to Dr Manmohan Singh? The bears do. Ever since the Prime Minister of India ordered Indians to release their animal …
Don’t you know, don’t you know, she’s very very
There are many labels the Kannada and Tamil actress Divya Spandana also known as Ramya has attracted in her chequered career: moody, hothead, temperamental, drama queen, etc. She may be …
What lies beneath the soil millions have walked
The Vidhana Soudha, buitt during chief minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah‘s time, may be Bangalore’s most famous building, but in the mind’s eye of the common Kannadiga, it is an area named …
Raksha bandhan in the Hindu saffron brotherhood
The conventional wisdom on raksha bandhan is that tying a rakhi symbolises a “sister’s love and prayers for her brother’s well-being and the brother’s lifelong vow to protect her.” But …
CHURUMURI POLL: Do journalists need a licence?
As if the “idiots” in the media didn’t have enough problems to deal with—paid news, corruption, wage board, 12-minute-per-hour ad caps, cross-media controls, job losses, recession etc—the Union information and …
Pink, orange, red and black in the land of gold
Ammerahalli Lake near Kolar poses for the cameras on world photography day, August 19. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
Can an all-time Karnataka XI beat Dhoni’s men?
As the Karnataka state cricket association (KSCA) celebrates its platinum jubilee, the cricket writer Suresh Menon compiles an all-time Karnataka XI, with a telling line “Humility need not be an …
How our first three Bharat Ratnas proved right
In The Telegraph, Calcutta, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the grandson of the Mahatma, writes on what the nation’s first three Bharat Ratnas—C. Rajagopalachari, Dr S. Radhakrishnan and Sir C.V. Raman—presciently said as …
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