When you are a journalist, it is ‘maha’ easy to come to the conclusion that a good life is not about getting rich or staying rich—it is about filling your …
The iconic British business newspaper Financial Times used to run a fine weekly feature, not so long ago, on the tables in the corner offices of top business leaders. The …
Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu got all the play on Pongal, but in Karnataka an equally gruesome custom of hurling sheep from a hill top on to a moving palanquin created nearly …
Praful Goradia, the tea planter turned Hindutva hardliner turned BJP spokesman, has a new book out—Fly Me to the Moon—and he confirms two very persistent rumours. That the then prime …
Nearly 40 years after the Mahabharata inspired him to pen Parva, the acclaimed Kannada writer, academic and ideologue S.L. Bhyrappa‘s latest work, Uttarakanda, based on the Ramayana, will be released tomorrow, January 16. ⇒Aravind Adiga …
The globally acclaimed wildlife biologist M.D. Madhusudan of the Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation shot this composite image of fruit bats leaving their abode at Kukkarahalli Lake in Mysore on Wednesday and Thursday. 100 …
What will McDonald’s proposed “dosa burger” be called? MasalaMac? McDosald’s? Or, will they stump us by sticking with good old “McDonald’s” itself and claiming that the capital ‘M’ and capital …
Jairam Ramesh, the Chikmagalur-born former Union minister and resident ‘Kautilya‘ in the Congress, has an excellent piece in The Hindu, on people hankering after prizes as Republic Day approaches. To …
The BJP in general and the Narendra Modi government in particular routinely fire from the shoulders of the armed forces. Vacuous adjectives like nationalism, patriotism and the “soldier on the border” …
RBI governor Urjit Patel hit the headlines yesterday when he scooted from the media to evade questioning by reporters on the sidelines of the forever “Vibrant Gujarat” summit. Although some …
The Hindu breaks through its self-imposed shackles with a sexy story from Siddapur in Coorg, where the Orange County resort is located:
If the report of the brilliant Om Puri not being able to come out of the trauma of a very public humiliation by Arnab Goswami on ‘Times Now’ is true, …
News that a grandson of Bismillah Khan sold four of the Ustad‘s shehnais to two goldsmiths in Benares for Rs 17,000 will surprise nobody. For decades, the maestro’s large family …
35% loss of jobs in micro-small industries, slated to go up to 60% by March 50% dip in manufacturing revenues, likely go up to 60% in next two months 35% …
Ten minutes into my first walk of the year, at the heaven-sent but Maharaja-made Kukkarahalli Lake in Mysore, I bumped into Manmohan, an old friend of mine, younger than me …
While growing up in Mysore in the 1970s, my whole world revolved around wonderful Vontikoppal. Actually, it didn’t revolve much, my world was Vontikoppal. My mother Sharada had walked—yes, walked—from …
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