Every summer, doomsday theories about Kashmir get a new lease of life. But by all accounts this year, the valley is slipping away from India’s grip. A key reason, writes Shamil …
The prime minister rode on the footboard of his Range Rover for over four kilometres in Bhubaneswar as he proceeded towards a meeting of his party. As ever, The Telegraph, has …
The male parliamentarian of the year, “Prof” Ravindra Gaikwad, has been allowed to slap again. Because the BJP is a party with a difference… Because the BJP respects women… Because …
The Indian Express has an interesting analysis of the eating habits of people and their electoral preferences. Eight of India’s top-10 major states ranked by their preference for vegetarianism are …
Manufactured WhatsApp messages, in a relentless drive to brainwash uncritical masses to the dominant theology, try to convince you that India has gone past identity politics. They claim that elections in …
Kushala Satyanarayana has an excellent story in today’s Bangalore Mirror on an improbably named IPS officer, Vikash Kumar Vikash, being suspended from the Karnataka Golf Association after a tiff with an NRI …
Ranjani Govind in today’s Hindu has a story on “Subbamma Angadi“, the iconic Gandhi Bazaar shop that goes by its (Aadhar-linked) trade name Srinivasa Condiment Stores. Subbamma’s legacy products—chutney pudi, hurigaalu, and …
Tom Eaton, in this month’s Cricket Monthly, has some fine words on the man who used to be the world’s fastest vegetarian bowler, the “handsome” Javagal Srinath: “The guy was almost a …
SHASHIKIRAN MULLUR writes from Bangalore: It was the end of the walk. A lady asked: “Can you call Tipu Sultan a martyr?” We were a group of about fifteen, water in hand …
Ten years ago, when the pontiff of the Siddaganga Mutt was a mere 100 years old, an early-morning customer at the Shivalli Restaurant on Mysore-Bangalore road asked for Pongal. It was …
The BJP, Narendra Modi and his government make much of being crusaders against corruption of the Congress kind. Last week, in the greatest act of institutionalisation of corruption in post-independence history, …
Navjot Sidhu, the cricketer turned jester turned minister, wants to continue to appear on TV because apparently what he does at night is no one’s business. The jurist A.G. Noorani, …
There are many ways to measure human progress—GDP growth rate, Gini coefficient, Purchasing Power Parity, etc—but permit me to use an easier method: the taste of Thair-Vade down the ages. …
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