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, …
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