Harish Khare is easily among India’s preeminent political journalists, someone who knows both politics and journalism. Doctorate from the Deendayal Upadhyay Institute for International Research and Studies, also known as Yale, …
Exactly 15 days ago, Gauri Lankesh perished at her door step. Her killers shot her at pointblank range and vanished into the darkness that India is beginning to revel in. …
Helicopter rides have been introduced in Mysore in the run-up to Dasara festivities this year, and newspaper photographers are having a ball capturing the city from up above.
“Which Indian do you admire the most?” is a standard question in the modern method of televised interrogation because of a scourge called the “rapid-fire round”. Designed to make bored …
What is everlasting, and what is ephemeral? What is timeless, and what is temporary? What will stay, and what will go? The Magsaysay Award-winning singer-activist T.M. Krishna spoke eloquently on …
Even if you are a fully paid-up bhakt, with a blind love for the BJP and a visceral hatred for the Congress, it should be blazingly obvious in the privacy of …
If what is happening around you doesn’t move you, doesn’t scare you, congratulations, you have already taken the first steps towards the promised day in circa 2022. The excellent Gurgaon-based …
The role of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, in building the mythology around Narendra Modi deserves closer scrutiny than India’s mainstream media has been able to …
I Am Gauri. March and convention to protest the dastardly killing of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, in Bangalore, on Tuesday, September 12. Procession begins from Bangalore railway station at …
The hearse that brought the mortal remains of Gauri Lankesh to the ‘Veerashaiva Rudrabhoomi’ at the T.R. Mill compound in Chamarajpet in Bangalore last Wednesday, bore a small poster with her …
The airheads who have been accusing Gauri Lankesh of being a Naxal “sympathiser”— as if that qualifies her to be gunned down—are probably unaware of her most famous classmate at the Indian …
Gauri Lankesh didn’t call too often. But when she did, it would be late in the night and it would be a very long one. Usually about the various wars …
The Congress party has a knack for ‘khudkhushi‘ that is beyond human understanding. First, it sends an under-prepared Rahul Gandhi to be slaughtered by an over-prepared Arnab Goswami. Then, it puts out …
A secular sex joke familiar to those who Kannada comes in the former of a question and answer, a format known to and used by most godmen (and women) to …
The urban middle-class—armed with a variety of financial devices like fixed deposits, credit and debit cards, stocks and mutual funds, gold and real estate, etc—is blase about the ill-effects of …
Even if you are a fully paid-up bhakt sold into the bogus theology and mythology of Narendra Modi, it is clear that for all the bluff and bluster, the “Gujarat …
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