‘In backing the Lingayat agitation, Congress is resorting to religious fundamentalism like BJP’
With just about six months to go for the Assembly elections in Karnataka, it is fair to say that the BJP is beginning on the back foot. There are two …
With just about six months to go for the Assembly elections in Karnataka, it is fair to say that the BJP is beginning on the back foot. There are two …
Regardless of who wins the assembly elections in Gujarat next month, one thing is for sure: the poll campaign—so far—has presented a glimpse of two competing styles to attain or …
It’s a national shame that as important a day as ‘Deendayal UpadhyayUbale Utpadan Divas’ (DUUUD) passed off without attracting too much notice even from fully paid-up ‘bhakts’, trolls and bots …
The relationship between journalists and bureaucrats is, at best, a marriage of convenience. Both need each other when need be. No more, no less. Given their general air of superiority, …
For the first day in 46 years, today’s issue of Andolana, the Kannada broadsheet daily newspaper from Mysore, appears without the name of its founder and editor Rajashekar Koti, who …
‘Beggar’ is not quite the right word to use for a woman who has lived down your street all your life; who has seen you grow up; who has spent …
Barring honourable exceptions like The Telegraph, Calcutta, mainstream English media has happily abdicated its principal duty in a democracy: to stand up and speak truth to power; to reveal the …
The 83rd Kannada sahitya sammelana will be held in Mysore from November 24 to 26, and the most important literatary document for the gabfest has been unveiled: the menu. Strangely, for …
Although it has been turned into a fitness fad at the hands (and legs) of cads, Yoga is about the body and the mind. It has a mental, spiritual, philosophical …
On a personal journey across white America, writer Gary Younge came face to face with alt-right leader Richard Spencer @Channel4 Thurs 10pm pic.twitter.com/25f0gHWmjO — Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 7, …
After the last word is written, spoken and tweeted on #DemonetisationDisaster, one question will still remain unanswered, a year on—and possibly for all time to come. How did a Gujarati—yes, …
After having to share airtime with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for much of his tenure, the former prime minister Manmohan Singh had the stage all to himself today, on …
Compiling an “All-Time XI” list is every schoolboy’s post-lunch fantasy, and Lord’s Cricket Ground—the maternity ward of an Indian game mistakenly mid-wifed by the English—has been compiling them as if …
The Telegraph, Calcutta, is one of the few newspapers in the country with a fully functional science correspondent, ferreting out readable stories from an otherwise arcane world. In today’s paper, …
Bangalore’s English newspapers carry the usual dumb-ass features to mark Karnataka Rajyotsava, the state’s formation day. Deepa Ganesh breaks the monotony in today’s Hindu with a well-deserved salute to Nagesh …