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The flying bird always fascinates the young one
A little girl clambers up her mother’s shoulder to catch a glimpse of Karnataka chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, as he arrives at Mudalapur in Koppal district on Wednesday during …
The world was at his fingertips till he went down
Between the final procession and the actual immersion, an idol of the four-armed one undergoes a minor transformation, in Karwar on Tuesday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also read: At 8t …
A life, well lived, returns to be amongst his own
Near and dear ones, and doctors, give the scholar Pandit Puttaraj Gawai company at the Veereshwara Punyaashrama in Gadag on Tuesday. The 96-year-old Hindustani and Carnatic instrumentalist and vocalist—an embodiment …
Cream revolution comes to an end (for the day)
All the world may pine for rains in summer, but if there is one lot that just hates it, it is young boys dealing in willow and leather. In Malleshwaram …
From us to them: Rack off, you bloody bonzers
It takes a particular genius to feel offended by a piece of art instead of the reality it mirrors. Several students of Indian origin have been clobbered in Australia in …
CHURUMURI POLL: Indians love to sue?
ASHWINI A. writes: Strange is Dr Mohammed Haneef‘s demand for honorary Australian Citizenship, but stranger still is the statement of his publicity-savvy lawyer Peter Russo about Indians in general. Just …
BREAKING NEWS: Haneef’s chatroom conversation
Australia’s immigration minister Kevin Andrews has just released selected transcripts of Bangalore doctor Mohammed Haneef‘s conversation in an internet chatroom with his brother in Bangalore the afternoon before he was …
‘What Dr Mohammed Haneef should do next’
He is free, he is back, he is enjoying his new-born daughter’s warmth and innocence, he is planning an outing far from the madding crowd, and he is weighing his …
How our media has gone completely bonkers
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: All is not too well in the immense country of Australia. Or so it seems. A country that is known as much for venom spewing, bad mouthing …
CHURUMURI POLL: Should Australia apologise?
The return of Dr Mohammed Haneef after four weeks in custody following a botched “terror” probe has sparked a new controversy: should—or should not—Australia apologise for the bungle? Australian Prime …
Mate, what goes around comes around
P. Mahamud in today’s Deccan Herald captures the Australian Police delivery even the Sheikh of Tweak, Shane Warne, hasn’t bowled yet: the ball that goes to the batsman as a …
EIGHT LESSONS FROM THE CASE OF MD. HANEEF
The dramatic but not unexpected decision of the Australian police to drop all charges of terrorism against Mohammed Haneef is the best piece of news a Friday morning could have …
Why terror groups are wooing the middle class
The involvement of doctors in the failed attacks in London and Glasgow last month evoked shock worldwide. Eboo Patel writes on Slate that this was the whole idea. “In traditional, …
On top down under, close-in is a far out place
An interesting piece in today’s Melbourne Age, based on the transcript of Mohammed Haneef‘s interrogation by the Australian police, says it is illuminative of the “ill-lit gulf of misunderstanding that …
BREAKING NEWS: Dr Haneef to be deported?
The Age, Melbourne, is reporting in tomorrow’s editions that the Australian government is contemplating deporting Dr Mohammed Haneef “immediately” to contain the political damage from the inept handling of the …
Finally, light at the end of the deep, dark tunnel?
It ain’t over till it is really over, but after a week of torment, are things finally looking up for Mohammed Haneef? The Minister of State for External Affairs E. …
‘Is counter-terror the original act of terror?’
When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was spending “sleepless nights” thinking of what the families of the Bangalore terror suspects were going through, the BJP pounced on the words …
Arrested. Released. Branded. Humiliated. Afraid.
A prisoner, believed to be Dr Mohammed Haneef, is driven from the Brisbane watchhouse in a police vehicle on Wednesday. Photograph by Eddie Safarik Photo courtesy: Sydney Morning Herald
RECALL THE INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER
The Mohammed Haneef episode has slipped rapidly from a tragedy to a farce. Arrested in the wake of the failed attack on Glasgow Airport for the cardinal sin of lending …
What Australians are saying about Dr Haneef
The publication of the transcript of Dr Mohammed Haneef‘s interrogation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has led to readers of The Australian debating the pros and cons of the …
What Dr Mohammed Haneef told Australian Police
The Australian newspaper has published a leaked transcript of Bangalore doctor Mohammed Haneef‘s interview with the Australian police following his arrest in the wake of the failed attack on Glasgow …
‘It isn’t enough for Muslims to deny, deny, deny’
Each new act of Islamist terrorism—in India or elsewhere, successful or otherwise—ends up with each side languidly reading by rote their response from the same dog-eared notes; from the same …
‘Jihad will destroy us if we don’t act now’
Academics and intellectuals have been largely impervious to the jihad phenomenon, but American writer Robert Spencer has tackled the issue head-on with such tomes as The Truth About Muhammad: Founder …
CHURUMURI POLL: Has civil India failed Haneef?
Mohammed Haneef, the Bangalore doctor detained for “recklessly” lending a SIM card and buying a one-way ticket, is now out on bail. But only just. The next hearing is a …
Does death not count if it isn’t due to terrorism?
SUGGI RAJ writes from Bangalore: As Karnataka shows an almost pornographic interest in the Brothers Ahmed, and their Glasgow plot that went phut, here’s a bomb that should blow a …
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