As elections to the legislative assembly in #Karnataka veer into view, it is common to find anchors and analysts belt out words like ‘AHINDA’ to explain what is happening. ‘AHINDA’ …
Shashi Tharoor‘s felicity with the English language is, frankly, തുരക്കല്. So, Akash Banerjee, the AB of the six-inch screen, flips the switch and asks the Thiruvananthapuram MP, who dreams in highly accented English, the …
A “good death” would sound like a proper oxymoron, much like “good taliban” or “good terrorist”, if only it didn’t offer a commentary on its inherent fatalism. But it is …
As the 2017 calendar ran out of dates and 2018 rolled in—as urban India prepared to “party into the new year”—a small village called Santheshivara in Hassan district of Karnataka …
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 …
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 …
At 90, Nayantara Sahgal remains a shining light on India’s intellectual firmament: clear, cogent, strong, resolute and fiercely independent. In 2014, Sahgal—Vijayalakshmi Pandit‘s daughter and Jawaharlal Nehru‘s niece—returned the Sahitya Akademi award …
