Farmers being taken for a ride by middlemen is an evergreen story in a country where every second MLA and MP claims to be an “agriculturist”, and where everybody loves …
The outstanding artist and caricaturist Bailangadi Prabhakar Rao, known popularly by his pen name “Rao Bail“, passed away in Bangalore on Wednesday at age 81, but if you pored through Bangalore’s …
*** Renaming roads, railway stations and cities is rajma ‘n’ chawal for revanchist revisionists with cotton wool stuffed between their ears. So, Aurangzeb Road is now Abdul Kalam Road. Mughalsarai …
Madras, as Chennai used to be known, used to be a syncretic newspaper cradle. It was the hometown of The Hindu. It was also the hometown of The Musalman. The …
When N. Lakshman Rau, IAS, the man who built the best parts of Bangalore, including all the 10 blocks of Jayanagar, retired as the City’s top administrator, he moved into …
*** Many years ago, a young colleague was waiting for an autorickshaw at a bus stop in Delhi, when a car pulled up and the driver appeared to ask for …
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 …
There are lots of fantastic things you can do on a Tuesday evening if you are not involved in the demanding duties of ‘desh bhakti’. You can have “plans” for …
Before he set sail to India and then onward to England, where he rose to become one of the greatest investigative reporters of the 20th century at The Sunday Times, the late, great Phillip Knightley worked at a weekend tabloid newspaper in his home-country, Australia. This, of course, was when there was still something called […]
English TV presenters hectoring and haranguing their “nation” of 4 million—eyes glowering with rage, showing the middle finger to decency, offering cheap, ‘chai’ shop wisdom—is a gladiatorial spectator sport. A …
When you are a journalist, it is ‘maha’ easy to come to the conclusion that a good life is not about getting rich or staying rich—it is about filling your …
RBI governor Urjit Patel hit the headlines yesterday when he scooted from the media to evade questioning by reporters on the sidelines of the forever “Vibrant Gujarat” summit. Although some …
The Hindu breaks through its self-imposed shackles with a sexy story from Siddapur in Coorg, where the Orange County resort is located:
News that a grandson of Bismillah Khan sold four of the Ustad‘s shehnais to two goldsmiths in Benares for Rs 17,000 will surprise nobody. For decades, the maestro’s large family …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: On the day I left Gulbarga for good, upon completion of my studies and internship, I rode to the railway station from my room on my …
Students of the Satya Sai institute of home science turn out in their colourful best at a youth festival organised by the women’s University in Dharwad on Thursday. Photograph: Karnataka …
In the Bharat that is India, it is only those who play by the book, who stick to the code, who do not stray from the straight and narrow, who …
AMBIKA SEN writes from Madras: My mother told me this true story. Our ancestral home in Mannapra was a grand old Kerala mansion. Ramankutty, my mother’s maternal uncle, lived in …
The inclusion of Ranganath Vinay Kumar in the Indian squad for the Twenty20 World Cup is much deserved, statistically speaking. But it is also nothing short of seismic, sociologically speaking. …
M.R. SURESH, on a train ride from Agartala to Dharamnagar in the northeast, discovers what a shortfall of civic consciousness and a surfeit of official callousness can do to a …
Bijapur, on a misty morning, through the golden arches of “the second largest pre-modern dome in the world”, the Gol Gumbaz, on Monday. Photograph: Saggere Ramaswamy/ Karnataka Photo News
SHRINIDHI HANDE writes from Madras: We are already used to Australian apples, Californian grapes and other more exotic fruits from foreign shores sporting a small, slick sticker, branding themselves against …
While media mavens feverishly debate whether journalists should abandon their professional duties and lend a hand in moments of crisis, a three-year-old Afghan girl born with a deadly skin disorder …
L.C. Jain on Baba Amte in Deccan Herald: “He once organised a scavengers’ (night soil collectors’) union, but when they struck for higher wages while he was still vice chairman …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I was once treated by a doctor who was a ‘Gold Medalist’, a fact which was emblazoned after her name on the signboard outside her door. She …
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