Some of India’s most inanimate public structures have seen massive sex-change operations in the post-colonial age: Lady Willingdon‘s park became Lodi Gardens in New Delhi; Queen Victoria terminus became Chattrapati …
For over a decade starting in the mid-1990s into the early 2000s, Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy enjoyed a well-earned, larger-than-life, holier-than-thou persona through his various public interventions. As politicians, …
In the simmering caste cauldron that is Karnataka, a nice dollop of masala has been added by the reported decision of the Union civil aviation ministry to name the Bangalore …
It takes all types to give the shaft to graft. At the Bangalore international airport on Friday, a small reception party of Indians and non-resident Indians, assembles to welcome Anna …
The joint house committee of the Karnataka legislature has slammed the holy cows of Bangalore and the multinational corporations that built the Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) at Devanahalli for “faulty” …
Real reasons we are using this picture: Because it is a Saturday. Because we like movies. Because we like good-looking women. Because her name is Ramya. Because, well, she is …
M.K. VIDYARANYA writes from Bangalore: The dog menace continues to, well, dog the new Bangalore International Airport. BIAL may claim that it has taken tough measures to prevent canines from …
The old HAL airport falls off the map near the Raj Bhavan in Bangalore as a new one opens shop on the other side of town. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
NANDITA J, in a letter to the editor of Deccan Herald: “While waiting at the bus stand, I recently experienced some of the resentment commonly voiced against the ‘greater mortals’—the …
RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: Despite what Infosys’ T.V. Mohandas Pai told us, the new Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) hasn’t seen IT business plunge “by 30 per cent”. Despite what …
With the number of air passengers from Bangalore to Madras apparently dropping by as much as 60 to 70 per cent, Narendar Pani calls the new Bangalore International Airport a classic …
The Manmohan Singh government has reportedly decided to name Lucknow’s airport after former prime minister Chaudhury Charan Singh (in return for his son Ajit Singh‘s Rashtriya Lok Dal’s support during …
An Indian visitor, any Indian visitor, who steps outside the subcontinent and goes east or west is immediately struck by the value that is placed on the human life. The …
Several weeks ago, churumuri contributor ASHWINI A. alerted us about the tale of two airports. The Cochin international airport (left) at Nedumbassery, she said, seemed to embody the essence of …
Change is the only constant in life. And, last night, as the first Air India flight landed at the gleaming new Bangalore International Airport at Devanahalli, beaming passengers were welcomed …
The Bangalore International Airport is due to open on Friday, 23 May 2008, and already the battlelines are being drawn—and redrawn. On the one hand, the captains of Bangalore industry …
The new Bangalore International Airport will open at the crack of 23 May 2008. That’s official. And the existing HAL airport will close at the end of 22 May 2008. …
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: I flew from Hyderabad to Bangalore the other day. It was like travelling through a time machine. From the future, into the past. Having finished …
While Bangalore ponders its “connectivity” with the new international airport at Devanahalli, SUDHEENDRA MURALIDHARA forwards a picture of the airport at Antananarivo in Madagascar, “probably the only airport in the …
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: The new Bangalore international airport has been receiving an obscene amount of attention from “visionaries” like Captain G.R. Gopinath, Ramesh Ramanathan and R.K. Misra, …
S.S. KARNADSHA writes from Bangalore: With 45 days to go before Bangalore’s new international airport (BIAL) takes off (imagine that!), a debate distilled in the drawing rooms has spilled on …
RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: As if to prove the old adage that the shortest route to a man’s heart is through his stomach, both the stories churumuri has put …
After having left no gully and geri on Mother Earth unconquered, Kannada chauvinism is now exploring the vastness of the skies above. Former Chamarajanagar MLA and Kannada chaluvaligar Vatal Nagaraj, …
ARUN PADAKI writes: Sometime back, the Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) announced a tie-up with famed dining outlets operating at many international airports the world over, and a few Indian …
A. MADHAVAN writes: I have read recent complaints about the Bangalore International Airport, but did not believe how bad it was until I went through it. Trundling in our laden …