‘Don’t blame us. We’re just the beedi lighters’
The resident poets of the BJP in Karnataka are slipping into their creative best as the party mounts a shrill campaign to alert voters of the “worst betrayal ever” by …
The resident poets of the BJP in Karnataka are slipping into their creative best as the party mounts a shrill campaign to alert voters of the “worst betrayal ever” by …
If there has been anything more intellectually inadequate than the recent politics in Karnataka, then it has been the media coverage of it. Especially in the mainstream English media. Rarely …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: There have been some strange sights on the political landscape of Karnataka over the last couple of months, but nothing is stranger than the …
Editorial in The Telegraph on the nataka in Karnataka: “Not much can be expected of politicians who are least interested in governance, in the interests of the people or even …
With the BJP and JDS on the threshold of power once again, a predictable metaphor being used by the media is of “re-marriage”—and a second honeymoon. ‘Maru maduveya kshana ganane,’ …
RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: After all the motivated bilge of the pseudo-secularists at churumuri, and the motivated bilge of the pseudo-nationalists, a logical question to ask, as the first …
Varghese K. George in the Indian Express: “Karnataka could follow the pattern of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat—three major states that are now under BJP rule. “In all these states, …
U.R. Anantha Murthy in a letter to the Governor, on behalf of his writer-friends Girish Karnad, Devanur Mahadeva, and G.S. Maralusiddappa, quoted in Deccan Herald: “We do not want the …
Editorial in Deccan Herald: “A government is a result of a contract made by political parties with the people. Coalitions are made on the basis of principles and public interest …