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‘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 …
INSIDE STORY OF THE BJP-JDS NEGOTIATIONS
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 …
BJP’s political intelligence lies horribly exposed
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 …
‘Blame anybody, but don’t blame the voter’
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 …
Chiranjeevi or Chiranjeevi Soubhagyavati?!
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,’ …
‘The best thing that could happen to Democracy’
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 …
‘Arre oh samba, kitne party the?’ ‘Do, sarkar’
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, …
Democracy doesn’t flow from the tip of a pen
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 …
When “We, the People” are mere pawns
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 …