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Why not too many Indians bag the Nobel Prize
Every October, India goes through the by-now familiar drill of asking why there are not too many Indian-sounding names on the list of Nobel Prize winners. And on the odd …
Kambar and Karnad, Bhyrappa and Puttappa & Co
There are mole hills and snake pits and then there are “literary circles”. For all their bonhomie and camaraderie, for all their high ideals and even higher aspirations from humankind, …
Chandrasekhar Kambar on our sense of history
The Kannada poet, playwright and novelist Dr Chandrasekhar Kambar has bagged the nation’s most coveted literary honour, the Jnanpith Award, for 2009, becoming the eighth Kannadiga, the most for any …
Desi colossus on a par with Yeats & Shakespeare
“Rasave Janana, Virasa Marana Samarasave Jeevana” MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: These evocative lines (meaning: rasa is birth, virasa is death, and harmony is life) in a world torn …
‘Bastard, bloody bastard, bastard, bhosidi maga’
“Indian politics touches a new low,” is one of the enduring cliches of political reports. But a new, bottomless low was plumbed on Sunday, 10 January 2010, when a former …
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