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Posted on 27 May 2018 by churumuri
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A spicy ‘khichdi’ whipped up by cooks from all over, versus a great, great, great grandma’s recipe


By SHASHIKIRAN MULLUR What happened around me these last days? The traffic came back. The posters and hoardings showing the faces of our pretty politicians came back. (The use of …

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Posted on 19 May 2018 by churumuri
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Done Deal: Narendra Modi’s 16 steps to usher in a corruption-free ‘Shresht Bharat’ (via Karnataka)


The #KarnatakaFloorTest today is only one part about B.S. Yeddyurappa. The larger message is about Narendra Modi, and the BJP’s claim of being a “party with a difference”. Different, that …

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Posted on 11 May 2018 by churumuri
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“People of Karnataka, vote decisively. Vote for peace and social harmony”: Prakash Raj


The actor Prakash Raj, who has emerged as a brave and courageous voice against communalism, intolerance, hatred and bigotry, on how Karnataka should vote in tomorrow’s elections.

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Posted on 9 May 2018 by churumuri
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Why ‘namma’ Puttamma, also a part-time pakoda-seller, will vote for the Congress once again


Exactly 10 years ago, today, on the eve of the 2008 assembly election in Karnataka, I wrote about Puttamma, one of our two divine helps at home. Puttamma was then 34 …

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Posted on 7 May 2018 by churumuri
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Narendra Modi wants Congress to learn ‘deshbhakti’ from a crossbred dog the Mughals brought to India. Bow-wow.


What is it about dogs that so excites politicians and other animals schooled in the “Gujarat Model” that lures them into the gutters of political discourse? *** In July 2013, …

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Posted on 2 May 2018 by churumuri
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‘JDS stands to gain from the centralisation of candidate selection in BJP’: Prof Narendar Pani


Prof Narendar Pani of the National Institute of Advanced Sciences (NIAS), Bangalore, on how candidate selection is going to play a big role in #KarnatakaElections2018.

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Posted on 28 April 2018 by churumuri
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BJP ‘bhakts’ should read what a BJP man’s newspaper is saying about what is happening in Karnataka BJP


There is saturation coverage of #KarnatakaElections2018 in newspapers, on news channels and websites, and much of it is ordinary and predictable. But if there is one publication worth tracking to …

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Posted on 28 April 2018 by churumuri
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Why Siddaramaiah is on the winning track in 2018, according to the only pollster who got Karnataka right in 2008 and 2013


By PREMCHAND PALETY Cfore conducted an extensive survey in March to understand the mood of voters in Karnataka.  The Indian National Congress has a clear lead over BJP and JD(S) …

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Posted on 23 April 2018 by churumuri
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How caste and currency notes have completely (and irretrievably) poisoned the pool in Karnataka politics


There once was a time when the people pooled in money—10 rupees and 20 rupees—to put up candidates they wanted to see represent them. Today, voters expect parties and candidates …

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Posted on 9 April 2018 by churumuri
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Everything you about ‘AHINDA’ from your TV anchor and newspaper expert is wrong


As elections to the legislative assembly in #Karnataka veer into view, it is common to find anchors and analysts belt out words like ‘AHINDA’ to explain what is happening. ‘AHINDA’ …

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Posted on 8 April 2018 by churumuri
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Will Siddaramaiah *really* be made Chief Minister of Karnataka if Congress wins again next month?


Uncharacteristically, the Congress party has put all its eggs in the Siddaramaiah basket in Karnataka. And, by most accounts, Congress is ahead of the BJP at this juncture, with 45 …

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Posted on 5 March 2018 by churumuri
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9 reasons why BJP will find it difficult to do a ‘Tripura’ in Karnataka


The most productive and successful manufacturing unit established under the rubric of  ‘Make in India’ must be the BJP’s election machinery. That much is obvious by now. It comprises the …

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Posted on 8 February 2018 by churumuri
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What the world’s most famous Karnataka watcher sees in the coming elections


Professor James Manor of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, has been tracking politics in Karnataka for 48 years—and counting. Renowned as the man who knows more about Karnataka …

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Posted on 31 May 2013 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Who should be IT minister?


What qualifications must an elected MLA possess to become a minister? Whose prerogative is it to nominate a minister?  Who decides what portfolio a minister must be allotted? Should ministers …

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Posted on 29 May 2013 by churumuri
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Everybody’s nervous and anxious on the first day


The multilingual actor Sumalatha (third from left, front row) sits in the visitors’ gallery at the Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore on Wednesday, as the first session of a new assembly …

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Posted on 22 May 2013 by churumuri
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Rama Rajya is gone. Siddarama Rajya is here.


The ascension of K. Siddaramaiah, the agnostic-socialist who visits not temples and mutts upon becoming the chief minister of Karnataka but writers and intellectuals, as seen through the words and …

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Posted on 28 April 2013 by churumuri
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12 ways Karnataka politicians con EC, buy votes


PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: No longer are elections spectacles. For the uninitiated, everyday life in Karnataka appears to be no different except for two things. First, Bangalore’s notorious …

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Posted on 25 April 2013 by churumuri
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Why Modi will address only one rally in K’taka*


Security personnel on election duty search a car at a check post on Hospet road in Bellary on Thursday, even as a new pre-poll survey suggests that the Congress, despite …

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Posted on 24 April 2013 by churumuri
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When a wife-beater campaigns for the Congress


ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from San Francisco: A week is a long time in politics; it’s even longer in the film industry, where reputations are made and marred over a weekend. …

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Posted on 19 April 2013 by churumuri
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Rahul Gandhi fails five tests in Karnataka poll


Whether it was his power-is-poison speech at the Congress chintan shivir in Jaipur earlier this year, where he was elevated to the post of vice-president, or at the CII meet …

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Posted on 17 April 2013 by churumuri
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‘Diminishing returns from aggressive Hindutva’


Opinion polls are crawling out of the woodwork in Karnataka. While most previous surveys have predicted a BJP downfall, a new one by the little-known Prabodhan Research Group, published by …

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Posted on 16 April 2013 by churumuri
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It’s unofficial: our democracy has a bribe future


On the pages of Talk magazine, S.R. Ramakrishna and Satish Acharya look at the great Indian poll waltz in Karnataka where a 29-year-old sitting Congress MLA has happily declared assets …

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Posted on 3 April 2013 by churumuri
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Will Narendra Modi lead Karnataka BJP campaign?


PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: “Narendra Modi vs Rahul Gandhi“: It makes for a sexy headline. And for an audience drawing shouting match on television. But as an analytical …

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Posted on 8 July 2008 by churumuri
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What role should swamijis, religious gurus play?


    NIKHIL MORO writes from Mount Pleasant, Michigan: The alleged use of “mine power” by the Bharatiya Janata Party to lure newly elected legislators from the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) …

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Posted on 7 July 2008 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Are MLAs deceiving voters?


The decision of four newly elected MLAs, two each of the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular), to resign from the Karnataka Lesiglative Assembly and join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party with …

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