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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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, …
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.
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 …
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) …
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 …
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’ …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …