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Press Council chief bats for ‘Porngate’ journos
Close on the heels of his missives to the chief ministers of Bihar and Maharashtra, the chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI), Justice Markandey Katju, has shot off …
Cricket’s a team game. Here’s full and final proof
Two years ago, in Mysore, Karnataka’s Manish Pandey pulled off a blinder in the finals of the Ranji Trophy against Bombay. Two years on, Bevan Small does ditto in domestic Twenty20 …
How different is Rahul Gandhi from MNS and KRV?
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: There is more than one way of looking at Rahul Gandhi‘s remark that the poor of Uttar Pradesh were being forced to migrate to …
The finest catch ever by an Indian fieldsman?
Manish Pandey‘s 144 in the second innings of the finals of the Ranji Trophy against Bombay will soon be forgotten. But can anybody forget this stunner he pulled of Abhishek …
Did Manchalamma take revenge on Mantralaya?
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: It is three weeks since the pilgrim township of Mantralaya, the abode of Saint Raghvendraswamy Swamy on the Andhra-Karnataka border, suffered extensive devastation due …
A VIP finger so right that it is almost to the left
The BJP’s candidate from the Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency B.Y. Raghavendra provides visual evidence that he cast his ballot the right way on Thursday, while his father, the chief minister, …
What do they know of a pub who only plub know?
B.Y. Umadevi, a 37-year-old Bangalore-based entrepreneur who has never been to a “plub”, on chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa‘s announcement that he wants to curb “plub culture”: “If a woman is …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is ‘pub culture’ the problem?
Following the Sri Rama Sena outrage at a pub in Mangalore, chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa has announced that he will not allow the growth of “pub culture” in Karnataka. In …
If there’s poetic justice, it is here, it is here
Narendra Modi‘s Gujarat sent Qutubuddin Ansari to West Bengal. How ironic that Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee should return the favour with the Tata Nano. How ironic that BJP ruled Gujarat should quietly …
‘A government cannot use ‘us v/s them’ rhetoric’
Editorial in The Indian Express, New Delhi: “The B.S. Yediyurappa government in Karnataka is not doing itself any good by persisting in its state of denial…. The Karnataka government’s singular …
God save a University which can’t find itself a VC
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The high-power committee in search of a vice-chancellor for the University of Mysore was busy doing what it is supposed to be doing: searching for a suitable …
Hopefully, the number of capable MLAs is larger
“Chief Minister comes down heavily on bureaucrats” “District in-charge minister warns babus” “Minister takes officials to task” These are the kind of headlines that crowd the newspapers whenever a new …
Without expectations of reward or recognition
BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: Recently, my grandson, who lives in the United States and is himself very knowledgeable about animals, expressed a desire to meet “Snake” Shyam when in Mysore, for …
‘Elections delayed can be democracy denied’
In an editorial today, The Hindu calls for the invocation of Rule 24 of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, to prevent the delimitation notification (which redraws the constituencies) from …
An ungrateful ant wails before a mountain of aces
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: On 20 January 1961, in his inaugural address after taking over as the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy said: “Ask not what your country …
CHURUMURI POLL: Aren’t Biharis, Bhaiyas Indians?
South Western Railway was forced to cancel the physical fitness tests for Group D workers in Bangalore yesterday after activists of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike entered the SWR Institute grounds, …
Not too early and not too late is just about right
First, there was water. Then, there was light. And then came the lenseye. This picture by D.G. MALLIKARJUN of Sidlaghatta won the first prize at the seventh annual international Everyman …
By bureaucrats. Of bureaucrats. For bureaucrats.
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: With the imposition of President’s Rule in the States becoming more of a rule rather than an exception, the time has come to ponder …
Because: “Government Work is Dog’s Work”
With seven-night stands becoming the order of the day, with politicians squabbling amongst each other and marking their turf with canine zeal, strays in front of the Vidhana Soudha in …
‘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 …
Yedi, steady, go: All the gods must be crazy
Not even bending backwards on one foot helped B.S. Yediyurappa escape the machinations of the “Son Parivar”. After the JDS issued a whip directing its legislators to vote against the …
A drama in four Acts with a twist in the tale
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: In the great political theatre that is Karnataka, two joint productions have come and gone. And a third has been hastily put together. But …
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 …
One leg in the chair, two eyes on the chair
A familiar crib of the Modern Indian Neta is that the media reduces them to caricatures in the eyes of the people. But who’s to blame for this? After …
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