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Can NaMo solve Bangalore’s garbage problem?
To the eternal mortification of the naysayers, Narendra Damodardas Modi has won an admirable election for the BJP and is now firmly installed as the 15th prime minister of India. …
Meanwhile, in parts still not hit by the Modi Wave
Election time is one of most exhilarating periods in the life of the less-than-aam aadmi, when politicians (and the media) suddenly descend on earth, files move, officials respond, there is …
It requires lots of two legs to launch three legs
Nothing, it seems, can be sold to consumers or projected to the media these days, without a bunch of girls posing for the lenses. The 23rd piece of evidence in …
Bhavana, Bhavya, Radhika, Ragini, Shruthi, Tara…
The 2014 election campaign saw Karnataka taking some giant steps towards emulating the cinema-obsessed politics of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, with film actors (and actresses) of varying waist (and …
When a general election is an ‘agni pareeksha’
The Congress candidate for the Davanagere Lok Sabha constituency, S.S. Mallikarjuna, walks over somewhat smouldering, somewhat dying coal embers during a pit stop as part of campaigning in the central …
‘Minority’ appeasement of sarees in poll season?*
With the Jain community having been granted minority status by a Congress-led government that is nearly bankrupt of new ideas, the Kannada and Tamil film actor Sanjana Jain endorses a …
Thank god, you don’t need Aadhaar for bus ticket
Infosys co-founder, outgoing Unique Identity Authority chairman, and prospective Congress candidate from Bangalore South, Nandan Nilekani, takes a bus ride as part of the pre-poll schmoozing exercise, in Bangalore on …
