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It never hurts to be blessed by those who vote
There are few things more farcical in our democracy than the “Janata Darshan” that is a rage among chief ministers and assorted bigwigs inclined to show off the accessibility, where …
What could you want when you’re an MP at 31?
India’s youngest woman MP, the Kannada actress Ramya aka Divya Spandana, offers prayers at Ajmer dargah, the shrine of India’s most famous Sufi saint, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, on Thursday. Photograph: …
Don’t you know, don’t you know, she’s very very
There are many labels the Kannada and Tamil actress Divya Spandana also known as Ramya has attracted in her chequered career: moody, hothead, temperamental, drama queen, etc. She may be …
What lies beneath the soil millions have walked
The Vidhana Soudha, buitt during chief minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah‘s time, may be Bangalore’s most famous building, but in the mind’s eye of the common Kannadiga, it is an area named …
Raksha bandhan in the Hindu saffron brotherhood
The conventional wisdom on raksha bandhan is that tying a rakhi symbolises a “sister’s love and prayers for her brother’s well-being and the brother’s lifelong vow to protect her.” But …
Pink, orange, red and black in the land of gold
Ammerahalli Lake near Kolar poses for the cameras on world photography day, August 19. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
A sea of milk flows from one state to another
India’s fifth tallest waterfall, the Dudhsagar, on the border of Goa and Karnataka in all its milky glory, on Tuesday, as the Mandovi receives copious rains. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
Is ex-PM Deve Gowda guilty of ‘spot-fixing’?
S. Sreesanth has only just gotten out of the clutches of Delhi’s hyper-efficient police for using a hand-towel tucked into his pyjama as a sign to his bookmaker friends that …
Caught on film: The Dalai Lama’s hair-raising tale
The Dalai Lama is nothing if not funny. On a visit to the ISKCON temple in Bangalore on Friday, the (totally tonsured) Tibetan spiritual leader plays around with the tuft …
How to keep your head up with half a kilo of gold
The commodification of women to sell everything from anything to nothing is bad enough, although Priyanka Trivedi (top) doesn’t seem to mind the least bit. But what to say of …
When you see plastic, just bend and pick up
The multi-lingual Kannada actress Bhavana joins a camp organised by the Cubbon park walkers’ association to create awareness on making Bangalore’s iconic garden plastic-free, on Monday. Hopefully, the big white bag …
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 …
But to hear him, you need 3D Surround Sound
The Carnatic saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath (second from left) is all ears (and eyes) as photographer Shruthi A.N. explains the intricacies of 3D photography at the launch of a website of …
The Editor who foresaw Siddaramaiah as CM
K.B. Ganapathy, editor-in-chief of Star of Mysore, on the man who will be Karnataka’s next CM, in today’s paper: “Back in November 2010 I had gone to Siddaramaiah‘s Mysore house …
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 …
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. …
They cry before polls, so that we can cry after
Former Karnataka chief minister and president of the KJP, B.S. Yediyurappa, wipes his brow during election campaigning at Badami in Bagalkot district on Thursday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also view: …
Why is corruption not an issue in Karnataka poll?
As the election scene hots up in Karnataka, the commentariat is swinging into action. Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi writes in the Indian Express: “Over the past decade, Karnataka has acquired …
Two kinds of people work in the dead of night
When the lights come on, two kinds of uniformed men get down to work: one for private profit, the other for public good. As the Royal Challengers Bangalore get into …
Pay attention. You’ll soon be zipping through it.
It gets dark and it sounds different when the Bangalore metro passes through a tunnel from the arts college towards the civil court. But before that happens, some worthy souls …
If there’s a traffic jam, it’s most likely cause is…
It’s probably a cruel thing to say, given that Ratan Tata has hung up his gigantic boots and is enjoying the fruits of recruitment. But, surely, it is no exaggeration …
What goes on behind the boards at Minsk Square
It is difficult not to get exasperated while negotiating the bottlenecks that the metro rail project in Bangalore creates every morning. But few, if any, have the time or the …
Yet another shameless plug for a true Indian great
Presumably after buying vegetables for the day, as he said he would following his retirement, former Indian cricket captain and India’s second-most prolific batsman Rahul Dravid (right) makes time to …
Everybody is a child to somebody or the other
At the inauguration of the 8th international children’s film festival, the veteran actor, B. Saroja Devi, proceeds to give Puneet Rajkumar a nice little hug, in Bangalore on Wednesday. Photograph: …
If only you could do this to the Vidhana Soudha…
Photographers at tourist spots like the Eiffel Tower or the Taj Mahal prod visitors to pinch their fingers in such a way as to make it seem as if you …