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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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ammerahalli Lake near Kolar poses for the cameras on world photography day, August 19. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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. …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …