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If children play with note counting machines…
The residence and offices of Karnataka BJP leader K.S. Eshwarappa were raided by the Lok Ayukta recently, acting on a complaint of “assets disproporation to the known sources of income”. …
Five questions for L.K. Advani and Arun Jaitley
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Who exactly is ruling Karnataka right now? Exhibit A: The Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) guarantees employment in rural areas. Of the Rs 2,153 …
CHURUMURI POLL: Should S.M. Krishna resign?
As the nation’s external affairs minister, Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna knows that it is a small world he lords over—what goes around, comes around. So just months after he threatened to …
Because, well, the s**t has hit the ceiling fan
The BJP’s disgraceful tandav with democracy in Karnataka is coming full circle in Bellary. It was from the mineral-rich district that the party’s ascent towards power and the State’s descent towards …
Long arm of law catches up with a desh-bhakt
Nothing—not the permanent vermilion mark on his forehead; not the myriad visits to temples and mutts; not the prostration before swamijis and godmen; not the advice of astrologers and numerologists; …
A property broker with a Vidhana Soudha address
Former muzrai (religious endowment) minister S.N. Krishnaiah Shetty, who collapsed in the Lok Ayukta court on Saturday, after special court judge N.K. Sudhindra Rao directed his arrest, being carried to …
The real hero of Yedi’s downfall: Kumaraswamy?
One day he says he will “resign”; the next day his eyeballs glower in defiance. One day he is a “disciplined soldier of the party”; the next day he is …
