Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s tongue-twisting call for an “Atmanirbhar Bharat” has evoked the usual gloating among the devout who still can’t get over Niti Aayog’s nursery-school alliteration, “vocal for local”. …
In the Kannada daily Praja Vani today, the acclaimed Kannada movie director S.V. Rajendra Singh Babu uses biryani as a metaphor to articulate the travails facing the Kannada movie industry …
As a pictorial representation of the perverse inhumanity that the “land of Buddha and Gandhi” has embraced as its key performance indicator since 2014, it is difficult to beat the …
Karnataka is the outlier in peninsular India—the only state in the South that the BJP has managed to come to power, by hook and by crook. Twice. There is a …
No sensible Kannadiga with an ounce of decency left in her will want to make sense of the ongoing political disgrace in the State. There are better things to do …
As a Kannadiga who has been an English journalist all his life, it is deeply depressing and distressing to watch the current plight of Kannada journalism, both print and electronic. …
*** The BJP candidate for the Bangalore South constituency in the 2019 general elections Tejasvi Surya hit national headlines on March 29 when he secured an ex-parte temporary injunction against …
Narendra Modi says Rahul Gandhi is running away from Hindus to contest from Wayanad. Amit Shah says all infiltrators except Buddha, Hindus and Sikhs will be removed. Yogi Adityanath talks …
It is a truism that an Indian politician begins his election campaign with a lie—a massive, mind-blowing lie that massages the middle-class where it matters most. It comes in the …
Controversial Kannada writer K.S. Bhagwan has kicked up a fresh row with his claim in a recently released book that Lord Rama drank “alcohol” and ate “meat”. Bhagwan, 74, a …
The demise of the editorial page as the voice and conscience of a newspaper is much lamented by the thinking class. But we in the journalism business have ourselves to …
Today’s front pages of newspapers is, as always, a showcase of the sublime to the mundane. For newspapers like The Telegraph, Atal Bihari Vajpayee‘s death is a good occasion to …
The BJP’s constant raga since May 15 has been that the #KarnatakaVerdict is a decisive mandate against the Congress. Its motormouth president Amit Shah says so, its various functionaries in …
Love it or loathe it, the Vidhana Soudha is Bangalore’s signature building. The five-storeyed, 500,000 square feet structure was built in four years flat. And, although Karnataka first chief minister …
50 years ago, today, the BJP’s current fixation, Jan Sangh president Deenadayal Upadhyay met his end in far from ideal circumstances. Above are excerpts from news reports in The Hindu and …
As the 2017 calendar ran out of dates and 2018 rolled in—as urban India prepared to “party into the new year”—a small village called Santheshivara in Hassan district of Karnataka …
Bangalore’s English newspapers carry the usual dumb-ass features to mark Karnataka Rajyotsava, the state’s formation day. Deepa Ganesh breaks the monotony in today’s Hindu with a well-deserved salute to Nagesh …
As manufacturing consent becomes the sole objective of mainstream media, it is left to artists and artistes to become the Republic’s conscience-keepers. On Monday, it was the actor Prakash Raj …
Helicopter rides have been introduced in Mysore in the run-up to Dasara festivities this year, and newspaper photographers are having a ball capturing the city from up above.
Former major domos of the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, also known as #MurthyAngadi, continue to provide an interesting snapshot of “New India”. One of them, a self-confessed Sunday-morning toilet cleaner at …
Regional politicians somewhat fluent in the English language, who know how to throw a good party, send a nice Diwali gift and make the odd phone call, have generally enjoyed greater …
Nearly 40 years after the Mahabharata inspired him to pen Parva, the acclaimed Kannada writer, academic and ideologue S.L. Bhyrappa‘s latest work, Uttarakanda, based on the Ramayana, will be released tomorrow, January 16. ⇒Aravind Adiga …
Journalists see plenty of disease, despair and death in the line of duty. Even if we do not entertain prospects of immortality, our near-constant exposure to the dark and grim …
Vijaya Karnataka, the Kannada daily from The Times of India group, has a new editor: Sugata Srinivasaraju, the former associate editor, south, of Outlook* magazine. He takes over from Vasant …
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