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If Ambani, Tendulkar, Shah Rukh aren’t safe…?
The overcooked chickens of divisive politics are coming home to roost on the streets of Bombay for the cooks, chefs and cleaners who were dishing it out for decades. As …
CHURUMURI POLL: Free to work anywhere?
Six days before the 60th anniversary of the Constitution of India, the Congress government in Maharashtra has behaved no better than thuggish political parties and outfits acting in the name …
We are all outsiders & insiders in India i.e. Bharat
In the RSS mouthpiece, Organiser, Jay Dubashi addresses the “outsider” bug that is biting several States and cities against the backdrop of the assault on Samajwadi Party MP Abu Azmi …
‘Hindi’s like Hinduism, not the only thing around’
R. Jagannathan, executive editor of DNA, hits the nail on the nationalistic head in the Raj Thackeray-Abu Azmi faceoff on Marathi versus Hindi: “Speaking about Hindi as a national language …
Tweet, tweet, who’s there? Ghulam Nubbyazz
With middle-class India—not rural India, or the poor sections of middle-class India—in the throes of a fine slew, GAUTAMA P. hacks into the Titter account of health minister Ghulam Nabi …
Brits divided & ruled. Our netas rule & divide.
SUJATA RAJPAL writes: I often marvel at those who have the knack of identifying the religion/ region of a person just by looking at their attire, name, surname, or even …
Ask not what they have given but what you have
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: It’s a time to give; it’s time to hand over gifts to the important and not so important, for their contributions in the year gone by. *** …
Once upon a time in Bangalore on Route No. 11
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Bangalore in the 1950s and ’60s was still a Pensioners’ Paradise and very much a sleepy town. It was mostly divided into “City” and “Cantonment” with Basavanagudi …
‘Our netas have raped every part of Mother India’
It is open season on the Indian politician. E.R. RAMACHANDRAN forwards a copy of an open letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh, purportedly from a resident of Nepean Sea Road, …
Is there nobody to speak for our ‘local’ worms?
In the gardens of Bangalore palace, an audacious “outsider” grabs the birthright of worms of the soil and makes merry. Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, Raj Thackeray gets ready to …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Jet right to sack employees?
Jet Airways has let go of hundreds of employees, a day after tying up with Kingfisher Airlines, in the first, visible manifestation of the global economic crisis hitting home. Union …
Please save the Marathi Manoos & Mannina Maga
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: The relentless march of humanity has resulted in the extinction of several species of flora and fauna from this world, and now threatens to swallow …
‘Media shapes, sexes up, manipulates, distorts’
Is the media playing with the tiger’s tail? Or is the tiger cub riding the media? In other words, just how much is the media responsible for the Raj Thackeray …
One question I’m dying to ask Raj Thackeray
First the uncle, then the nephew. India’s most cosmopolitan city, Bombay, is being destroyed bit by bit by cartoonists in the name of “reconstruction” of the Marathi ethos. If old …
Since all the problems have been solved, let us…
The following is the editorial that appeared in Loksatta (published by the Indian Express Group) on Wednesday, June 4, on the Maharashtra government’s decision to install a gigantic statue of …
Where you see Marathi, replace it with Kannada
Kumar Ketkar, editor of the Marathi newspaper Lok Satta, writes in the Indian Express on Raj Thackeray‘s specious claim that his only aim (in targetting Biharis, etc) is to protect …
‘Kannada, Karnataka are safe, robust, respected’
After nonchalantly watching, when not silently applauding, the audacious assault on the very soul of Kannada, Kannadiga and Karnataka, the mainstream media seems to be waking up to the pregnant …
Raj Thackeray st Bombay b Iqbal Abdulla 19
The under-19 Indian team which won the World Cup last Sunday had only one player from Bombay: Iqbal Abdulla. The left-arm spinner had a 10-wicket haul in Malaysia, and was …
Pampa to Champa: What a fall, my countrymen!
The outrage of Kannada organisations at a poem written by a Canadian employee of the IT company Sasken that reportedly abuses and makes fun of Kannadigas, has taken a familiar …
The strange, sad and scandalous silence of Big B
SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: Everything that’s happened over the past fortnight in this great metropolis built by those who have made it their home, from near and far, has …
One question I’m dying to ask… Lalu Prasad
They said the Railways would go bankrupt in 2015; he is now announcing a profit of Rs 25,000 crore by leaving passenger fares untouched year after year. They said he …
Should hate-mongrels be given space in media?
The media has been a key player in Raj Thackeray‘s hate campaign against “outsiders” in Bombay. In giving him the oxygen of publicity, in editorialising news, in fanning the flames …
‘Do political movements need to obey the law?’
Raj Thackeray, the Posterboy of Parochialism (West), has responded to an open letter in The Indian Express from Sudheendra Kulkarni, the Belgaum-born media advisor to Atal Behari Vajpayee and L.K. …
From far, even a fire looks like a nice little spark
BHAMY V. SHENOY writes: As Raj Thackeray follows his uncle Bal Thackeray‘s footsteps in trying to tap revanchist linguistic and regional sentiments, we need to take a look at …
Does Lalu have guts to call anybody else ‘dirty’?
K. Subrahmanya in Deccan Herald: “Under the Third Schedule of the Constitution, a part of the oath of office of secrecy a Union Cabinet rank minister takes while being sworn-in …