The prince, the white crow & the philanthropist
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: A little more than a couple of months ago, on 18th of May, to be precise, I attended a fairly well-attended story-telling session by Sudha Murthy, …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: A little more than a couple of months ago, on 18th of May, to be precise, I attended a fairly well-attended story-telling session by Sudha Murthy, …
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: The nomination of candidates for the assembly elections has followed a set pattern, suggesting that our political parties and politicians are like stuck records—they …
When he was dumped by the JDS for a second time last November, the BJP’s B.S. Yediyurappa provided an obscurantist spin to his physical wellbeing by claiming that he was …
Brokers at the Bombay Stock Exchange are clamouring for vaastu experts to be brought in to change the direction of the bronze bull statue that has been erected at the …
In life as in journalism, death is a grim business. And the passing of a publication, any publication, is not something to make fun of, or laugh about. Still, this …
The Wall Street Journal has a story on the Chilkur Balaji Temple in Hyderabad. The temple has been around for over 100 years, but it’s only in the last few …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Through my unusually reliable sources, I heard that Governor Rameshwar Thakur was planning to get the Vidhana and Vikasa Soudha remodelled before the formation of the next …
K.B. Ganapathy in Star of Mysore: “Sometimes I wonder if H.D. Deve Gowda‘s success, despite an unstable weak political party, is due to the grace of Gods and Goddesses which …
Among the many charges that B.S. Yediyurappa parroted before every TV camera yesterday, nothing is more emblematic of the depths to which Karnataka politics has sunk than his allegation that …
Today is Monday, 12 November 2007. As B.S. Yediyurappa takes charge as the BJP’s first chief minister in the South, in a renewed alliance with the JDS, spare a thought …
G.T. NARAYANA RAO in a letter to the editor of Star of Mysore: It is pathetic to read the news item in SOM (October 10) about H.D. Kumaraswamy meeting astrologer …