At the release of the Congress manifesto, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah claims his government has fulfilled “99% of its 169 asssurances ” in the last five years. At an election …
Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu got all the play on Pongal, but in Karnataka an equally gruesome custom of hurling sheep from a hill top on to a moving palanquin created nearly …
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 …
It’s Friday, box-office day, and there’s not a dull moment on Kannada news TV channels at the 2.30 pm matinee show. The marital life of the Kannada film actor ‘Duniya‘ …
The July 28 incident in Mangalore, when a bunch of boys and girls, were abused, beaten up, molested, even stripped naked by goons and goondas, allegedly of the Hindu Jagrana …
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: A veritable dogfight has broken out in Bangalore between a 24×7 Kannada news channel owned by the MP, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, and the owner-editor of …
After the free-for-all in the Bangalore courts on Friday, in which lawyers took the law into their own hands, clobbering reporters, stoning OB vans, etc, all the 24×7 Kannada news …
A battle royale has broken out between the two leading Kannada news channels over who broke the porn video scandal, involving ministers in the BJP’s “gateway to the south”, Karnataka. …
On paper, the media market in Karnataka is not the largest of the four southern States. The conventional wisdom is that unlike Andhra Pradesh, we do not have as many …
PRASHANT KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: As a film goer seriously allergic to the hype that accompanies Bollywood tripe, I approached the latest Kannada release Paramathma with plenty of trepidation. For, …
The poet, writer, lyricist and biochemist Jayant Kaikini on growing up in Gokarna, studying in Dharwad, living in 18 different addresses while earning his daily bread in Bombay, returning to …
“Indian politics touches a new low,” is one of the enduring cliches of political reports. But a new, bottomless low was plumbed on Sunday, 10 January 2010, when a former …
churumuri records with deep regret the passing away of the veteran cricket writer Rajan Bala in Bangalore this morning. He was 63 years old, and is survived by his wife …
Astrologers, palmists, numerologists, soothsayers, gemmologists and assorted fortune-tellers are supposed to reassure us about the future. But television bosses, especially in Hindi, seem to have decided that they can only …
Screenshots of four English news channels (NDTV, CNN-IBN, Times Now, News X) and four Telugu news channels (Saakshi, TV9, TV5, Gemini News), around 2.40 pm on the day the Andhra …
A requiem for Indian business journalism, in the delightfully breathless style of Juan Antonio Giner, founder-director, Innovation International Media: ‘Satyam’, meaning truth. India’s fourth largest software services provider. The darling …
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: Ernest Hemingway said early to bed and early to rise and somebody else has all the fun. John Ciardi said early to bed and early …
VINUTHA MALLYA writes: After the ‘blasted’ weekend in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, electricity transformers, unmanned bicycles and parked cars are drawing suspicious looks… until the ‘Indian Mujahideen’ invents its next bomb. …
Writer and lyricist Jayant Kaikini in Deccan Herald: “I am angry at the way the electronic media is making use of the incident and hyping it with a view on TRPs. …
1) Padmapriya Bhat, the wife of Udupi BJP MLA Raghupati Bhat, went missing on June 10 (June 11 according to some other reports). Why did it take three days for …
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 …
Poet and short story teller; columnist and magazine editor; television anchor and film script writer. JAYANT KAIKINI has done this, that and the other in a long career in sentences …
The release of former Congress minister H. Vishwanath‘s autobiography Halli hakkiya haadu (The song of the village bird) was thwarted by supporters of S.M. Krishna in Mysore yesterday who took …
The indefatigable JDS supremo H.D. Deve Gowda has flagged off his election campaign. In an interview with Lakshman Hoogar of TV9 today, en route to Kolar, he said: “I shouldn’t …
B.K. Shivaram, the latest police officer to join a long line of police officers in Karnataka politics—Sangliana, P. Kodandaramaiah, L. Revanasiddaiah, D.T. Jaya Kumar, B.C. Patil, Abdul Azeem, among others—sat …
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