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CHURUMURI POLL: Has India lost moral compass?
In its 62nd year as a Republic, India presents a picture that can only mildy be termed unedifying. Scams are raining down on a parched landscape with frightening ferocity. From …
Bird brain? Finally a Kingfisher in good company
It speaks for the power of branding that Kingfisher is identified more for barley water and the mineral water after which a barely-afloat airline is named. But there is such …
POLL: Should Kingfisher Airlines be shut?
To no one’s surprise, Kingfisher Airlines has floated into yet another stormy spell of turbulence. For the second time in four months, flights are being cancelled without “guests” being told …
When the boys are imported, why not girls too?
When the “good doctor from the University of Southern California University” outsourced a cheer leading squad from the Washington Redskins for the first edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), …
CHURUMURI POLL: Mallya’s RCB, desi or IMFL?
When it took off, the Indian Premier League (IPL) was supposed to be, among other things, about building strong city-based local identities. In other words, what the Chicago Bulls and …
‘Your attention please: Flight IT 2404 is at MYQ’
When Rajiv Gandhi‘s “feeder airline” Vayudoot took flight in the mid-1980s, the onus of inaugurating its services to (and from) Mysore fell on the fragile shoulders of its most famous …
Sons of the son of the soil meet the son of the oil
For all the sanctimonious claptrap, there is little doubt that the house of elders has morphed into a money-making machine for political parties as all manner of industrialists, corporate chiefs …
