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VHP & Bajrang Dal aren’t part of Sangh Parivar?
In the non-stop disgrace that Karnataka politics has been under the BJP, the disgrace of September 2008 when the State was held hostage by Hindutva Hitmen is now history, buried …
The crotch, the nose, the hand and your phone
On the one hand, the mobile phone revolution in India has provided cheap and easy access to the great unwashed. On the other hand, it has also erased the difference …
And the milk man is pure, positive and virtuous?
As it is, there was little to be said about the suspected virtues of God’s Own Party with a Difference when an MLA’s wife (Raghupati Bhat) was “half-kidnapped” and the …
How the skyline darkened for a few on Tuesday
Smoke billowing out of Carlton Towers on the old airport road in Bangalore on Tuesday following a fire mishap. Firemen rescued many employees but the state’s home minister V.S. Acharya …
Single idli and single vade for the tongue parivar
At yet another meeting of the beleaguered BJP legislature party to discuss “progress” and “development”—at the very expensive Golden Palms hotel and spa run by Sanjay Khan, no less—chairman of …
How a chief minister should drink tea. (Or not?)
On the day his party was tasting defeat in three States, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa sips tea the old-fashioned (down market?) way in the company of the (more suave?) …
At least it’s better than picking your ear or nose?
Cellphone etiquette, as a prerequisite of civilised behaviour, is something that has completely skipped an entire generation of Indians. (And we aren’t alone.) We shout, we hiss, we send and check …
A video for the viewing pleasure of V.S. Acharya
YASHOVARDHANA KOTE, in Chicago, forwards a YouTube video of a police constable assigned with crowd control arguing with and abusing an officer on the sidelines of the Aero India show …
Is this all that pooje and archane could achieve?
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Will somebody please explain just what is happening to B.S. Yediyurappa and his BJP government? The CM mentions there won’t be power cuts and just after few …
CHURUMURI POLL: Girls drinking beer not Hindu?
Mangalore is fast emerging, if it has already not emerged, as the “Laboratory of Karnataka”. The epicentre of communally mobilised politics for long, the region has seen individual and institutional …
One question I’m dying to ask Dr V.S. Acharya
The sort of disrepute Shivaraj Patil has brought the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre in four years, V.S. Acharya has brought the BJP government in Karnataka in four months …
Is saving souls a good way of saving democracy?
NIKHIL MORO writes from Mount Pleasant, Michigan: The religious violence in Udupi and Chikmagalur, caused by the “rising anger over Christian conversions,” shows two things different this time round. First, …
‘The Bajrang Dal doesn’t belong in Mangalore’
The tourist guidebooks don’t quite put it that way, but Mangalore has always been a bit like the City’s trademark ice cream, the ‘gadbad‘. A potpourri of religions and languages—Hinduism …
6 ways to beat the ban, chillax & have some fun
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 …
For Indian journos, April 1 comes 9 months early
Infallible Indian journalists have been spooked by a delightful Da Vinci Code style hoax played on them. On Sunday, almost every newspaper reported the arrest of Johann Bach, an 88-year-old …
‘Home’ is where the chief minister’s heart is
A photograph may convey a thousand words, but a cartoon conveys a few thousand more. With Karnataka home minister V.S. Acharya caught on the wrong foot twice within a fortnight, …
20 unanswered questions in l’affaire Padmapriya
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 …
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