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- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Beatles
Newspaper obits on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi highlight the time spent by the Beatles at his Rishikesh ashram in the...
- Delhi Techie Blogs to Pay for LSE Study
Blogger Ankur Shankar has a mission - to blog his way to the London School of Economics (LSE). The 25-year-old...
- IIT Kharagpur Plans School for Entrepreneurship
IIT Kharagpur plans to open next year a school for entrepreneurship. It would target students with "financially secure backgrounds",...
- Citizens to Turn Bangalore Green
Tabloids are not just about scandals, glambiz and other trivia. Bangalore Mirror and a local private trust have clubbed up...
- Taslima Nasreen: Where Does She Go From Here?
Where does she go from here? I refer not merely to her ‘homeless’ status, but also her literary works in...
- 'Hotmail' Sabeer Bhatia on The Idea of 'Failure'
When Sabeer Bhatia, who made his first million early in life, talks about the idea of 'failure' he ought to...
- Bangalore House-Owners Oppose 'Sakrama'
Violators have rights, including the right to protest government action and to appeal against penalty for their violations. Several resident...
- Mega Land Grab in Bangalore, The Silicon City
It is absurd; it’s pure theatre; and it is unacceptable. My reference is to the records tampering allegation a...
- Get Real, Arshad Warsi; This Isn’t Reality TV
I thought you were cool, Mr Arshad Warsi; one of the more sensible guys in Bollywood. And, I reckoned you...
- Bangalore Media: When Hard News Is Difficult To Come By
The media in Bangalore appears on loose ends, in the absence of spoon-fed news stories generated by the coalition government....
- Political Nataka In Karnataka
As a Mysorean my first thought on learning of the fall of the Yeddyurappa government was for the people-friendly Mysore...
- Karnataka Chief Minister on Thanksgiving Rounds
I can’t figure out what our Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is up to. He has been doing the rounds...
- Bangalore's Traffic Problem - Traffic Curbs or Autonomy?
We can put a cap on the number of cars on road in Bangalore, but our city administration needs to...
- Those Who Do, Blog
A surprising number in my peer group (senior citizens) believe blogs are a waste of time. They subscribe to the...
- The Emergency (1975-77): Indian Media's Shameful Era
Nirmala Lakshman’s Anthology of Indian journalism describes the Emergency (1975-77) as the most shameful period in the history of...
- Reinventing Nilgiri's Media
A friend in Coonoor, Rev. Philip Mulley, mailed me a couple of recent issues of The Local that carried his...
- Mysore Dussehra: Thank God, it's over
Local administration must breathed a sigh of relief, rather than a sense of fulfillment at the end the 10-day Dussehra...
- Desicritic Mayank Soofi Makes Waves All Over
‘Who is this bloke?’. I wondered, on reading about his blog – Pakistan Paindabad – making waves. Mayank Austen Soofi....
- Dasara, Mysore, & Green Activism
I don’t know why Dasara lightings set me thinking of load-shedding, the anti-Chamalapura stir, global warming, and a cash-strapped city’s...
- Poll Campaign In Japan Without Drums and Morchas
For BBC viewers in Mysore, where we went through a city corporation election recently, the Japanese documentary – Campaign...
- Globalising Mysore Dasara
People don’t talk of Dasara without a mention of Mysore. But how many make it their destination when they plan...
- Gandhi Jayanti Musings: Bring Gandhi Down From the Pedestal
Tamil poet Vairamuthu at a televised Gandhi Jayanti Kaviarangam read out a poem that says the hand watch Gandhi had,...
- Whispers in New Delhi's Corridors of Power
Presumably, the most read media in New Delhi bureaucratic circles is not The Times of India or Hindustan Times, but...
- Restaurant Review: The Dosa, San Francisco
At Sunnyvale Saravanaa Bhavan, we had to wait for 30 minutes for a table of four, that too, after a...
- M Shamim - Tribute to a Delhi Friend and Film Critic
Retired journalist Atul Cowsish doesn’t visit the Delhi Press Club often; and whenever he does, he doesn’t stay beyond eight...
- Human Rights Lessons for Karnataka Police
We have it from the officer in charge of Karnataka police recruitment and training that constables and sub-inspectors study human...
- Roads in Delhi are Not for Driving
To zip on M-G Rd., you must dodge trees - News headlineI used to think roads were for...
- Blogs, Friendship, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
My friend Kini’s web silence gives me a guilty feeling. His last post – Journey’s End – was in...
- Bhagalpur Police Brutality on Live Television
The Headlines Today television channel showed disturbing visuals of a battered youth, hands tied and lying on floor being...
- Karnataka Legislators on a China Jaunt
Many Karnataka legislators are on a two-week China tour. Seventy-five more are leaving Bangalore Monday next, according to a media...
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