CHURUMURI POLL: Will you ever trust IPL again?

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 5/17/2013 2:01:18 PM

'To the surprise of all but those who have just arrived from Mars, the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been marred by the spotfixing scam involving players from the Rajasthan Royals. Three of them, including the former Test bowler Shantakumaran Sreesanth, have been arrested, two more are to be questioned. It […]'

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Why do we wait so long to honour our legends?

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 5/17/2013 1:46:04 PM

'K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: We recently saw the veteran thespian Pran getting the Dada Saheb Phalke award for his contribution to Indian cinema over nearly five decades. As a child I used to think that he must be the meanest and vilest person on earth as I used to see him only as the traditional […]'

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Is the answer to India’s hungry stomachs, chikki?

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 5/14/2013 10:54:10 AM

'The food security bill is the next big social welfare item on the UPA meny as it hurtles towards elections. The idea is unexceptionable, to use India’s surplus and rotting foodgrains to feed India’s poor, hungry and malnourished. And the hope is that like NREGA, free food coupled with direct cash transfer will win a […]'

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The Editor who foresaw Siddaramaiah as CM

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 5/10/2013 1:15:14 PM

'K.B. Ganapathy, editor-in-chief of Star of Mysore, on the man who will be Karnataka’s next CM, in today’s paper: “Back in November 2010 I had gone to Siddaramaiah‘s Mysore house with Mysooru Mithra editor M. Govinde Gowda to invite him personally for my second son’s wedding. “As expected, the house was full of people spilling […]'

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CHURUMURI POLL: Who will be the next CM?

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 5/8/2013 12:55:07 PM

'Now that Congress has accomplished the easy part, it has to brace itself for the difficult part: choosing the next chief minister of the State. Will the newly elected Congress MLAs really have a say, as they should, in choosing the leader of the legislature party? If so who will they opt for? Or will [...]'

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5 talking points you won’t hear on TV tomorrow

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 5/7/2013 8:57:10 AM

'PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: Tomorrow, May 8, is results day for the Karnataka assembly elections. Since I am not going to be in front of a camera, here are five talking points I bet you won’t hear on your favourite news channel, but five points I sincerely wish TV anchors and analysts would [...]'

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12 ways Karnataka politicians con EC, buy votes

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/28/2013 12:35:50 PM

'PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: No longer are elections spectacles. For the uninitiated, everyday life in Karnataka appears to be no different except for two things. First, Bangalore’s notorious traffic is manageable these days, as the political types have been camping in their constituencies. Second, police chowkis along the highways, especially closer to towns [...]'

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When Dr Radhakrishnan added to Bhagwad Gita

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/26/2013 9:01:11 AM

'Ahalya Chari, the head of the Regional College of Education from 1967-70, passed away in Madras recently, at the age of 92. Here, Krishna Vattam, the longtime Mysore correspondent of Deccan Herald, pays tribute and recounts an incident involving “Miss Chari” and another former resident of Mysore, the late president of India, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. [...]'

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Why Modi will address only one rally in K’taka*

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/25/2013 2:37:17 PM

'Security personnel on election duty search a car at a check post on Hospet road in Bellary on Thursday, even as a new pre-poll survey suggests that the Congress, despite all its troubles, continues to maintain a healthy lead over the BJP in the assembly elections due in the “gateway to the south” next week. [...]'

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When a wife-beater campaigns for the Congress

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/24/2013 2:55:12 PM

'ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from San Francisco: A week is a long time in politics; it’s even longer in the film industry, where reputations are made and marred over a weekend. But in Boxoffice Bharat, the fortunes of politicians and filmstars happily and conveniently comingle and collide at the turnstile, come election time. And so it [...]'

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‘If there’re no trains for Muslims and Christians…’

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/24/2013 6:16:01 AM

'When the Union minister for minority affairs, K. Rehman Khan, announced last November a move to set up five central universities across the country where 50% of the seats would be reserved for the minorities, it quickly became an inter-communal debate, with various BJP functionaries in Karnataka joining the fray. Ahead of assembly elections in [...]'

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When Bedi bowled from Maharaja’s College end

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/22/2013 11:25:30 AM

'VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes from Mysore: Recently, I was invited to be part of a group that is trying to raise funds for Pratham Mysore, the highly respected NGO that has helped improve the state of education in our country. Pratham Mysore has popularised the Balawadi pre-school programme where they pick a few volunteers in a [...]'

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Rahul Gandhi fails five tests in Karnataka poll

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/19/2013 1:52:31 PM

'Whether it was his power-is-poison speech at the Congress chintan shivir in Jaipur earlier this year, where he was elevated to the post of vice-president, or at the CII meet in New Delhi two weeks ago, where he used the beehive analogy to describe India, Rahul Gandhi has shown a very sophomoric, spreadsheet understanding of [...]'

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They cry before polls, so that we can cry after

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/19/2013 11:55:13 AM

'Former Karnataka chief minister and president of the KJP, B.S. Yediyurappa, wipes his brow during election campaigning at Badami in Bagalkot district on Thursday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also view: The best B.S. Yediyurappa pics on planet earth Filed under: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka Tagged: BJP, Churumuri, Elections 2013, Karnataka Photo News, Karnatala [...]'

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‘Diminishing returns from aggressive Hindutva’

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/17/2013 8:24:48 AM

'Opinion polls are crawling out of the woodwork in Karnataka. While most previous surveys have predicted a BJP downfall, a new one by the little-known Prabodhan Research Group, published by The Pioneer, Delhi, suggests it is going to be a hung assembly in the State: Congress 95 , BJP 81, JD(S) 27, KJP and independents [...]'

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It’s unofficial: our democracy has a bribe future

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/16/2013 3:45:38 PM

'On the pages of Talk magazine, S.R. Ramakrishna and Satish Acharya look at the great Indian poll waltz in Karnataka where a 29-year-old sitting Congress MLA has happily declared assets of Rs 910 crore, up from Rs 768 crore four years ago, as it heads into dance of democracy called elections. Also read: Why is [...]'

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In Coorg, ‘jumping japak’ when there’s a goooal!

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/16/2013 1:35:56 PM

'E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: At a time when Hockey India (HI) and the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) are at each other’s throats and dragging Indian hockey down the drain by filing cases against each other, in an idyllic part of the world 225 hockey-mad families are participating in the biggest tournament of its kind. The idyll [...]'

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POLL: Is Advani more ‘acceptable’ than Modi?

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/16/2013 9:24:49 AM

'In politics, like in cricket, nothing is in the realm of the impossible. And it is not over till the last ball is bowled (and sometimes not even that, if it is a front-foot no-ball). So, what was projected to be a head-to-head faceoff between Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi for the 2014 elections is [...]'

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Why have Doctors stopped making house-visits?

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/12/2013 1:41:43 PM

'K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: Most of the books that recount the experiences of medical practitioners from a bygone era, which I re-read from time to time, invariably tell us about their very interesting house -visit experiences. A.J. Cronin’s autobiographical masterpiece Adventures in Two Worlds and his novel The Citadel are two very notable examples while [...]'

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Why is corruption not an issue in Karnataka poll?

Author : churumuri      Blog : churumuri      Date : 4/12/2013 10:35:27 AM

'As the election scene hots up in Karnataka, the commentariat is swinging into action. Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi writes in the Indian Express: “Over the past decade, Karnataka has acquired the dubious distinction of being among the most corrupt states, competing with the likes of Jharkhand. Yet, discomfort over the issue of corruption has been [...]'

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