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Is Infy becoming Narayana Murthy’s property? 26 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
Take Our Poll For over a decade starting in the mid-1990s into the early 2000s, Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy enjoyed a well-earned, larger-than-life, holier-than-thou persona through his v...
Bulls, bears and the Animal Farm that is India 25 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
M.J. Akbar in Khaleej Times: “Who says no one listens to Dr Manmohan Singh? The bears do. Ever since the Prime Minister of India ordered Indians to release their animal instincts, the bears have star...
Don’t you know, don’t you know, she’s very very 24 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
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 all that and ...
What lies beneath the soil millions have walked 22 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
The Vidhana Soudha, buitt during chief minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah‘s time, may be Bangalore’s most famous building, but in the mind’s eye of the common Kannadiga, it is an area named after a movie h...
Raksha bandhan in the Hindu saffron brotherhood 21 Aug 2013 | 07:19 pm
The conventional wisdom on raksha bandhan is that tying a rakhi symbolises a “sister’s love and prayers for her brother’s well-being and the brother’s lifelong vow to protect her.” But in the Rashtriy...
CHURUMURI POLL: Do journalists need a licence? 20 Aug 2013 | 02:58 pm
Take Our Poll As if the “idiots” in the media didn’t have enough problems to deal with—paid news, corruption, wage board, 12-minute-per-hour ad caps, cross-media controls, job losses, recession etc—t...
Pink, orange, red and black in the land of gold 19 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
Ammerahalli Lake near Kolar poses for the cameras on world photography day, August 19. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Filed under: Kannada & Karnataka, Life Etcetera Tagged: Ammerahalli Lake, Chur...
Can an all-time Karnataka XI beat Dhoni’s men? 17 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
Mahendra Singh Dhoni carries Anil Kumble on his shoulders after the latter had played his last Test match, at the Ferozshah Kotla in New Delhi, in November 2008 (courtesy Sportstar) As the Karnataka ...
How our first three Bharat Ratnas proved right 17 Aug 2013 | 11:40 am
In The Telegraph, Calcutta, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the grandson of the Mahatma, writes on what the nation’s first three Bharat Ratnas—C. Rajagopalachari, Dr S. Radhakrishnan and Sir C.V. Raman—prescient...
Modi vs Rahul? Nah, more like Sanjay vs Rajiv. 27 Jul 2013 | 09:04 pm
VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes: Recently, I was caught in the rain and I took shelter in a teashop. Wet, and sipping on tea, I couldn’t help but notice the chatter of two older gentlemen who were sipping, pu...
