Wayfinding is part of global travel culture but in India it poses a serious challenge. Even in the era of national job mobility and a post-COVID tourism wave, governments don’t make it easy for people to find public places and essential facilities even in the biggest cities. Indian politicians...
Just a day after he vehemently denied he ever did communal politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went back to his old refrain, alleging in a Maharashtra rally that the Congress during its previous rule had wanted to allocate 15 per cent of the government budget for minorities and vowed not to...
What if the brahmins of Mylapore and Triplicane suddenly start a party that goes around terrorizing Telugus, Malayalis and north Indian labourers of Chennai? And an iyer or iyengar, for that matter, who has been working in a newspaper puts together a group of rowdies that beats up communist...
Savukku Shankar, the social-media influencer, is in the limelight yet again. But behind bars now, on flimsy and even imaginary charges and attacked while in custody. His lawyers apprehend the draconian Goondas Act could be invoked against him. It is rather problematic for me to comment on the...
The second phase of the election for 14 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka are over and the state has recorded a robust 69. 17 per cent voting on an average with Shivamogga topping with 79 per cent voting in the state. The lowest in the second phase being in Kalburgi with just 60.12 per cent....
As far as Amethi and Rae Bareli are concerned, the BJP does have a point. Ideally speaking the entire clan should be booted out of UP. The condition of their so-called pocket boroughs is pathetic. Visited the region not long ago and found even motorable roads almost non-existent, not to...
As the second phase of general elections in 2024 looms closer, the political arena in Karnataka is ablaze with controversy following the emergence of hundreds of sleaze videos allegedly involving MP candidate Prajwal Revanna from the powerful political family of Hassan. The entire controversy,...
India Shining, the nation may be, but the BJP's election campaigns still take no prisoners. Anything goes is their style and substance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attacks on the opposition may seem stretched but they are deliberate. From saying Muslims, who have been shown to be among the...
Daruri Seshachary, who paired with his sibling Daruri Raghavachary to form Hyderbad Brothers, passed away on Feb 24, 2024. Below is a tribute to him. Seshachary formally learned mridangam from his uncle, Vidwan Sri K Sudarsanacharya and was staff mridangam...
I hope T M Krishna does get to give his Sangita Kalanidhi oration. These speeches have not been momentous, barring a few times. One can recall Balasaraswati’s 1973 speech that, in and of itself, seemed typical. But, just by recounting her formative years and her influences, she subtly drove...
