On April 20, 2017 Chief Minister Siddharamaiah was in Malavalli, Mandya District, to fulfil a public engagement. As his motorcade was whizzing past the town-roads on his way to Shanthi College Grounds to launch various development programmes, hundreds of BJP workers displayed black flags, demanding waiver of farm loans. They even tried to stop the…
The BJP Leader of the Opposition in the State Legislative Council and former Deputy Chief Minister K.S. Eshwarappa is again at his game of bashing State BJP President and former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. The State BJP does not seem to have learnt any lessons from its recent disgraceful defeat in the by-elections held for…
Importance of reading the written law and rules. But Police have greater responsibility. A couple of days back a friend of mine in his eighties came to my office with a bulky file requesting me to publish a report on a subject related to Police or to talk to the Commissioner of Police. A tall…
Siddharamaiah’s trouble-shooter Whenever I go to Bengaluru, which is only when it becomes inevitable and inescapable, I stay in my sister-in-law’s place. You have guessed the reason. Really? The reason is my wife loves to stay with her sister. Last week I was in Bengaluru to fulfil a family duty and stayed in HSR Layout…
It is said of the artists that their work should speak for them and not the artists. There seems to be some truth in it because that was what I found in a renowned artist from our city N.S. Harsha when he visited our office two months back to collect some news items relating to…
Media is the life-line of Democracy and Secularism. Don’t strangulate it To be true to my faith, I may not write in anger or malice. I may not write idly. I may not write merely to excite passion. The reader can have no idea of the restraint I have to exercise. – Mahatma Gandhi “You…
My experience tells me that every day is a renewal of life. Its experience is different from the previous day’s. Such an experience came my way on Wednesday 22nd March, 2017 when I met one Damadahalli Swamygowda Chandrashekaragowda (D.S. Chandrashekara) of Mandya district. He was 53-years-old. Lewis Carroll says in ‘Alice in Wonderland’, a picture…
Last Saturday I was away from Mysuru in Kodagu on some errand for a night. As I was pouring soda into a crystal glass in the company of an old friend in his old bungalow, I get a telephone call. It was from another old friend and colleague from my Bombay days. ‘Hey, your son…
With apologies to William Shakespeare, who said in great dramatic flourish and rhetoric in the play ‘Hamlet’ ‘Frailty, thy name is woman,’ I have to disagree with him, at least today being Women’s Day! It is one of the memorable expressions from that play and has over the years become proverbial. He thus describes all…
I am sick of reading the ongoing war of words on our social media triggered by a media post from a 20-year-old Delhi University student, daughter of Capt. Mandeep Singh, a Kargil war martyr, nay one killed in that war, Gurumehar Kaur. She says, that “Pakistan did not kill my Dad. War killed him.” According…
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