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…
State BJP heading for Harakiri in 2018 ?
April 21, 2017The 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…
The Public and The Police
April 18, 2017Importance 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…
POINT BLANK: Fall of BJP – Will it Rise in 2018?
April 14, 2017Congress-JD(S) alliance in the horizon The whole world loves the winner, declared Indira Gandhi after winning a landslide victory in 1971 Lok Sabha elections, held a year before the normal 5-year term. She got 362 seats out of 520, a two-third majority. A similar feat was delivered by BJP under Narendra Modi in the 2014…
POINT BLANK: Vandalism of Elephant Fountain continues
April 12, 2017A few months back, in October 2016, District in-Charge Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa inaugurated one of the iconic fountains at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Circle, popularly known as ‘Highway Circle’, with great fanfare. The fountain, embellished with a beautiful centrepiece of sculpture, with four elephant heads looking in four different directions with their trunks…
Mission Hospital: Mission Continues…
February 20, 2017Last Saturday at the Open Air Theatre in Manasagangothri was a unique musical event brought to city by Dr. Sunil Paulraj, a medical doctor of Indian origin from the United Kingdom. He had started to perform as a two-member team in 2005 which has now grown into an 80-member troupe under the name Toccata Musical…
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