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Pet Talk
By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka speaks more on cat’s behaviour Why do cats hate baths? Probably because wet fur is so annoying. A cat’s fur takes much longer…
31 Jan 2018 · 5 min read
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The origins of Republic
By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy Indians celebrated Republic Day, popularly known as Ganarajyotsava with all solemnity and patriotism that it deserved. Years ago, I was in Delhi for some official work with…
28 Jan 2018 · 5 min read
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Now is the time for voters to demand their ‘pound of flesh’
Come elections to Assembly or the Parliament, there is heat in the political camps. Otherwise, there is bonhomie among all political parties, though covertly, so that they can individually reap the benefit…
27 Jan 2018 · 5 min read
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Old Netas in Young India
Our former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, at his Party’s ‘Parivartana Yatra’ said that though he was 76- years-old, with the support of people and God he would complete the 84-day Yatra on…
27 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Tourism on the Rise. But not Mysuru. Why?
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC One crore or 10 million arrivals! We Indians should be proud. We have crossed this magical figure this year. Of course, this arrival figure includes…
25 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Pet Talk
By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka speaks about the intelligence of Dogs, Wolves, Cockatoos and Squirrels Cockatoos are pretty but do they have any special skills? Cockatoos have been…
24 Jan 2018 · 5 min read
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New Kerala Model? No Harm Hoping
By TJS George Something extraordinary happened in Kerala last week. It is a State that was taken over quite some time ago by time-servers in public life, corruption kings and one-man parties…
23 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Forget Helmets Let’s Leave it to Destiny
Our helmet woes never end. That’s because helmets are never on our head. Instead, it’s on our arm or tucked away in our vehicle’s luggage space. Ever since helmet checking began, two-wheeler…
20 Jan 2018 · 3 min read
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American Dreams - 5: “Black Friday,” the day America “shops”
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC [Continued from Jan. 11] The second festival which we had the privilege to watch during our brief stay in the US was ‘The Thanksgiving’ similar…
18 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Pet Talk
By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains about how smartness differs from one animal to other. People would rather eat sheep and goats than dogs because there is this…
17 Jan 2018 · 5 min read
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Divided people are easy targets
By T.J.S. George Way back in 1857, a foreign journalist described India in words that seem eerily relevant today. (That is going a really long way back because 1857 was the year…
16 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Stainless Steal
Some may not have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth, so they just steal a few silver spoons, literally, like a few Indian journalists did in London recently. West…
13 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Glorious Suttur Jathre
By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Mysore The Kannada word Jathre (Jathra) is derived from the Sanskrit word Yatra and it is generally…
13 Jan 2018 · 5 min read
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Supreme Court redeems Journalists’ Right to Freedom of Expression
In some cases, regret or correction or even apology, as demanded by the complainant, is published and yet the defamation case is filed. The Courts, despite being shown the regret or apology…
11 Jan 2018 · 6 min read
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American Dreams - 4: Halloween is not complete without pumpkins!
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC [Continued from Jan. 4] I was always under a wrong impression that we Indians believed in bhootha, pretha, superstitions, ghosts etc., but I was in…
11 Jan 2018 · 3 min read
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Pet Talk
By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains about animals and birds’ smartness Human beings think they are smarter than all animals because they can use tools. Can any animal…
10 Jan 2018 · 6 min read
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Indian Tax Savers’ Plea To Govt.
We pay tax so that the Government provides us with infrastructure needed for leading a comfortable and quality life. These infrastructures are, for example, uninterrupted quality power supply, water supply, good roads,…
9 Jan 2018 · 7 min read
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Princes in Politics? (Not Patiala)
By TJS George There's something about royalty that excites the popular mind. Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej reigned from 1946 to 2016 to become the world's longest reigning monarch; he was so popular that…
9 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Tradition of South Indian Coinage
By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Mysore South India, comprising Karnataka, Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, has a distinctive system of coinage from…
7 Jan 2018 · 5 min read
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Human Beasts and Helpless Animals
On Tuesday, selfie-obsession took another life. This time it was not suicidal. It was murder. On Monday an eight-month-old elephant calf with fever strayed near a village in Gundulpet with its mother.…
6 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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American Dreams - 3
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC [Continued from Dec. 28] I travelled about 2,500 miles by road across the US. No humps and unbelievable, only one pothole, and that too in…
4 Jan 2018 · 5 min read
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Dynastic Democracy ?
Welcome People’s Democracy Actors, sportspersons and athletes change their roles seamlessly, smoothly when their top-form, heydays, of glory begin to fade and they appear before us in a different avatar. One such…
3 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Pet Talk
By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains how intelligent, curious, adaptive and loyal are chickens. Are chickens birdbrained? I have kept them and I find them extremely intelligent, curious,…
3 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
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Into a mixed-up, convoluted 2018
By TJS George Machimanda Deviah caught the spirit of our times when he posted: The black buck who was driving Salman Khan's car had killed Arushi Talwar because she did 2G scam…
2 Jan 2018 · 4 min read