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Fine us, but punish them
Three weeks ago, a friend picked me up for lunch. He was late. The reason for the delay he said was the long line at the RTO and Emission Certification Centre. A…
14 Sept 2019 · 4 min read
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Merging for strength and diversion?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday announced the merger of 10 public sector Banks into four entities. The first merger, that of Punjab National Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank will…
31 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Rahul Bose’s bananas & the age of convenience
On July 22 at 2.30 pm our hearts swelled with pride as Chandrayaan-2 took to the skies, just two hours later another event got us even more excited — the cost of…
24 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Chhota Parivar Sukhi Parivar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his customary Independence Day speech on Aug. 15 and there were no surprise announcements. But what surprised many is that the PM’s sharpest critic, senior Congress leader…
17 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Finally, from Kashmir to Cape Comorin
Kashmir is no more the special one. But it remains so for the Congress Party and Pakistan. And why not? Kashmir has been used and misused for politics both within India and…
10 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
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Strength is Life, Weakness is Death
The death of V.G. Siddhartha, Founder of Cafe Coffee Day (CCD), shocked everyone but the way he died was what made it disturbing, sombre and sad. Now it has been assumed that…
3 Aug 2019 · 6 min read
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Yeddy won the BATTLE but... Siddu WON the war
B. S. Yediyurappa has been sworn-in a fourth time as CM but can he complete his term this time at least? To begin with, he has to win the Trust Vote on…
27 Jul 2019 · 4 min read
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Shadow Boxing
Oh! Just when we thought after the exciting Cricket World Cup final there is nothing to excite us, Karnataka Political League began. Our MLAs started playing political cricket. But what was to…
20 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
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Nataka in Karnataka
By Vikram Muthanna The political drama in our State with every passing election is becoming like a Bollywood Director Rohit Shetty’s comical-action with multiple star cast — there are heroes and villains,…
13 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
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Budget Thoughts
By Vikram Muthanna Like most Indians I too watch the Union budget. But usually by the end of the Finance Minister’s speech I feel like I have understood nothing and end up…
6 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
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An Adventure for Social Media
Earlier this month, 11 people died in the Himalayas. But what was even more shocking was the photograph of the ‘traffic jam’ at 27,000 feet above sea level! This height is called…
15 Jun 2019 · 5 min read
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Praying for rains… again & again
It is that time of the year again, when it is time to pray for rains again. Earlier this month our State Government ordered prominent temples under the Muzrai Department, which are…
8 Jun 2019 · 5 min read
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Up in Arms - Pit
Two days ago, while the Nation was waiting with bated breath to see what the new Government’s Cabinet would look like, many others were looking elsewhere. And what they saw made them…
1 Jun 2019 · 5 min read
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“It’s the Leadership, Stupid”: Taking a peek into Modi Magic
Narendra Damodardas Modi, India’s first Prime Minister to be born in Independent India, on May 23rd also became the first Prime Minister since 1971 to secure a single party majority twice in…
25 May 2019 · 8 min read
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Press Conference: Who needs it ?
Yesterday Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined BJP President Amit Shah at a press conference called by the latter. Many of us hoped the journalists would ask him questions and PM Modi would…
18 May 2019 · 4 min read
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Stop Officers from Politics?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, 8th May, claimed that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi used aircraft carrier INS Viraat like it was his personal taxi to go on a holiday to…
11 May 2019 · 5 min read
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Cyclone Musings
Cyclone Fani made landfall in Odisha yesterday. She has been the strongest cyclone storm in 20 years to hit the country. While it is unfortunate that eight people lost their lives we…
4 May 2019 · 4 min read
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Superhero Obsession
The movie, Avengers : Endgame was released yesterday and ticket bookings were “ferocious and enormous” as described by CEO of the Multiplex chain PVR Pictures Ltd. Some theatres even ran 24x7 to…
27 Apr 2019 · 5 min read
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Gag Tactics
On April 1st, I received a Court order. But I had not written an article in two weeks so I could not have offended anyone. Then I thought it might be an…
13 Apr 2019 · 4 min read
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Karnataka Water Works
Temperature may be rising and Cauvery may be drying up but on Wednesday, Holenarasipura taluk in Hassan district saw heavy rains. Why? Because the first family of JD(S) let their lachrymal glands…
16 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
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Women Entrepreneurship
March 8 was Women’s Day and as I was driving I noticed a cow grazing on plastic. I felt women and bovines are treated very similarly by a patriarchal society. These two…
9 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
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Air-strike Afterthoughts...
Financial Shield Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman is back on Indian soil and some say with his return a war has been averted. But we doubt if there would have been a war…
2 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
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Give NCC a try
On Valentine’s Day, it was not the red of roses that engulfed India, but the blood of our soldiers. Immediately after the Pulwama terror attack, social media was flooded with posts expressing…
23 Feb 2019 · 4 min read
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Pink Trap & Home Science
Two days ago, our world had turned pink. It was Valentine’s Day. It should have turned red but somehow many advertisements were in pink, implying it was targeted at women. All this…
16 Feb 2019 · 4 min read