A book on Modi as a Leader tells it all A leader must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.” — APJ Abdul Kalam, Scientist and former President of India. The two-day Mysuru Literature Festival-2024 excellently…
Musings on writers of Indian History
July 5, 2024Right-wing historians have arrived! I have noticed an increase in the number of writers of History of India — Social history, economic history, religious history and political history — after 2014 when Modi Government came to power. There was a perception that the old history of India written by the Islamic, Mughal and Colonial historians…
First Avatar of Rahul as LoP
July 2, 2024As Rahul takes up his first Constitutional post, I am sure that he will be feeling the weight of the realisation that he will be judged no more for whose son he is, but for whether he can be the Opposition Leader India deserves. —Philip Mathew, Editor, The Week Attention Hindus of India. Rahul Gandhi,…
A medical doctor remembers his life’s journey
June 30, 2024Mysore Literary Association (MLA) invited Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, city’s medical practitioner and also a regular columnist of Star of Mysore, to deliver a talk on ‘Beginning my life in a White Coat’ at Kalpa Kshetra auditorium in Vijayanagar 4th Stage on June 23, 2024. Curiously it was a sequel to good doctor’s earlier talk…
Game of Throne in Karnataka
June 28, 2024I came and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift; nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, not yet favour to men of skill but time and chance happens to them all. — Old Testament The latest buzz…
Ritz Ponnu’s Last Supper
June 23, 2024On Friday around 11 am I got a call. The message was disturbing, unpleasant, “Ponnu uncle passed away.” It was about the death of Ponnu Muthanna, known simply as Ponnu to his friends, the man behind the Pelican Pub, popular eatery and beer pub, on Hunsur Road in Jayalakshmipuram. He was 86. The news twanged…
A crisis of voter’s conscience or of India’s Constitution?
June 16, 2024The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways… — Lord Tennyson Lest one good Constitution should corrupt India! — With apologies to Lord Tennyson There was a scholarly talk at city’s Mysore Open Forum (MOF) which is like Arcadia in Athens during the time of Socrates. Here periodically…
Third Avatar of Modi
June 13, 2024A Prime Minister who made a weak India strong and a humbled India proud after 76 years of Independence Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. —Charles de Gaulle Looking back at the Lok Sabha election of 2024 and its result,…
Yes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi The game is over. BJP won the game but…
June 5, 2024Bharat Mata Ki Jai. We the people of India, that is Bharat, have spoken. No single political party has got 272 seats, that magical number, out of 543 seats when the result was announced yesterday, 4th June 2024. In a country with multiple political parties, only two parties have pan-India presence — Congress and BJP….
Modi Mantrava Japiso Manuja! | Exit Poll-2024: Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and the Astrologer
June 3, 2024This is my take on the Parliamentary Election 2024 exit poll survey now being beamed in all TV channels. This has made the Opposition sulk. Personally speaking, my faith in this exit poll survey is same as my faith in astrology. It is not ipso facto always correct. But sometimes… Honestly, in the matter of…
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