Across States and at the Centre, lawmaking has been reduced to brute arithmetic: If you have the numbers, you ram the Bill through. Debate is optional. Deliberation is dispensable. Karnataka’s Hate Speech Bill fits neatly into this disturbing pattern. The Bill was passed amid BJP protests demanding a detailed discussion. But this is not a…
When Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar stepped out after their second ‘unity breakfast meeting,’ the real headline wasn’t the unity. It was what gleamed on their wrists — Gold watches. NDTV identified the identical gold timepieces on the CM and Dy.CM’s wrist as Santos de Cartier, each estimated at over Rs….
As expected the inevitable tug-of-war between the Karnataka Chief Minister and his Deputy for the coveted CM’s kurchi has begun. What we are witnessing today is the direct consequence of indecision and chronic incompetence within the Congress High Command. Everyone knew this day would come. Yet the party was ill-prepared. No timeline. No strategy. No…
Just a week after we celebrated Children’s Day, we were confronted with a brutal truth: Our children are not safe in the schools meant to nurture them. In Delhi, a 16-year-old boy died by suicide after relentless harassment by his teachers. In Mumbai, a 13-year-old girl collapsed and died after her teacher forced her to…
Congress has been decimated in the Bihar elections. Rahul Gandhi rode into Bihar on an Enfield Bullet as part of the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra.’ He thundered through 23 districts for over 16 days accusing the BJP of ‘vote chori.’ And then…poof !… he disappeared. His party workers were left bewildered and abandoned. This is not…
November 1 marks Karnataka Rajyotsava,our State’s birthday and every year, our leaders deliver predictable speeches about ‘promoting Kannada.’ Every year, pro-Kannada activists demand that “outsiders must learn Kannada.” So, why is Kannada, in its own land, slowly losing its ground? Because we don’t teach functional Kannada. We teach grammatical and written Kannada first instead of…
Dasara is here and so Mysuru gets its annual Botox shots. Which means Mysuru has once again been given its annual facelift. Roads are hastily patched, heritage buildings get a dubious lump of paint and traffic medians get back their yellow and black colours. It’s the city’s seasonal ‘quick-fix mode’ and like all quick fixes,…
Come election season in India, especially State Assembly elections, one ugly truth inevitably rises to the surface: Caste politics. With the Bihar polls looming, the conversation has turned unexpectedly revealing. A long-held myth is being shattered, the myth that caste is a ‘Hindu problem’. For decades, Left-leaning intellectuals, secularists and vote-bank politicians have projected caste…
Dasara is here and the administration says it is ready to welcome Dasara tourists. But the truth is, our so-called ‘Royal City’ is in a ‘Royal Mess.’ Our footpaths have turned into ‘food-paths’ while our circles and medians have turned into ‘flex parks.’ The city administration has clearly lost control of its streets. Vendors occupy…
If you are among the unlucky thousands who commute daily through Bannimantap Main Road, you’ve probably realised by now that this stretch is less of a road and more of a seasonal circus. Depending on the month, you’re either dodging elephants, squeezing between goats or being dazzled by Homo sapiens behaving like Simians under decorative…
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