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  1. Does your dentist know Sanskrit?

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    / September 14, 2012 /
    How would it be if your dentist next asks you to open your mouth in Sanskrit? Foxed. Well,  it could well happen if Karnataka’s medical education minister S A Ramdas has his way. Ramdas wants dental students to learn Sanskrit to understand their subjects better. The Times of India reports...

  2. Governor Bhardwaj offers to pick up the broomstick

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    / August 27, 2012 /
    This attack on the government would make Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj a popular man for sure. Taking potshots at the Bangalore city corporation for not clearing up piled up garbage, Bhardway has offered to clear the waste himself. “Give me 20 men, I will clear it myself,” he said....

  3. India needs to look east

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    / August 17, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Another 8000 people from the North East bid a hurried goodbye to Bangalore on Friday. This was in addition to the 12000 on Thursday and the 6800 on Wednesday. The political establishment reacted by banning bulk text messages and MMS for the next fortnight and asked internet service providers to...

  4. Rumours make Assamese press the panic button

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    / August 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    “Tarun Gogoi has asked all Assamese living in any part of the country to return to Assam by August 20. Otherwise they face the risk of being targetted.” Ask many of those in Anjaiah Nagar and Siddique Nagar areas of Madhapur – the IT area of Hyderabad – and they...

  5. Autofocussed

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    / July 27, 2012 / 5 Comments
    I have always held the belief that by and large, auto-rickshaw walas across India are goons, thugs, louts, bullies and a few other unmentionable things which I can’t bring myself to utter in public. But every time I make a trip to Bangalore or thereabouts, this conviction of mine takes...

  6. When tradition triumphs

    Posted by smitha sarma
    / July 26, 2012 /
    Varamahalakshmi Habba (festival dedicated to The Granter of Bounty) has a ubiquitous acceptance in Bangalore; no amount of technology invasion or MNC culture has been able to dampen the spirit of this much revered occasion. Media publications readily acknowledge the Grace of the Goddess as is evident in the high...

  7. You are pushing students out of school

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    / July 18, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The story in `The Hindu‘ today from a Bangalore school where four students, admitted under the Right to Education (RTE) quota, were discriminated against by cutting their hair, was waiting to happen. In this case, the school, which has been opposed to the RTE’s 25 per cent quota for economically...

  8. Yeddy has his way in Karnataka

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    / July 8, 2012 / 1 Comment
    “In his tenure, Sadananda Gowda did good work and the performance of our government was very good. There were no complaints against him on grounds of corruption but keeping the party’s interest in mind, as a good party worker, he has resigned.” Thus spoke Nitin Gadkari, the BJP’s president with...

  9. Endgame in Karnataka?

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    / July 5, 2012 /
    The game has gone for over a year now. The game of musical chairs, that is. With the BJP central leadership unable to make up its mind on how to deal with the fresh rebellion a fortnight from the Yeddyurappa camp, it let the music flow and keep the chief...

  10. BJP, a party with diffidence

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    / July 1, 2012 /
    Oh no, not again. That’s the familiar groan every time, yes, every time B S Yeddyurappa decides to raise the banner of revolt. This chief minister-turned-thorn in the BJP flesh has clearly emerged as the Principal of the Rebel Politicians College of India. The optimist in him refuses to die...

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