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Herrings are red. Strawmen are blue.
Picture this: One of your party MPs has just been publicly disgraced in a sleaze scandal which involves a possible judiciary casting couch. A 25 year old scam resurfaces, casting aspersions at none less than your party’s High Priestess and her Family. Someone touted as a one man army is hounding...
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They don’t make Men like this anymore
It came hurtling down heavy and hard, at 150 kilometers an hour. It hit the ground and took off as if it fed off an invisible source of venom in the earth. It seemed to have perfected the art of hunting. Like all predators, it went for the throat. Baring...
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Middle Class? Phooey!
“For all the troubles that befall you, Shani (Saturn) is the sole reason” – Kannada proverb. I’m reminded of this every time some public intellectual makes the middle class an object of ire and derision. While the fact that all roads of power in India currently lead to Rome (a...
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Bhagavad-Gita as the ‘National Book’?
“The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization. – Sri Aurobindo” Let’s be clear at the very outset that this piece arises from a premise that India/Bharata/Hindustan...
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Of slaps and a few chaps…
(All characters are purely fictional. Any similarities between them and real individuals is possibly because of reader’s bias. We can confirm that author does not watch Indian news channel) Everyone and their granny has damning opinions on….well everyone else and their grannies. In such vitiated atmosphere, one worked-up Sikh, Mr.Harbinger...
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Bhyrappa – the Colossus
Few are the men who render effulgence to an award, rather than the other way round. Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa, popularly known as S.L.Bhyrappa needs no introduction as a doyen with that particular ability. He was recently awarded the Saraswati Samman for his novel “Mandra”, in which he delves into the...