TRUTHS ABOUT THE TRICOLOUR, The Hindu
‘[Karnataka state BJP president Ananth] Kumar said Gujarat BJP unit president Rajendra Singh Rana will hand over the original national Tricolour to Uma [Bharti]. This flag was first hoisted by [...]
KEEPING THE WINDOWS OPEN, The Hindu
Writers in Kannada have won seven Jnanpith awards, a record equalled only by one other language, Hindi. But then there are many more speakers of Hindi. And of the seven [...]
THE SOCIOLOGY OF SUICIDE, The Telegraph
Karnataka has a large number of privately run medical and engineering colleges, to which flock students from all over the country. They come in the summer, when, for days upon [...]
A MAN TO MATCH HIS MOUNTAINS, The Hindu
On this, the fifty-seventh anniversary of Indian independence, I wish to write about the Indian of my acquaintance who best combines past with present. He is in his early fifties, [...]
EDUCATING OUR WOMEN, The Telegraph
Some years ago, while working on a history of cricket in India, I was reading issues of a now defunct newspaper called the Bombay Sentinel. It took time to get [...]
REFORMING THE HINDUS, The Hindu
Three men did most to make Hinduism a modern faith. Of these the first was not recognized as a Hindu by the Shankaracharyas; the second was not recognized as a [...]