Blindfolded marchers

Am I missing something? I couldn’t figure out why a group of otherwise sensible social activists in Mysore, opposed to Chamalapura power plant proposal, should take to the street, blindfolded. Were they trying to convey that the public was being kept in the dark on the status of the power plant proposal? Or was it a self-admission by the [...]

For the record: Mysore airport upgrade

I don’t see the prospects of an A-320 landing at Mysore airport for some years to come. For the record, this is what officials say it would take to make this happen.
No crunch: Senior civil aviation official (Joint Secretary) K N Srivatsav says the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has no funds shortage for developing a [...]

Karnataka legislators on a China jaunt

So 89 Karnataka legislators (60 MLAs and 29 MLCs) are on a two-week China tour.  Seventy-five more are leaving Bangalore Monday next, according to a media report. The 164-member contingent would be assisted (as if the host country and our Beijing embassy staff wouldn’t) by a team of 13 legislative secretariat officials. 
The China tour, says [...]

About our envoy’s ‘headless chicken’ remark

Having been a newsman I concede the ‘headless chicken’ quote was, simply, irresistible. But I wouldn’t have used it without explicit clearance from Ambassador Ronen Sen. Maybe I’m being chicken-hearted, but in reporting matters that are potentially inflammable some of us from the old school of journalism weighed the words we print, even if they [...]

Same blog, new space

My Take by GVK has moved to this address. Click here to access earlier posts