Would Sanjay Dutt show the way?

Today’s prime news in most TV channels and a post by blogger Tanay triggered this piece. First, the news: Bollywood productions valued at Rs.100 crores have been on hold since Sanjay Dutt was sent to jail some weeks back. And the apex court order releasing him on bail is the best news the film industry [...]

Of an unfilmed Pak movie

Remember Adnan, a blogger friend in Karachi who posted his tribute to late Kishore Kumar? He showed guts, knowing that he would draw flak from tradition-bound circles that consider music not very Islamic. Adnan, who normally  blogs politics and religion, has readership among traditionist Pakistanis.
I revisited his blog today out of curiosity, to see how the Emergency [...]

Bangalore media: Silly season is here

The media in Bangalore appears to be on loose ends in the absence of spoon-fed news stories generated by coalition politics. A recent newspaper report said journalists were finding hard news stories hard to come by under the governor’s rule. In the earlier regime, reporters on the state secretariat beat had  ‘the privilege of meeting [...]

Manivannan’s here to stay; sorry, Shimoga

As a Mysorean my first thought on learning of the fall of the Yeddyurappa government was, “Manivannan won’t have to move, after all”. His transfer order to Shimoga would have been given effect had Mr Y survived Monday’s assembly session. Mysore municipal/MUDA commissioner Mr Manivannan would have moved to Shimoga, Mr Y’s native place.
But then [...]

More on CM’s office ‘homa’

Must concede that our CM appears more sensible than some of his party colleagues. Mr B S Yeddyurappa doesn’t seek to justify his arguably questionable act, of doing homa in the chief minister’s chamber at Bangalore’s Vidhana Soudha. But his party chief in Karnataka. Mr D V Sadananda Gowda, weighs in with a justification.
Mr [...]

Mysore be damned; shift Manivannan

Karnataka chief minister Mr B S Yeddyurappa is reported to  asked a media person, in the wake of the tranfer of Mysore’s municipal/MUDA commissioner Mr P Manivannan, “Is it a sin to have an upright officer in my home district ?” No sir,  but couldn’t this be done without shifting Mr M, upsetting his plans for Mysore? [...]

Mysore bloggers milan

It takes all sorts to make a world, the blog-world. The blogger Milan on Friday was modest enough to be a drawing-room affair; but it brought together a mixed bunch – a Singapore-based aviator, a builder, cardiologist, a techie company CEO, a biz journalist, Lions Club activist, a bureaucrat and a ‘was-man’ (has-been newsman). The [...]

Singapore-type car quota in Bangalore ?

Sure, we can put a cap on the number of cars on road in Bangalore, but our city administration needs to go authoritarian first. Our kind of governance – entailing committee deliberations, wider consultations, consensus – is not designed for radical measures. I recall union finance minister P Chidambaram’s prescription for Mumbai, in another context. [...]

Blogs and our cops

A surprising number in my peer group (senior citizenry) believe blogs are a waste of time. They subscribe to the line, I nicked from Vivek’s blog , ‘Those who can, do; the blokes who can’t, blog’. (nice line to be put on t-shirt or customized coffee mug). Vivek kumar, who hosts The Other Side, doesn’t seem a ‘can’t’ [...]

How about a Mysore Bloggers Milan?

The idea crossed my mind when he phoned to invite me to Id Milan at the Philomena’s this Sunday. The caller, a local newspaper columnist, agreed it was a good idea, and confirmed his participation right away.
The idea is to have a get-together of bloggers and backers of the Mysore Blog Park (MBP). A Singapore-based MBPer [...]