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What role should swamijis, religious gurus play?71 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago:     NIKHIL MORO writes from Mount Pleasant, Michigan: The alleged use of “mine power” by … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, Adichunchunagiri Mutt, Anil Ambani, Balagangadharanath Swami, Basava, Bhadragiri Achyut Das, BJP, churumuri

CHURUMURI POLL: Are MLAs deceiving voters?80 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: The decision of four newly elected MLAs, two each of the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular), to resig … more →

Tags: Churumuri Poll, Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, BJP, churumuri, Congress, election commission, JDS

If God wanted to be an MLA, he'd be Independent5 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Indra jumped off his simhasana as if struck by a million volts. He had jus … more →

Tags: Kannada & Karnataka, Tongue In Cheek, brahma, churumuri, Devatha, Indra, Menaka, Narada, Rakshasa

'Home' is where the chief minister's heart is26 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: A photograph may convey a thousand words, but a cartoon conveys a few thousand more. With Karnataka … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, Tongue In Cheek, B.S. Yediyurappa, churumuri, Shobha Karandlaje, V.S. Acharya

Why can't those fools see what the Queen can?57 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: Three-time Mandya MP and former Union minister of State for information and broadcasting, M.H. Amarn … more →

Tags: Music, Films, Television, People, Amarnath Gowda, Ambarish, churumuri, Congress, MANDYA, Sonia Gandhi, Srirangapatna

What a front-row seat at a swearing-in costs BJP18 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: The transmogrification of the fortunes of our representatives upon ascending the steps of the Vidhan … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Arun Jaitley, B.C. Khanduri, B.S. Yediyurappa, Bhairon Singh Shekawat, BJP, Congress, L.K.ADVANI, Murli Manohar Joshi

From the secret diary of Sardar Manmohan Singh20 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: M.J. Akbar lays his hands on the personal jottings of the prime minister for the benefit of Khaleej … more →

Tags: Kannada & Karnataka, Tongue In Cheek, churumuri, HD Deve Gowda, Khaleej Times, M.J. Akbar, Manmohan Singh, Prithviraj Chauhan

'Once-gallant state now backs an unknown devil'19 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: Ashok Mitra in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Chikmagalur on the Nilgiri foothills was a special si … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, Ashok Mitra, BJP, churumuri, Congress, Indira Gandhi, Lingayats, Sonia Gandhi

BJP has won the war; it needs to win its battles18 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Call it lack of skill and experience in political manageme … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, Ananth Kumar, B.S. Yediyurappa, churumuri, Governor, Jagadish Shettar, legislature, Mallikarjuna Kharge

When a legislator loses more than just a berth30 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: The ministerial ambitions of H.S. Shankaralinge Gowda, the four-time BJP MLA from the Chamaraja asse … more →

Tags: Kannada & Karnataka, People, B.S. Yediyurappa, BJP, churumuri, H.S. Shankaralinge Gowda

Happiness is a warm gun, and a half-page color ad21 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: The newly elected MLA from Vijaynagar, Anand Singh, continues on his lyrical journey, this time expr … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, Anand Singh, B. Sriramulu, churumuri, G. Janardhan Reddy, G. Karunakar Reddy, G. Somashekhar Reddy, Reddy Brothers

Karnataka: the verdict and the aftermath

wordlyaffair wrote 1 year ago: At last the BJP sees light at the end of the tunnel, hope it’s not that of an incoming train! … more →

Tags: Elections, Politics, Regional, Bangalore, BJP, Congress, Devegowda, JDS, RSS

All hail the wise and sagacious Karnataka voter5 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: The BJP hoisting the saffron flag for the first time on it … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, BJP, churumuri, Congress, election commission, HD Deve Gowda, JDS

The gateway to the south as seen from up above48 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: The view of the swearing-in ceremony from the roof of Visvesvaraya Towers (top); the lone woman mini … more →

Tags: Kannada & Karnataka, People, B.S. Yediyurappa, BJP, churumuri, Karnataka Photo News, Photography, Shobha Karandalaje

If they could have criminal MLAs, why can't we?31 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: Three days before the Karnataka results were declared, the BJP had accused the UPA of criminalising … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, BJP, C.T. Ravi, churumuri, Congress, election commission, JDS, Lalu prasad Yadav

'Moily will struggle to win a municipal election'5 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: Rajdeep Sardesai on CNN-IBN: “Karnataka is only the latest example of the time warp the Congre … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, churumuri, CNN-IBN, Congress, Margaret Alva, Prithviraj Chauhan, Rajdeep Sardesai, SM Krishna

All the little flowers that bloomed with the lotus14 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: L.K. Advani, Narendra Modi, Prakash Singh Badal, Rajnath Singh join Karnataka’s 25 chief minis … more →

Tags: Kannada & Karnataka, People, B.S. Yediyurappa, churumuri, LK Advani, Narendra Modi, Prakash Singh Badal, Rajnath Singh

The criminalisation of politics or the vice-versa?51 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: The defining feature of the Karnataka elections of 2008 is the legitimisation of big money as being … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, Anand Singh, B.S. Yediyurappa, Bellary, BJP, churumuri, Congress, Mining Lobby

If Bangalore's so hot, why are its netas so thanda?12 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: K.P. Nayar, The Telegraph’s Washington correspondent, writes of how the Karnataka elections we … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, churumuri, Congress, Fulbright, george washington university, SM Krishna, The Telegraph, Thomas L. Friedman


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