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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Ugadi

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Tomorrow is ugadi, [literally yuga (era) adi (beginning)] the traditional new year’s festival. Ugadi falls on Chaitra Sudhdha Paadyami or the first day Chaitra. All the family members, young and old, are woken up early. Then immediately, a tonne of oil is poured on their head, followed by an elaborate massaging of each strand of [...]

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After the elections

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Rajyasabha elections in Karnataka are over and the industrialist has won over the writer.
Yes, Rajeev Chandrashekhar managed to ‘buy’ the most number of votes in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and has been elected to the Rajyasabha. What he will do in the next six years remains to be seen, but if we go by our [...]

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Dr. Rajkumar: Satya Hariscandra

Saturday, March 25, 2006

The plot of the film, Satya Hariscandra follows Raghavanka’s Hariscandra Kavya closely in its broad outline, but the primary objective here is to depict Hariscandra as a flawless character, truthful, unfailingly polite and dharmic.
Hence the film sets out to establish Hariscandra’s character as a truthful and generous king, who never refuses anything to any seeker [...]

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Hariscandra-2

Friday, March 24, 2006

This week let me return to Hariscandra and post what I wrote in mid-February. Here are the links to earlier stories: Raghavanka -1, Raghavanka - 2, From Cavundaraya to Hariscandra and Hariscandra.
In these earlier posts, I had written on the Sanskritic, puranic versions of the Hariscandra narrative, as well as on the two well known [...]

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Why Test Cricket?

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Now that India has managed a magnificent grand total of 100 runs in the fourth inning of a home test match, that too on a firm batsmen friendly wicket, let the post-mortem begin. There will be much analysis. Our Desi ex-stars will ask that the foreign coaches and fitness experts be held accountable. They will [...]

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Bush, Devegowda and Ananthamurthy

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Let us begin with a word on the Hopeful One’s press conference this morning. There have been a spate of OPEDs (tired of linking them/commenting on them) in recent times, blasting Bush for being out of touch and for living in his fantasyland. But here is what struck me this morning, again: read his responses [...]

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