Category: Media

TV channels overdid their jobs! They played up the youth victory theme rather too far and too unbalanced way! Who are these youths are? They are neither from the poor or the middle classes. They are from the privileged families. Let us see what this means for the emergence and the evolution of democracy in…

Opportunistic alliances cut across principles and credibilties of parties and leaders! So, parties can throw away all principles? All arty leaders can dream of Prime Ministerial ambitions? Which party has some commitment to India as one country? One strong country? It is rather embarrassing to listen to L.K.Advani calling for a strong leadership and a…

Only second best in Carnataic music this season! Briju Maharaj, the Kathak guru was here! This December season in Chennai, it was as usual, houseful in all sabhas. The “kutcheris” were more in number and The Hindu ran almost a full-page engagements column, unusual for any newspaper and more so for a quality newspaper like…

Readers across the globe now have access to latest information in agriculture and related fields! Yes, thanks to the spread of Internet and along without our website (agricultureinformation.com) now in its 8th year of operations, there is a huge reservoir of demand for latest information in agriculture and related fields. This need we now address…

How after Kolkatta and Trivandrum, now comes Bangalore! There was this second Bengalooru International film festival in Bangalore. V.N.Subba Roth moving spirit behind it said it was a tremendous success though the Kannada film industry didn’t make much use of it. An estimated 75,000 people vitiated the festival. Girish Kaseravalli, the one star among the…

The traditional Bharata Natyam faces an identity crisis? There is a perceptible decline in the traditional art of Bharata Natyam, as we have known for long. On the one hand, there is the prim and proper stiff upper lip of the Kalakshetra style. They have thoroughly discouraged individual talents to blossom. In so many words,…

Appreciating music and dance A middle class paranoia contributes to decline of Carnatic music? Music and dance, a country’s cultural symbols, always were thriving in India, even under difficult situations. There is always an appreciating elite and the crowd in any society, devoted to the maintaining of standards. Now, suddenly, it seems the music and…

Our civil society must shout more loudly! The AP and Karnataka cases remind us our intolerance of open mind! What education, what liberal values, and what civil society we can be proud about? Open mind is what education is supposed to teach and inculcate. But in India we are yet to travel far. Our education…