This article is translated to English by Shruthi Rao from the Kannada article of Rohith Chakrathirtha. Think you are in a vegetable market, you ask the price of Ladies finger and the seller says “only…
Let us Pledge to Celebrate all our Festivals – in the Right Way
Translated by Rohinee Ram Shashidhar from Readoo Kannada. Bharath is a land of festivals and festivals are the time where love and joy are spread amongst the community members. It is said that on an a…
Dissecting Shourie: A run on Arun Shourie’s Recent Allegations on Modi’s India
This article is translated to English by Ashish Saradka. If you are an ardent music fan you are not foreign to the term “Jugalbandhi” a classic combination of two great musicians or two musical instru…
Who Will Lament If Prakash Rai Returns His Award?
This article was originally published in Readoo Kannada and translated to English by Shruthi B.S. This is a troublesome time for all those Kannada litterateurs who had done an award wapsi drama when D…
Hey Bhagavan!
I received a phone call from a journalist from a national level newspaper recently. A consequent conversation held as following. “What makes you people hate Bhagavan? Why do you react to him as if yo…
Comedy of Academy award returns
Some of the writers are returning the once given award to the Kendra Sahitya Academy as a revolt against the system. Some of them like- Nayanatara, Ashok Vajpai, Sara Josef, Rehman Abbas, Rahmat Tarik…