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If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Mysore by G.V. Krishnan

The Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation and the Mapple’s group of hotels, partners in running the luxurious Golden Chariot, need to devise more imaginative programming…

Greening Temples with Vriksha Archane by G.V. Krishnan

We worship the peepul or banyan as abodes of deities. But it doesn’t occur to many of us to plant trees around places of worship…

Bangalore Airport Tree-Corridor: Yes,We Can, Janet by G.V. Krishnan

Janet’s tree-sponsorship idea may be another idea waiting to evolve into a widespead civic movement, in the Exnora fashion…

Taslima Nasreen: Where Does She Go From Here? by G.V. Krishnan

I wonder if she ever regrets having written something, so long back, that was to pose a lifelong challenge to her life; to brand her infidel and be banished from Bangladesh…

Media: It’s Silly Season in Bangalore by G.V. Krishnan

Ministers fed the secretariat reporters with self-serving statements and lofty welfare announcements. What is spoon-fed is usually spin and hype, rarely hard news…

Of Bloggers and Doers by G.V. Krishnan

In Karnataka, police chiefs in three districts run blogs as a single-window source of police-related information to the media. The blogs, which mostly carry items of reported incidents of crime, do leave much to be desired in terms of input…

The Emergency and the Media Blackout by G.V. Krishnan

The power cut was there for all Delhi newspapers, not so much to curb attempted defiance by a few, as Ms. Lakshman suggests, but to enable the government to gain time to work out the modalities of enforcing censorship.

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