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Professor M Jameel
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Encounters with R K Narayan
It's not everybody who has had the
privilege of being R K Narayan's neighbor for about two decades, which I did
when I lived in Yadavagiri Extension in Mysore city. I had a chance
"encounter" with him playing cricket with my younger brothers in the
summer of 1982 and I developed a special personal relationship with him. It is
only fitting that I should like to write about it on the first death
anniversary of this literary genius, a noble soul with a warm and humane
personality who lived in an "ivory tower" and was yet accessible to
people. Read
On
"Horse-trading"
an alarming trend in Indian politics
The 'defection' of
NCP MLA Padamkar Vali to Shiva Sena which he now claims to have been under
duress (that is under the threat of blackmail and his latest turn about and 'redefection'
to the NCP have given a bizarre dimension to the political crisis. Is then
there not a case for amendments to the anti-defection law so plug the
loopholes in it? It is a case of the remedy being worse than the disease, as
the prospective defectors and their abettors have to engineer defections on a
fairly large scale to circumvent the anti-defection law. Thanks to their evil
genius, the Indian ruling class is able to circumvent any law, which ties them
down to a set of democratic norms. Read
On
The
Fable of the donkey in the guise of a Tiger
This
comes in the wake of the vulgar display only last week of strength by the
major political parties in support of their candidates in the run up to the
filing of nomination papers for the Narasimharaja Legislative Assembly seat in
Mysore city especially by the Congress party was sickening. The most
objectionable part of course was the tableau portraying the saint among kings
Hazrath Tippu Sultan-e-Shaheed as part of the procession, which was in bad
taste. Read
On
My
Father
No body bothered to
contact my father after the release of the cine-actor. Quite a few people felt
that Mr. Rajkumar should have called on my father as a matter of courtesy. But
my father has no regrets. As a matter of fact, none of us has any
regrets over it. We are all very happy that he was released safe, true to our
hopes and expectations. It was a spineless establishment dancing to the
tune of the outlaw that believed that something terrible might happen to the
hostages, if they did not capitulate to the bandit's demands, until the Apex
Court showed them their place on my father's Appeal. Read
On
Azeez
Sait...
It was sickening to
read about the episode involving Azeez Sait who smoked cigarettes at public
functions on August 11th and again on the Independence day in utter violation
of the ban on smoking in public. In the first incident, he smoked right under
the nose of the Home Minister and what is more the DGP & IGP of Karnataka,
even as the authorities looked on helplessly. Read
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