KS Muralidharan It’s now an all too familiar pattern: When the Pakistani cricket team visits India, a section of our mainstream media regurgitates its old vomit of how wonderful hosts the Pakistanis are and blah-blah about their famous hospitality. This, then is contrasted, with a barely concealed hint, at how…

KS Muralidharan Have you ever gone to a celebrity auction sale? Here, you will notice that perfectly sane people will pay perfectly insane prices to own a perfectly useless item. Little wonder that celebrity memorabilia is slowly emerging as a booming industry and a terrific business opportunity. …

KS Muralidharan So you think the opposition has no stick to beat Narendra Modi with? The penny drops here. The INDIA alliance has finally stumbled on a workable template that can pose an effective challenge to the Modi-led NDA. …

KS Muralidharan No country can challenge India when it comes to being unique. Where else will you find a majority community which comprises over 80% of the population being treated as second class citizens in their own country? This, let us admit, is an elephant-in-the-room kind of truth. But ironically…

KS Muralidharan Even if you know next to nothing about Indian politics, two headlines in the front page of Times of India dated July 27 tell you enough, for you to give a discourse on LS Elections 2024! The two headlines: DKS to MLAs: No funds for development work in…

KS Muralidharan The opposition parties trying to forge a united front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP has excited a few media Moguls to push their own agenda. However, Home Minister, Amit Shah has thrown a spanner in their works. After the Patna fiasco where all the PM-hopefuls…

Show your trademark cool. Quit when people ask why, and not why not KS Muralidharan “I will play one more IPL season for CSK as a gift to my fans” said the one and only MSD, a more intoxicating brand than LSD, and equally if not more, addictive for his…

A Rafale Redux Moment for Congress KS Muralidharan The clean chit given to Gautam Adani by the Supreme Court-appointed expert committee over serious allegations made by US-based Hindenburg Research is yet another slap on the face of Rahul Gandhi, after the Rafale fiasco, where too he similarly went to town…

Karnataka’s per capita highest among large States, and yet there is anti-incumbency? KS Muralidharan What’s the seemingly unassailable power of a narrative that strives to dominate the public mind-set? …