churumuriIn the age of #MeToo, ashtanga yoga guru Pattabhi Jois’s grandson Sharath Jois says ‘sorry’ to students for the pain and trauma caused by the legend’s “improper adjustments”
Fact: All three of yoga's modern gurus---S.T. Krishnamacharya, B.K.S. Iyengar, and K. Pattabhi Jois---have a link with Mysore. Fact: Pattabhi Jois (in picture, above) introduced Ashtanga Yoga across ...
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churumuriWas the last Maharaja of Mysore really a musical whiz, as his courtiers claim? Or, was the king merely passing off a subject’s work as his own, as R.K. Narayan alleged?
The centenary anniversary of the birth of the last Maharaja of Mysore, Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar (1919-1974), has kicked off in the erstwhile kingdom, in a renewed burst of royalty that is both revere...
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churumuriWhy Mahatma Gandhi turned down an offer to visit Pakistan in 1947. Because, in Delhi….
A prominent question since the declaration of the results of the general elections of 2019 has been: why was Karnataka the outlier in the South? Why did the state of Basavanna and Kuvempu, a diverse l...
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churumuriWhen a real-estate baron officially worth Rs 1,015 crore runs into Vidhana Soudha to tender his resignation, it tells you something is rotten in the state of Hoskote
Karnataka's politics is something that you can only speak of in the past tense. This was the land of the first representative assembly. This was where the earliest social reforms and reservations bega...
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churumuriEight reasons why Indian cricket looks like Indian politics today: a loud, mindless cauldron of ‘desh bhakti’, unaccountable, Pakistan-obsessed, and a darling of shady corporates
In the late 1980s, the then Editor of The Times of India, Girilal Jain, wrote that in India, politics sets the pace and everything else follows in its wake. In other words, every sphere of Indian life...
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churumuriLooking at Karnataka politics today, who would think this was the State that floated the concept of “value-based politics”?
No sensible Kannadiga with an ounce of decency left in her will want to make sense of the ongoing political disgrace in the State. There are better things to do in life—in World Cup season—than to...
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