by Subhash Rai | Jul 8, 2021 | Karnataka
Akram Mohammed for Deccan Herald seems to think that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first reshuffle and expansion of the ministry is a clever “calculus aimed at the poll arithmetic.” I would agree with my good friend A Narayana of Azim Premji...
by Subhash | Dec 5, 2019 | Karnataka
Bypolls are key indicators on which way the political winds are blowing in a state or, indeed, even the country. In Karnataka, it is much more than that. It is about the survival of not just the government, but, more importantly, of political morality itself. The...
by Subhash | Aug 16, 2019 | Karnataka
The handling of the confidence vote proceedings in the Karnataka Assembly by Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar has sparked a furore. Depending on where one’s sympathies lie, it can be seen either as the actions of a fastidious man or a total sham. But for a neutral observer, it...
by Subhash | Jul 25, 2011 | Karnataka
Yeddyurappa is not one to give up without a fight. The man nor his supports thought ‘Operation Lotus’ politically repugnant. His moral compass for long seems have have lost its bearings. Will the much-awaited Lokayukta report prove his undoing? Finally,...
by Subhash | Jul 16, 2010 | Karnataka
Is this the end of the road for the Reddy brothers? That they too seem to have decided is in the hands of god. Nevertheless, given the power of money, and they have a lot of it, it seems a bit far-fetched that the end is near. But there’s been one change that...