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Mangalore sees another incident of moral policing. The very first information that I received regarding the July 28 attacks was on a news channel which said something on the lines of a ‘rave’ party being interrupted by a bunch of men, where the young crowd was beaten up. I do not remember the channel that I was watching because the absolutely horrific video of the attacks blinded me with rage. I

The infighting within the BJP has come out in the open on several occasions during the course of its first term in power in Karnataka. It was there for all to see in the circumstances which led to the appointment of yet another Chief Minister in the State recently too. Disunity has become synonymous with the BJP in Karnataka and the equation between Anwar Manippady and Mumtaz Ali Khan, the two

The Ministry of Women and Child Development, so the newspapers say, has recently come out with what it styles as the draft ‘National Policy for Children 2012’, which ostensibly seeks to give children the right ‘to express their opinion in all matters affecting them.’ The draft will be adopted after receiving opinions from numerous ‘stakeholders’. I have not the faintest idea what provisions this

I was born in a village up in the mountains of interior Nepal some fifty years ago. They say that Nepal is among the poorest countries in the world. I can vouch for that because my village is in one of the poorest districts in the country and my family is among the poorest in the village. My father had no land and so was forced to work in India as a coolie. When I grew up, I followed him and did

Anwar Manippady, Chairman, Karnataka State Minorities Commission, was recently in the news for exposing scholarship and Wakf Board scams, the latter bringing to light alleged misappropriation of Rs 200,000 crore. In this exclusive interview he speaks to Coastaldigest.com about them and other issues. You recently exposed some scholarship irregularities claiming that injustice has been done to

The more I think about it the more I am convinced that it really is, as the saying goes, ‘a mad, mad world’ and that the struggle to remain sane has to be waged, quite literally, on a daily basis. Try out this simple experiment to see what I mean: Stand on a street corner and watch people go by. Almost every adult you see is rushing about on ‘work’, looking preoccupied or miserable and driven by a

The last summer Mangalore witnessed was one of the worst it had seen in many years. For a good two to three months, the city struggled for water and the plummeting of level at Thumbe Dam to alarming levels only compounded problems. The city finally received the much needed and anticipated showers, although there are a few who feel that the amount of rain that has hit the district so far has not

Mangalore, July 4: He is one of the many convicts who are in Mangalore to perform on stage in the ‘Jailininda Jailige Rangayatre’ programme being held at Town Hall in the city. Like most of his jail mates, he wants release and is looking forward to living a life of dignity in the remainder of his life. And, so did the once dreaded brigand Veerappan, says Amburaj, with whom he spent six months as

The IPL brought celebrations across the country, but India TV’s sting operation is the most recent example of how cricket went down the wrong road yet again. TP Sudhindra, Shalabh Srivastava, Mohnish Mishra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali have been rightly either banned completely or suspended by the BCCI, but we faced many questions over the integrity of the domestic sport. Then emerged the full

With VRL chief Vijay Sankeshwar launching ‘Vijaya Vani’ on April 1 earlier this year, yet another daily entered the already flourishing Kannada journalism industry. Today Kannada journalism as a whole encompasses media houses in the form of a number of TV news channels, multiple prominent dailies, and scores of tabloids and eveningers across the state. But spare a thought for the man who began it