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Over a hundred book lovers gathered for the launch of Aditi De's book Multiple City on Saturday. The paperback puts together articles about our city, and as you might expect, provides a platform for some healthy Bangalore vs Bengaluru polemics.

The crowd comprised writers, artists, scientists and techies, many of whom have contributed to the making of the book. Both Bangalore and Bengaluru were represented in good measure. On offer at Crossword, besides copies of the book, were Bengaluru favourites by-two coffee and nippattu (not Bangalore favourites wine and cheese, mind you!).
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A rock legend met the Lolita of Indian classical music at Palace Grounds on December 2.

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull played some unusual music with Anoushka Shankar, the talented daughter of sitar maestro Pandit Ravishankar, even as the audience kept an eye out for rain.

Anoushka kicked off the show with a couple of her father's raga compositions. She avoided the traditional alaap-jod-jhala elaboration and its meditative unfolding, and rushed instead into fast tempo compositions.
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Suddenly, India is furious with its politicians.

As all the bottled-up anger pours out, many heads are rolling. Shivraj Patil, who prided himself on his dapper manner, was first shown the door, and then it was R R Patil, Maharashtra's deputy chief minister, who had told an incredulous world that these blasts were no big deal.

The next to go will be chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who smilingly strolled the corridors of the Taj as though at a painting exhibition just a day after the commandos had cleared the hotel of the marauding gunmen. Outdoing his colleagues in insensitivity, he had a film director and movie star for company.
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Last evening, I met Chandra, a dear friend from my university days. She showed her film Remembrance of Things Present at a festival organised by Pedestrian Pictures, and answered questions from movie buffs.

Chandra was married, when she was barely 16, to a distant relation who worked as a university professor. She had a child a year after that, and was caught in a world that she felt had stifled all her choices. Not that her husband was unkind or anything. It was just that she felt she had been cheated of a normal life: growing up, studying, finding love and then getting married....

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As we predicted yesterday, Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy have justified holding a rally in Bangalore and putting thousands of people to inconvenience.

They were defiant and ticked off Bangaloreans who had complained that their children had been stranded inside their school vehicles.

Now, this means Deve Gowda's party, the JD(S), doesn't care about Bangalore voters, and is playing to the rural gallery.

Deve Gowda is a teetotaller and a vegetarian, and can impress village folk with his histrionics. His son Kumaraswamy is a bit of a villager and an urbanite, but his grandchildren are out and out city slickers (you may have heard that one of them, Nikhil Gowda, allegedly got into a late night brawl at Hotel Empire)....

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