Jaago Bangalore, jaago

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Sons and heirs For the last few weeks, the biggest buzz in Karnataka politics has been of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra contesting this Lok Sabha election. From the CM's home-district, Shimoga. After intense speculation (by the media, of course) and outcry among the BJP's other aspirants, the CM-avaru was forced to say his son won't contest as that's not in keeping with party policy. That is, there's to be no dynastic polity, it seems. Raghavendra, who's been voted to the Shikaripura Town Municipal Council earlier, is, alas, out of the game as of now. The JD(S) is another party where dynasties are honoured. While patriarch and MP Deve Gowda's two sons are in the Assembly now, his daughter-in-law Anitha too passed the test of the ballot in a recent by-election to join the Assembly. Party circles were soon talking about....

Some science and some religion

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Vishwa He was your typical awkward teenager - uncomfortable with 'girls' all around, not sure if what he had done was great, yet liking some of the limelight. The kid I'm talking about is Vishwanath B Hiremath - the class IX student whose rocket flew the highest in his intra-school rocket-making competition. It was just an experiment to give their students an idea of what rocket science is all about, that led me to this boy. The school had decided to teach them rocket-building, albeit rocket-firecrackers - and asked each batch of students to demonstrate their capability at the school grounds. 'Vishwa,' as he is called, struck me not because he came first - but because he cried. Soon after getting the certificate from the chief guest - in this case, Isro chairman Madhavan Nair - he was surrounded by mikes and cameras. Every channel wanted to....