Sunday, July 09, 2006

When Raja Rao dies

Hassan Raja Rao is no more.

Usually readers wanted to know how did Kannada newspapers cover his demise. All the newspapers have treated this story as a usual obit but Vijay Karnataka.

VK has devoted one full page featuring his childhood, education, family matters and his contribution to literature. It is a deserving tribute and gesture to a great writer by "Samastha Kannadigara Hemme"

Other Kannada dailies including English newspapers have utterly failed in this regard.

Well done Vijay Karnataka!

Sunday, July 02, 2006

What happened to Churumuri?

Churumuri.wordpress.com has been surprisingly silent about Vijay Karnataka and Vijay Times after they were acquired by the Times of India group. Before the takeover the Churumuri posted atleast one story a day.

Some of the stories kicked of heated debates among Kannadigas. One story, even attracted as many as 325 comments from the bloggers. All of a sudden, Churumuri mum on the post-aquisition developments.

The grapevine has it that the editor of Churumuri is likely to join Vijay Times as its editor and hence no story.

In fact that's the real churumuri to talk about.