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Congress workers in Karnataka protest against D.K. Shivakumar’s arrest

Congress party workers, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of vindictive politics, protested in different parts of Karnataka following the char
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Congress workers in Karnataka protest D.K. Shivakumar’s arrest

Congress party workers, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of vindictive politics, protested in different parts of Karnataka following the char
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
B.S. Yediyurappa at the ceremony where he took oath as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, in Bengaluru on July 26.

Karnataka to have three Deputy Chief Ministers

B.S. Yediyurappa was sworn in Chief Minister of Karnataka on July 26 after the Bharatiya Janata Party toppled the Congress-Janata Dal (S) coalition go
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Tejasvi Surya.

Bengaluru MP’s bigotry on display

On August 16 evening, vandals belonging to a Kannada organisation tore a Hindi banner displayed at the entrance of Ganesh Bagh, a Jain religious and c
VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

Betrayed and lonely in Bengaluru

“Everyone knew that something big was going to happen. My house in Srinagar is a mere 20 minutes away from the airport, but it took us more than an ho
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
B.S. Yediyurappa being sworn in as Chief Minister of a BJP government in Karnataka by Governor Vajubhai Vala, in Bengaluru on July 26.

Tipu jayanti cancelled

Even before appointing his Ministers, B.S. Yediyurappa, the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, announced on July 30 that Tipu Jayanti would not be celeb
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B.S. Yediyurappa , who was sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka for the fourth time on July 26, with Governor Vajubhai Vala.

Travesty of democracy

The collapse of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka and the BJP’s back-door entry into power mark an egregious betrayal of the popula
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Deccan architecture

Architectural exploration in the sultanate of Ahmednagar can provide deep insights into the political history of the Deccan.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
June 22, 2005: Bengaluru Mayor R. Narayana Swamy (left) exchanging an MoU with C.C. Dasa, Director of ISKCON’s Akshaya Patra, on the mid-day meal scheme for corporation schoolchildren, at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike office.

Imposing a food culture

The controversy in Karnataka over the Akshaya Patra Foundation’s refusal to include onions and garlic in its mid-day meals in government schools raise
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
Hassan, December 2003: Girish Karnad participating in a protest against the detention of members of the Progressive Forum who were demonstrating against Datta Jayanthi celebrations at Datta Peetha at Bababudangiri near Chikmagalur.

Committed to secularism

Girish Karnad believed that it was wrong to view medieval Indian history as a clash between Hinduism and Islam and that often made him the target of t
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M.M. Kalburgi.

Making history accessible

A translation project, involving 21 volumes written in medieval Persian on the Adil Shahi dynasty of the Bijapur sultanate, which M.M. Kalburgi was he
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The Deccan chronicles

A racy, highly readable narrative of 300 years of Deccan political history from the 13th century to the 17th century.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
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