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He certainly isn’t the sort whom most folks would define as even remotely ‘successful’. After all, he isn’t rich and famous and doesn’t have a ‘glamorous’ job. But, as far as I am concerned, Ramesh, whom I met on a recent trip to Kerala, is definitely among the most amazingly successful people I’ve ever come across. Ramesh is an assistant at a centre for mentally retarded people, and that’s where

Come Ramadan and this triangular snack becomes a must-have in the everyday Iftar shopping list. Pretty much the way Samosas have become an inevitable part of Ramadan in Mangalore, Bunder’s Bombay Lucky Restaurant has, over the years become synonymous with the snack itself. Riding on the name it has earned over a period of almost 100 years with its cuisines, Bombay Lucky Restaurant is not

Even though the much-needed road widening and concretisation works have been successfully completed in many parts of Mangalore city long ago, the traffic flow continued to be affected thanks to the incompetency of the Traffic Police and increasing menace of illegal road-side parking and double parking near places of commercial activity. The lack of civic sense among motorists, who tend to violate

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