Fast food, tobacco and alcohol are pouring into India, promoting a consumer culture. India should beware. It must not repeat the mistakes of the West, says Andrée-Marie Dussault in his article entitled Cellphone and the Soul, in the Times of India, dated 24th January 2010. Andrée-Marie is a Delhi-based correspondent of a Swiss newspaper.

Having to do with Jayanth Kaikini's Ondu Jilebi

Partha Desikan

An inspiring contemporary young Kannada poet has recently published a collection of his poems and there was a formal release in Bangalore.

Sri Ashoka reviewed the book for The Hindu offering sincere tribute in sober terms, referring to the poet's humanism as well as his involvement with the here, now and the immediate.

The review has been reproduced below.

Humanism, in the lyrical mode

Ondu Jilebi by Jayanth Kaikini