Word: karnataka
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...family-values mores of Indian popular film, maternal love is the emotional constant: the hearth that warms the hero. And the Mother of all Mothers was Leela Chitnis, who died last week at 91. Born in Karnataka, she was already a young mother of four when she began her film career in 1935. In her first bloom of beauty, she brought a natural dignity and a naturalist acting style to love stories with Master Vinayak and Ashok Kumar. Chitnis had the art of suffering radiantly: under arched eyebrows, her large, luminous eyes could hold glistening tears seemingly for hours...
...DIED. H. NAGAPPA, 66, former minister in the southern state of Karnataka; from a bullet through the heart after being kidnapped in August by India's most wanted criminal, the elusive forest-dwelling bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan; in the Chengdi forests, India. Veerappan claims Nagappa was killed during a shootout with the police, but the authorities dismiss that as unlikely, saying he was shot at close range...
...enforcement officials in India, the career of notorious outlaw Muniswamy Veerappan has played out with depressing monotony: India's most famous criminal kidnaps someone famous, ransom is paid, police swear they'll catch him next time and the cycle repeats. The state governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in southern India claim to have spent $30 million over 15 years trying to capture him, but Veerappan?alleged to have had a hand in more than 130 murders?has remained untouchable, thanks to his jungle survival skills and police corruption. Now, after laying low for two years, he's tried...
This tense scene is from the current Hindi film hit Jungle, a biopic about Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 53, a notorious murderer, elephant poacher and India's most-wanted criminal. But in real life in the southern state of Karnataka, the bandit is playing out a much more riveting drama. Sunday, July 30, in a caper that could have come from a movie script, Veerappan led a dozen fellow bandits into the home of Rajkumar, 73, an ailing film icon, chattily asked Rajkumar's wife if she recognized him (she did, later recalling his unmissable mustache) and handed her an audiotape...
...seen whether those successful Indian Americans can go back to kick-start opportunities in their native land, in the way that a "reverse brain drain" of technical talent helped build Taiwan's computer industry in the 1980s and '90s. K.S. Ramakrishna, raised in the southern state of Karnataka, got an M.B.A. from Ohio's Case Western Reserve University in 1990 but was forced to return home when his family business near Bangalore ran into difficulties. He straightened out the firm--it makes electric cables--but was disgusted by the local business culture: the complacency, corruption and lack of vision...