We are hearing about human beings colonising Planet Mars, the nearest to Earth, at a future date. Travel time between the two Planets, currently being close to ten months, is beyond the…
The idiom The child is the father of man, originating from a poem scripted by the English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) in 1802, exclaiming the role of man behind the birth of…
No matter which city across the country one chooses to live in, particularly those hosting more residents than they would themselves feel comfortable in life from dawn to dusk, the unalloyed affinity…
Of the four pillars of Democracy (a) Legislature, (b) Executive (c) Judiciary and (d) Media, the Parliament, the bicameral Legislature comprising two Houses, vested with the responsibility for making laws, ostensibly to…
Debates on climate change and global warming that only the cognoscenti were busy with have not only interested lay people but also become louder and wider in public domain. Keen observers of…
The terms democracy and self-rule, if considered as synonyms, may have to be redefined in the current context of the country and its masses being taken for a ransom by everyone-knows-who, going…
Outlook and longevity have been linked by researchers on human behaviour. According to a report based on their study, published recently, people who have a sense of purpose in life appear to…
The country’s various Legislative bodies from Parliament to Panchayat, thanks to the people voting in favour of members with despicable profiles, barring exceptions, are in full glare of the media by virtue…
Mysureans have taken to walking-for-health habit in numbers that should amaze the walkers themselves. Their cohorts of the city who are now well past the age of 80 years are known to…
Issues concerned with older adults, particularly their healthcare adapted to their ageing bodies and disturbed minds, both from the social science angles and as a medical speciality seem to have suffered very…
The saying that a king is bestowed a place of importance in the territory of his reign while a scholar of eminence commands respect everywhere may need a revisit in our times…
When Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836-1886), the land’s mystic and mentor of the distinguished monk Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), who translated complex spiritual concepts into lucid and intelligible expressions within the grasp of lay people…
Authors of the land’s scriptures that date back to an era of undetermined vintage, lyrics in the land’s different languages attributed to composers of long past, biographers of eminent persons of their…
Given the feature of dailies virtually compelled to accommodate their column-space to reports of various kinds of criminal acts in today’s society, on an unprecedented scale, one cannot but remark that living…
Actions of Governments, both at the Centre and in the States as well as Union Territories, when recorded, amount to a virtual cornucopia of Acts, Rules and Regulations, bulging all the time,…
One of the most regulated sectors in the land with the greatest number of its players is the area of education, only next to agriculture along with the workforce in unorganised status,…
The term for any automatically operated machine replacing human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a human-like manner, namely robot is traced to a…
The times when many time-honoured areas among the multitude of human pursuits first witnessed emergence of terms such as bio-technology, bio-engineering, bio-this and bio-that and subsequently suffered veiled ridicule from the orthodoxy…
After God-knows-for-how-long, counted in centuries, including the periods mentioned in the land’s epics, sympathising with the home-maker tied to her dawn-to-dusk daily chores of keeping the family hearty and healthy, particularly cooking…
Who are bestowed respect and recognition in society? Are they who possess uncommon virtues and extraordinary scholarship or they who possess wealth in astronomical proportions? Given the contemporary societal scenario, the answer…
We are in an era witnessing the literati of the land, particularly the urban elite and their young cohorts giving up time-honoured customs and looking askance at the traditions that have endured…
Primary driving force for most inventions is a need. The time-honoured expression Necessity is the mother of invention, in the nature of a proverb, seems to hog attention more to the factor…
Governments in general and the incumbent Government of the country at the Centre in particular are marked with the noble intention of working for the country’s progress and welfare of its citizens.…
Reports about instances of different kinds of structures crashing even before they were completed in many regions of the country, including Karnataka, don’t seem to have triggered either attention from the administration…
