Paying price as penalty
The air is abuzz with more and more people expressing their disenchantment about the soaring costs of medicare in general and the hospital bills in particular. A widely circulated broadsheet has just…


The air is abuzz with more and more people expressing their disenchantment about the soaring costs of medicare in general and the hospital bills in particular. A widely circulated broadsheet has just…
The term development, having been understood as prosperity in its widest meaning for all time past, merits a revisit, given the devastation it has wrought in the country’s metropolises, taking the case…
The two parties on either side of the time-honoured-but-now-gone-out-of-favour photographic camera, namely the person(s) to be shot and the photographer happened to be the same, the device having the facility of timer…
Impeccable implementation of the laws in Israel, zero-garbage open spaces including roads in Singapore, people’s innate desire to drill like the armed forces in Germany of not too long past and such…
The head of a division in a global institution pursuing the cause of populations bugged by pesky poverty wrote in his article published in a widely circulated daily that inclusiveness was the…
Bouncing with boundless energy, unaware of the gradually changing world of toddlers into living with restrictions stipulated by the seniors in the family, the child unwittingly progresses to adulthood encountering more restrictions…
Extramarital affairs and intramarital aberrations are so commonplace all over the world that prompts one to wonder at their news value, given their appearance in cold print in dailies of all hues,…
Achievers in different fields pursing relentlessly their professions and public speakers addressing their captive audiences from various platforms don’t seem to be giving up their penchant to lament the steep decline of…
If we are concerned with facing the much-talked-about water crisis across the country in general and Karnataka State in particular, we have to explore the few options in combating the problem. The…
The academics as well as professionals in the vast field of nutrition make it a point to emphasise the importance of balanced diet and the rich rewards by following their mantra that…
The acronym GDP for Gross Domestic Product is more commonly featured in public domain nowadays than in times past. A publication of International Monetary Fund (IMF) states that GDP measures the monetary…
The nation’s Lok Sabha is heading to be a reality for the 17th time in a span of seven decades of its rule as a democracy. The elderly may feel tickled if…
The education sector, primary and secondary schools in particular, continues to be the whipping boy as it were for its shortcoming on many counts, not to forget the phenomenon of school drop…
Three players are engaging each other in a national game. The land’s masses constitute the major party, diverse as they are on every conceivable count, not to ignore the languages they use…
Vedavyasa and Valmiki stand out as most ancient authors of scripts which represent a rich legacy of literary wealth with messages that are relevant for all times. Their successors in later generations…
The pace of life and ways of residents in urban spaces across the country seem to have left the senior citizens stranded and dazed. The gen next has neither the frame of…
The time-honoured outlook of respectfully remembering teachers, loaded with a deep sense of sentiment and raising one’s teacher to the rank of divinity (Gurudevobhava) seems to have faded to the point of…
The air is abuzz with claims of the incumbent government at the Centre, in the august company of the State government, in addressing the enduring problem of unemployment by creating the frequently…
Given the rising pitch and volume of verbal exchanges among the powers that be at the helm in most countries of the world in virtually all the regions of the planet in…
The ratio of urban and rural populations to the country’s total headcount has begun to be noticed with more than academic interest even as the number of cities, their spread of land,…
People of every generation, particularly the land’s senior citizens, can be heard expressing their disillusionment about the people of their succeeding generation, the section of youth in particular, on a multitude of…
Thanks to the two mutually competing factors namely, the limited total geographical area of the country and its steadily expanding population, resulting in gradually declining land needs per citizen, the issues of…
The countries of the world continue to be divided into two major categories, namely developed and developing. The latter class of countries, including India, earlier were wearing the uncomplimentary identity as underdeveloped.…
Addressing a gathering comprising representatives of business fraternity, both from India and many countries across the world at the Global Business Meet in the nation’s capital last week, the land’s Prime Minister…