Toilet Talk
Whoever made the statement that the country hosts more temples than toilets, during the initial days following the call from the top brass in the government on October 2, 2014, for people…


Whoever made the statement that the country hosts more temples than toilets, during the initial days following the call from the top brass in the government on October 2, 2014, for people…
The land’s rishis of a distant past, as portrayed through sculptures of centuries vintage and the faded paintings that are found in caves that have not been exposed to vagaries of climate…
A verse in the Bhagavadgita conveys the message that has stood the test of time and more relevant in present times. People at large implicitly follow, read, copy whatever persons of virtue…
Advances in both technology and science as an outcome are considered to have benefited the rapidly expanding sector of medicine to an extent no less than the sector of space exploration. Even…
Even as global rating agencies are taking a close look at the economic ups and downs of different countries with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in astronomical proportions, India too joining the…
Luring consumer fraternity, the land’s masses in reality, in the present era of consumerism, to cough up cash and buy goods, whether they meet a clear necessity or impulse buying, has its…
Human beings are in competition among themselves in choosing attires for covering their bodies unlike all other species without the ability to emulate the human kind. Mercifully, the emergence of cotton and…
A classical description of money, attributed to some highly rated economist, is crisply stated as ‘Money is what money does.’ The term beauty has its time-honoured perception expressed in a simpler yet…
Currency circulating in the country’s economy and used in trade and by its people at large has been witnessing unprecedented intervention by the government, the recognised authority for its issue as legal…
The nation is currently at the top, globally, in the fast-growing area of information and communication technology, thanks to the tireless efforts by its army of computer software professionals. Further, Bengaluru figures…
Learning languages and choice of language as medium of instruction at primary and secondary school stages seem to have got into the crucible of confusion and cauldron of controversy in the camp…
The expression of an unknown vintage Cleanliness is next to Godliness has been appropriately modified as Swachh Bharat Swasth Bharat (Cleanliness in the land means an affliction-free land), attributed to someone among…
The impression of foreigners about India and its people at large that one comes across in media is marked by both praise and uncomplimentary remarks. For the purpose of pondering over the…
We have amidst us a fast diminishing number of elderly citizens who can recount from their unfailing memory the many aspects of salary that jobs commanded even during the closing years of…
The air is abuzz with the call from the top to keep the environs around the land’s people free from garbage, with emphasis on urban space across the country. No such call…
The Green Revolution that happened in the country during the decade of 1960s has just been subjected to scrutiny in some informed circles. The verdict that the field practices defining the landmark…
Facing life’s blues by different sections in the land’s population has tended to be getting tougher than ever before. Even the outlook towards that daunting task, needing a philosophical bent of mind,…
The two parameters commonly considered in deciding about obesity of people being height and weight, the third feature namely shape of the body, apart from the look of the face, seems to…
The body of standards or principals derived from a code of conduct as part of the land’s time-honoured culture and believed by many to be universal has just faced mass disfavour in…
By T.J.S. George So what were the most indiscreet, absurd, ridiculous and damfoolish statements of 2018? Not that anything this year can overshadow the all-time record set by Mulayam Singh Yadav. Remember…
The current state of distress bugging the land’s diaspora cannot be described meaningfully in mere words. The urbanites may have brought it on them by their myriad indiscreet acts while the rustics…
Portraying the female as the weaker sex, in whatever sense of the term, has lately tended to sound anomalous. Perhaps, the feature of males outnumbering the females in the land’s current population…
Attitude of the young sections in the world at large as well as across the country to life, markedly volatile in its ways has tended to mentally disturb the seniors for good,…
The treatise on financial matters attributed to Vishnu Gupta of 2,500 years vintage, also referred to by names Kautilya and Chanakya, one of the officials in the court of King Chandragupta Maurya,…