Editorial
Marriage matters
The Kannada idiom Mane kattinodu, Maduve maadinodu, with the telling message of what portends anyone who embarks on the two landmark events of life, namely a) Owning a dwelling by spending on…
27 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Technology tramples tradition
The two factors that are close to the heart of human populations, namely (a) Technology as the wheel of perceptible change equated to progress and (b) Tradition as the unwritten code to…
26 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Daring demonetisation
Sending the country’s two high face value (denomination) currencies to the museum as it were on November 8, 2016, reportedly resulted in nearly 86 percent of transactional cash with people vanishing in…
25 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Dissatisfied diaspora
Public speakers of both kinds (a) Those who have keenly followed the history of the land’s regions hosting people speaking Kannada and (b) Those who draw from their speeches while addressing crowds…
24 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Diseases, drugs, devices
Medical attention by doctors, both general practitioners and specialists as well as super-specialists (whose expertise lies in a well-defined narrow area of medicine) to (a) Patients who can convey about their affliction…
22 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Disturbing Demographic Data
Aspiring for good Governance on the part of the land’s people and the extent to which its successive governments have measured upto that daunting task seem to have sidelined people’s role in…
21 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Cops-citizens connect
While the Police force is respected in some countries nationally and feared in some others, one is not sure where the khaki-clad law-keepers stand in respect of their connect with the land’s…
20 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Salvaging society’s seniors
Thanks to the many entitlements of the land’s senior citizens governed by both provisions made in its Constitution and laws introduced subsequently on different occasions as well as additional facilities that have…
19 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Beyond beauty of Birds
While most poets writing their lines about birds in general and their favourites in particular fascinate themselves and their adoring readers glorifying the flight at great heights and over long distances across…
18 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Downgrading Divinity
A seasoned columnist respected for his astute analysis of the ways of public figures in the West has rightly observed that the people we need to hear from most are the ones…
17 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Ambiance at workplace
Officers of various Departments of the Government and those of companies in the corporate sector make a fascinating study of their ambiance. While the scene that strikes an observer in the offices…
15 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Helping home-maker
Presence of women in fields, raising grains, filling the country’s food basket from the stage of sowing to the stage of moving the harvested mass rid of the inedible dockage for stocking…
14 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Nation’s netas in new light
Usually, rare events, including the case of a man biting the dog, when reported in the print media, not only draw the attention of readers of dailies but also figures in the…
13 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Enabling Employability
The need for and importance of raising the skill set in the economically productive sections of the nation’s population, estimated as more than three-fourths of its total headcount have just been bestowed…
12 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Smarting under smartness
Interacting with others over long distances without the aid of any communication device such as telephone, travelling by aircrafts with seating capacity not exceeding a limit, reaching destinations at the speed of…
11 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Constraints Compelling Change
In the poem ‘Idylls of the King,’ poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) wrote “The old order changeth, yielding place to new. And God fulfils himself in many ways, lest one good custom should…
10 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Eschewing entitlements
Debates on issues of availability and requirement of energy, in knowledgeable circles, particularly for heating both in industry and homes are bound to bestow focus on its renewable and non-renewable sources with…
8 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Widening Women’s Visibility
Lines from the land’s ancient scripts convey messages that are eternally relevant in the matter of safeguarding harmonious relationships among members of society. One such line, namely Yatra naari poojyanthe tatra ramanthe…
7 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Beauty and beholder
Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855-1897) popular throughout the English-speaking world during the years of late 19th Century for her light romantic works of fiction is said to be the first person…
6 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Media-Mass Mutuality
The boundless field of bringing information to the doorstep of the literati through literature produced in a hurry as it were at daybreak as well as time slots all the way upto…
5 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Casual concern for major matters
Thanks to the rapidly advancing features in the all-conquering field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) the ongoing surge in knowledge seems to have led to a scenario witnessing a dilemma in…
4 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Women on warpath
The idiom Marriages are made in heaven is cited by many occasionally. Interestingly, it fits into two contrasting situations namely, when the married couples live happily ever after and also when the…
3 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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Academic qualification Vs Avenues of livelihood
The stipulation for admission to the primary first year class, namely “not less than five years and ten months” followed in the State has recently witnessed a cosmetic change as it were,…
1 Dec 2018 · 2 min read
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“Want to be happy? ...be”
The caption for today’s column is a less publicised quote attributed to the renowned monk Swami Vivekananda (1862-1902). The prescription, sounding almost like a diktat, sounds simple but is loaded with message…
30 Nov 2018 · 2 min read