The issue of distinguishing countries as developed and otherwise, being addressed based on economic parameters seems to have overlooked many time-honoured customs and beliefs with their roots in spirituality, thanks to the…
Mysuru hosts the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), set up in 1969 to help in evolving and implementing the language policy of Government of India, essentially based on research covering language…
Trailing the change in names of places from times dating back to several centuries of recorded history in various parts of the world, including India in general and its cities, towns as…
The saying necessity is the mother of invention may have emerged in the past prompting people to adopt every invention in the wake of one or the other necessity, meeting which made…
The Right to Information (RTI), under an Act of the Parliament of India, enacted on June 15, 2005, and assented on June 22 of the same year, for setting out the practical…
Both the skyline and the landscape across Mysuru are witnessing a steady change each passing year. More appropriately, the time-honoured residential areas in Mysore of yesteryears have made the city already bearing…
School-bound children, the harassed home-maker and the wage-earning father in a typical family team have their respective territories of work in daily life, currently witnessing an undergoing change of the time-honoured scene.…
Inter-country and also intra-country unrest seem to be going out of hands threatening national security and citizens’ safety in ways and on a scale like never before in human history. Human kind…
Policy, programme and plan of action relating to the multitude of sectors in the country’s economy ought to be addressed by successive governments at the Centre and its counterparts in the 36…
The expression Art is long, Life is short suggesting that works of art last much longer than human lives may require modification of its message in the current scenario of galloping advances…
Two topics that figured in exchange of pleasantries among urbanites at large until not too long ago used to be vagaries of weather and volatile inflation in the land. Even as they…
This column is devoted and dedicated to the now-disappearing fraternity of traders with their kiraana shops knocked out by headwinds in the form their customers favouring online orders and doorstep delivery of…
While one owes one’s knowledge to a guru, both inside the four walls of a classroom and beyond, customs emerge from life’s experiences. Postulates that we owe to science owe it to…
Saying that “when there is no money in one’s pocket, everything looks costly” is a gross understatement. The number of families in the land, unable to access cash for purchasing even bare…
Global agencies such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) publish findings of their surveys on many occasions with data and information relating to most of the countries across the world focusing on…
A simple postulate states that no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time. The land’s people commuting in automobiles, entering the market in a multitude of brands and…
Diminishing presence of females in the country’s population as their ratio to that of males is being projected in the media more frequently nowadays than in the days past. Thanks to the…
The expression might is right marks the scenario in the wild. The twosome agenda of the denizens in their territory can be passed as (a) assuage hunger and (b) sustain their respective…
The multitude of issues of the nation’s continued sovereignty and all round progress year-on-year seem to be getting stumped by wide media coverage of elections and by-elections taking place across the country…
Remembering Sage Valmiki by celebrating his (not-exactly-known) birthday with mass participation and government sponsorship and also discourses by seasoned professionals enchanting large audiences comprising children, women, and senior citizens getting transformed by…
The nation’s masses are being called upon by public speakers of all hues to be united and patriotic for ensuring solidarity as well as sovereignty of the country in a steadily deteriorating…
The list of maladies, bugging both our body and mind, seems to be galloping in number and intensity with no signs of abating, outpacing the global efforts of researchers in the field…
Progressive march of technology, with its origins in printing traced to several centuries past and currently reaching the digital era, thanks to the emergence of electronics, has resulted in a sea change…
Given the common event of most people getting scared at the sight of scary-looking insects, such as a caterpillar or a cockroach, despite the great advantage of relative size between the two…
