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Norway shows the way
Going by the matter appearing in print of the land’s dailies of all hues and also the regular telecast in various television channels during news time, one is prompted to infer that…
28 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Harnessing human capital
Two features of cities, both globally and across India, seem to be of great concern to both their administrations and the residents themselves. One is the headcount, both resident and floating numbers,…
27 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Mass in a Mess
Portraying India as the world’s largest democracy in a tone of its glorified image may sound pleasing while citing its expanding population, currently estimated as 135 crore, as a mass may not…
26 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Atheists, Agnostics, the Rest
Mysureans get to read in the columns of this daily, on some occasions, views of some individuals berating, what they understand as false beliefs of different sections of society, without any noticeable…
25 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Pesky perpetrators and plentiful milk
Among the many adorable achievements that India witnessed during the second half of the last century, two stand out. One is the green revolution credited to Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the most honoured…
24 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Society’s selfie
Even as the citizens are seen in public deviating from acceptable norms of conducting themselves towards others, creating sour atmosphere in society, the administration has no option other than passing orders in…
22 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Roads, streets and lanes
The term road, any stretch that connects two points, thanks to the various parameters reckoned to describe its profile in our times, has acquired many avatars over time, beginning with its primordial…
21 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Playtime of three players
The nation’s voluminous text, the Constitution, created in the wake of gaining political freedom from the nearly 150-year colonial rule is marked by various provisions aimed ostensibly at facilitating conditions to ensure…
20 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Urban ugly underbelly
Cities in the country are figuring in the news columns of dailies highlighting their state of cleanliness, as measured by over 30 parameters, and are also being ranked in their descending order…
19 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Trip to uncharted territory
The least accepted event in the life of human beings at large is the inevitable phenomenon of death. The land’s puranas and narratives in the epics are cited by scholars with a…
18 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Waning wisdom, human folly
Scholars delivering discourses before their captive audiences comprising mostly men and women on the wrong side of 60 years, a common sight nowadays in Mysuru, on topics sourced to the land’s ancient…
17 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Alive and kicking
Legends dating back to Roman and Greek civilisations, spanning 8th century BC to 5th century AD, which we get to read with scanty details of life that people of that distant past…
15 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Men-friendly measure
Children and their parents living with close relatives under a common roof with food prepared for all the inmates in a single kitchen leading harmoniously a tradition that has been guarded in…
14 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Cleaning the Augean Stables
The world view of the goings on in the largest (headcount-wise) Democracy globally and its people makes a fascinating read. If one takes the trouble of recording such views, expressed by both…
12 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Right to beliefs
We are in the age of claiming various rights, many of which are enshrined in the country’s Constitution, adopted on January 26, 1950 as the guide to carry on administration by the…
11 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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VIPs in abundance
India’s teeming millions, in the eyes of some keen observers abroad, rightly seem to be a complex mix of people marked by profiles in a range that cannot be described exhaustively. They…
10 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Model micro-financing
We are in the era of the country’s youth making a bold entry into the world of business. They have given a fancied name to their initiative. People who read reports in…
8 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Enemies of the State
In the context of expressing love for one’s motherland, one is prompted to cite an ancient verse dating back to the times of Thretayuga during which the episodes featured in the epic…
7 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Living longer
The life span of human beings granted as four score and twenty makes it to one hundred years. The fact that the rare instances of one among the population not only reaching…
6 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Teaching: Job or calling?
If one ponders about the difference between the terms job and calling, as applied to the teachers, the outcome may throw some light on the activity of teachers, many among whom may…
5 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Birds, beasts and Us
The goings on nature would surely continue to go on until eternity exactly as they have happened from the times as far back as one stretches one’s imagination, that time span being…
4 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Incivility at workplace
The words of wisdom namely, united we stand, divided we fall seem to have suffered a time warp. The target sections of the country’s population of an estimated 1.35 billion (135 crore)…
3 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Are we learning any lessons?
Committing mistakes in life is said to provide opportunities to acquire experience. Committing the same mistake, either due to faded memory of mistakes done on earlier occasions or disdainfully doesn’t pass scrutiny…
1 Sept 2018 · 2 min read
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Healthcare ahead of Medicare
In the days goneby, whenever persons of places marked by distance, both near and far, came face to face, it was customary to enquire about timely rains and status of crops (male-bele).…
31 Aug 2018 · 2 min read