Liking one’s work or others, according to some thinkers, is no big deal if love pervades the relationship. Understanding the phenomenon of love properly (wisely) is not everybody’s cup of tea. The…
Neither the clock can be put back nor history of a country be changed. The issue of caste, unique to the land and its people, discussed and debated in a multitude of…
The land and its people, according to whatever we get to read in the pages of their history spanning several centuries, have weathered tough times under the rule of both indigenous monarchs…
According to the English lexicon, the verb ‘to flex’ essentially has one of two meanings. It can mean to show-off, to gloat, or to boast, which is the most popular definition of…
The connect between walking and wisdom is likely to be questioned, given the wide meaning accepted for the latter term by the cognoscenti. To prepare the ground for the narrative in this…
Complaining about apathy on the part of functionaries in administration may or may not trigger action in response, if at all. Criticising, often in unsavoury language to express disagreement with others, targeting…
Till about a few decades ago, although fashions were not bestowed much attention by people at large, excepting the affluent sections of society, called high society and choice of fabrics was nowhere…
Feeling comfortable, whether one lives in a city or a village in the country, is a state of mind to some extent and also a sense of reality to another extent. We…
Even as different languages of the land are witnessing their protagonist, both authors of repute and outfits pursuing the cause of languages of their respective regions through hi-decibel sloganeering, public speakers of…
The expression grin and bear it is attributed to a Hungarian pianist George Lichtenstein (1823-1893). The message in the expression is loud and clear: “You accept a different or unpleasant situation without…
Spiritually driven philosophers of yore in our land have bequeathed to its people of all later generations words of wisdom, mostly laying down the rules of life to achieve a sense of…
Literacy in India has been officially declared as 74 per cent, rising from 18 per cent at the time of the country coming under self-rule. Low literacy rate, compared to world average…
No one among the literati, in the correct sense of the term literate is likely not to have read about love or seen lovers in action as they appear on the big…
A newly married couple, with an unmistakable look of an affluent background and also well-heeled, arrive at a luxurious resort at a hill station. While showing the deluxe room to the couple…
The three pillars of Democracy, namely (a) Legislature, (b) Executive and (c) Judiciary standing in a classical alignment are being exposed to the nation’s citizenry by the fourth pillar, namely Media. The…
The relationship between a body and the forces acting upon it as well as its motion in response to those forces are known to students of Physics as Newton’s Laws of Motion…
While the earthlings have begun to toy with plans of inhabiting space on celestial bodies in the solar system and even hoping to succeed sooner or later, after first firing rockets into…
Before enlarging on the topic of this column, what is meant by the terms ‘they’ and ‘us’ is made clear at the outset. The growing number of vote-seekers, salivating with dreams of…
Reading about the land’s people and their life both as narrated in ancient scripts as well as historical records, particularly references to their deeds of superhuman proportions, it generates a sense of…
Old people used to be considered as oldies in days gone by until not too long ago, not without a hint of derogatory sense attached to them and the now-not-much-in-use term. They…
The nation’s economic health and bodily health of its population are usually assessed and rated in a disjointed approach in various circles and by different agencies although they mutually impact each other.…
Although the issues of education in the current scenario across the nation are being raked by public speakers of standing in society in a wide range, from being taken by people at…
Rated as the loftiest Veda-derived thought is the message conveyed in the lines of Verses included in the sixth chapter of Mahopanishat. The lines translate to: ”One is a relative, the other…
The land’s epics feature narratives about air travel during prehistoric times. More of believe-it-or-not reference made to flying from place to place separated by long distances on airborne vehicles always with room…
