An elected representative of people in the present Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, with a name for his outspoken manner of expressing his views on some sensitive issues for public consumption, has just…
The term pay, figuring in the caption to this column, refers to the pay packet and is used in its noun form. The term performance connotes work done by the fraternity in…
Whatever is said in order to express one’s opinion on others, based either on experience or understanding or even misunderstanding (which happens more often), seems to benefit or suffer in importance depending…
The nation’s masses, while hearing the public speeches during the campaigns by contestants in the elections to both the country’s Parliament and Legislative Assemblies of many States that were conducted in 2014…
Mood, being commonly understood as state of the mind, takes one from one state of mind to another, not always in a desirable change-over. If that change manifests itself as anger, the…
Given the goings on around the country, as is being faithfully reported by the land’s print media, including the dailies of the State, the copy-writing fraternity at the editorial desk have reached…
Thanks to various factors impacting interpersonal relationships in our times, people at large seem to be bestowing low premium to be pleasant towards others in word, deed and thought —take your pick.…
The time-honoured feature of routinely subjecting children to the not-much-liked schooling, a practice dating back to times lost in antiquity, has got morphed to mean scoring high marks first and later battling…
The caption of today’s column owes it to the renowned British novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817), best known for her social commentary in novels including Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. About…
In his play Merchant of Venice, the Bard wrote about the heartless money-lender saying he was more sinned against than sinning, virtually masking the lender’s villainous image. Given the ongoing cacophony around…
During the colonial rule of India, the British authorities sent many activists taking part in the countrywide agitation demanding freedom to Andaman on a one-way trip to be housed in the dreaded…
The opening puzzle posed to three contestants five days a week in the Kannada quiz programme telecast in the evening by DD channel invariably features a Kannada idiom. The contestants, after the…
The time-honoured fable of The Rabbit and The Tortoise, narrating the challenge posed by the fast-running rabbit to the slow-moving tortoise may have also witnessed a time-warp given its rare occasions on…
The scope of this column, inspired by the equation E=mc2 familiar to the knowledgeable sections of literati as the formula attributed to the famed Physicist Albert Einstein propounding his theory of special…
In a recently introduced practice in industries and large business establishments employing a virtual army of employees in some countries of the western world as well as in India, particularly multinational companies…
Issues related to under-garments have begun to be featured in column-space of many dailies obviously shedding the factors of privacy of wearers of the concealed attire and shyness on the part of…
Driven by the highly laudable goal of Universal Healthcare, aimed at covering 500 million people of the nation, Ayushman Bharath (also known as Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Swasthya Suraksha Abhiyan), approved by the…
A comparatively new breed of business players namely Realtors have arrived on the national scene, their activity presently confined to urban spaces. The term refers to a person who acts as an…
Not a single guest of honour called upon to speak for a couple of minutes before a full-house of audience comprising people across all age groups and socio-economic background during the programme…
Out of the multitude of pre-occupations of the land’s people at large and their periodically elected representatives vying for (a) Tickets for contesting in the polls to the various bodies of law-making…
The issue of waiving the loans taken by the farming fraternity of Karnataka during the past few years, lingering on-and-off for several months since the time of campaigning by some political parties…
Public image of the working style of administration in government as well as civil service bureaucracy, being what it is, doesn’t need elaboration, particularly in the backdrop of the continually rising headcount…
Family, the unit of society, used to be defined and described by teachers in primary schools as comprising children, their parents, grand-parents, uncles, aunts and even cousins which is bound to make…
The air in the land is dense with whoever counts in whichever Cabinet of Ministers, both Central and States, including Karnataka, issuing statements, for public consumption as it were, that their priority…
