The classical economist Robert Malthus (1766-1834), influential in the fields of political economy and demography, is credited with the theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and…
Academic institutions at different levels of learning earn name and fame based on factors as diverse as chalk and cheese. Nalanda University of several centuries vintage continues to be portrayed as the…
The advisory that one should take part in food in moderation (mitha) has very few takers. Eating for delight and not complying with the age-old diktat is a human frailty not observed…
India’s profile, and equally so the profile of its masses at large, is currently witnessing a change causing disenchantment to the seniors among the land’s citizenry. The subcontinent has been bestowed adoration…
Idioms and proverbs that express a gospel truth in a concise manner are usually author-less. The caption for today’s column is traced to a collection of proverbs by John Ray (1627-1705), British…
Ancient scriptures of the land, particularly the voluminous texts of Sanskrit verses, much of which script is not attributed to any identified author, have come to later successive generations as a legacy…
Reports in both dailies and television channels highlighting corruption and cases of functionaries in the administration found, read discovered, with wealth in cash and kind disproportionate to their known sources of earnings…
The land’s dailies of all hues may have run far short of their column space informing their readers about the cacophony generated by both netas and their chelas in a free-for-all game…
The land’s legendary monk Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) is regularly cited for his inspirational prescription to the youth in particular and the world in general with the words, “Arise, awake; stop not until…
A regular tendency or practice that is hard to give up, briefly defining the term habit, invariably either draws people close to one another or drives them apart. People of different countries…
The time-honoured distinction between urban and rural profiles of a given geographical area such as India appears to be getting hazy on many counts, except the lifestyle of their residents and also…
Indian democracy has tended to gravitate to a five-years-once expectations of its masses and disappointments as mirrored by the current goings on across the land, Karnataka figuring along with other States. The…
The land’s people are being reminded about the imperatives of keeping their living spaces spic and span. The message being blared on the small screen, using popular film personalities and also through…
The section of the land’s population, fortunate to be engaged on white-collar jobs, doesn’t seem to realise the plight of the aforementioned workforce bugged by serious threat to their health, short span…
The elected members of India’s Parliament, the supreme legislative body of the nation, are figuring in the media prominently for all bad reasons over the past two weeks. The daily routine of…
Figures of (a) number of towns and cities in the country and (b) number of residents in each of these steadily expanding territories and head counts have emerged as the most talked…
To decide which of a number of different jobs or tasks are most important or urgent and dealing with them first mandates to have a good grasp of the issues and knowing…
After allowing a few years to pass following the formal declaration proclaiming India as a sovereign democratic republic, the powers that be qualified the nation’s status by adding the term secular to…
The most-talked about book on the subject of time, unarguably, is the publication A Brief History of Time by British Physicist Stephen William Hawking (1942-2018). The book, first published in 1988, became…
A rule of the game of happiness stated as a philosophical expression in just four words, Don’t worry, be happy is attributed to the Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894-1969). Like…
The goings on in the country as well as across the world are marked by tough times to different degrees of dealing with them. The inter-country scenario is currently witnessing the top…
The public image of most persons whose names create a sense of awe, given their stellar role in India’s freedom movement, triggers thoughts on the dismal public image of the land’s current…
The hardships bugging the residents of cities and towns across the country, as they have emerged so far, are being talked about in different circles of citizens who have to bear themselves…
The world has witnessed many leaders featured in the chronicles of various countries, including India. Some of them have steadily climbed the rungs of life’s ladder to earn the distinction of being…
