Flourishing fakes, frauds
Consumers of their needs in daily life find themselves in the present world of fakes and frauds. The media, with the hawk’s eye of its army of reporters, is doing excellent job…


Consumers of their needs in daily life find themselves in the present world of fakes and frauds. The media, with the hawk’s eye of its army of reporters, is doing excellent job…
An insight into the life of this ancient land’s people, as it has changed from the age of mantras dating back to the times when the four Vedas emerged to the present…
The most fascinating feature of talent is that it is latent (a re-arranged spelling for the often untapped asset of individuals), thirsting to blossom under favourable conditions in society. Early discovery of…
Mysuru has not only shed its all-too-familiar name Mysore but also acquired identity as the much-avowed heritage city as well as the cultural capital of Karnataka. Nearly 40 products in the range…
Pondering over the goings on in public spaces across the country witnessing turmoil pitching the administration at all levels from local to national and the land’s people, senior citizens who have memories…
Speaking or writing about the many aspects of the land and its people in times of a distant past with expressions of glorification using superlative adjectives is both a practice and a…
The number of languages in use for communicating and other purposes such as writing globally is said to be more than 8,000. In India, their number is placed at more than 1,600.…
A few features of the land and its masses are flashed regularly in the columns of dailies of all hues in various languages. Two such features, namely poverty and corruption, both of…
Scholars revel in scripting their literary works. Languages, the vehicle for their works, many-splendored until the land’s politicos indulged in dividing the masses by instigating various linguistic groups to erupt in the…
Fast foods, fast automobiles, fast life, fast this, fast that and also fast communication by data transformation are the order of the day. Even Mysuru is witnessing its residents indulging in and…
Mysuru city, identified by its earlier name Mysore that endured for more than a century, has witnessed a change not only in its name but also its profile, a change that is…
God has been perceived by the land’s people for long as a divine force protecting the good-natured and punishing the other kind. Scholars spiritually-oriented also have a fascination during their discourses to…
Governments, both at the Centre and in the States are in a state of overdrive passing Laws and scripting Acts with the laudable aim of reining in the undisciplined mass of 130-plus…
Countries across the world used to be classified into developed and underdeveloped until a few years ago, in the circles of the United Nations. In line with the practice of avoiding terminology…
The Bard of Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare wrote the words in italics chosen for the caption of today’s column, while presenting the character Shylock, the uncompromising money-lender in Merchant of Venice. Demanding…
Kings of all hues as well as chieftains of comparatively smaller territories than kingdoms in times of both distant past and lot later, whose rule and tyranny respectively have been mentioned by…
Universities in the marked set of countries outside India, particularly the countries of Europe and Americas, are in a virtual competition to admit students based on their credentials, both academic and extra-curricular.…
The classic tag to music, literary works, attire and so on originating in different regions of the country represents the refined tastes of a bygone generation. Classical music used to be music…
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of companies in India mandates the corporate sector to give something back to the society on the ideology that companies take resources in the form of raw materials,…
Health buffs, whose presence in society nowadays is marked by only the talks they deliver before mostly their captive audiences on the steadily expanding health issues and also articles some among them…
Days of describing India as an agrarian economy are coming to an end at an unprecedented pace year on year. Given the steadily declining share of the land’s industry sector to its…
An often heard slogan, bordering on tokenism, from the usual flock of public speakers of all hues, mostly on poll eve, is about inclusive society, meaning zero or near-zero gap between the…
Readers of newspapers may have felt a sense of boredom or saturation or even confusion after reading whatever has appeared in print about two landmark moves taken by the incumbent government at…
From the times of a distant past, when roads, meant mainly for walkers alongside those commuting in animal-drawn carts, were narrow and dwellings were roomy, we have reached a point of laying…