Editorial
High on info, low on wisdom
The means of preserving literary works of ancient authors, many of them unknown to later generations, by memorising and word of mouth as it were along with etching on stone slabs and…
16 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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War of words Wars with weapons
We don’t get an insight from the pages of history or narratives in the land’s epics to infer that invariably a war of words precedes wars with weapons, although incidents of wars…
15 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Understanding money, misunderstanding food
Money and food are commodities together in a special league with the feature of a smaller section in the population having them in surplus quantities and the rest left craving to get…
14 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Service at doorstep
The monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a specified period (quarterly or yearly), commonly used to determine the economic performance of a whole country…
13 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Boundless bad behaviour
A verse sourced to the ancient widely translated Sanskrit text Panchatantra, a collection of stories featuring animals, dating back to about 300 BC and attributed to Vishnu Sharma reads Vidya Dadaathi Vinayam...…
11 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Expedient exodus
The expression sons of the soil, used by some speakers influencing societal outlook towards sections in the local population identified as outsiders is often meant to make an impressive impression on lay…
10 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Untying the Gordian Knots
Likening any complex or unsolvable problem used to be expressed metaphorically as the Gordian Knot by writers in English during the days gone by. The legend on dismantling an ‘impossible’ knot dates…
9 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Reviving reading culture
Not many will believe that evolving letters for writing is traced to Ethiopia, currently rated as a country with the lowest per capita income in the world. The practice of writing on…
8 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Where are we heading to?
The country and its present generation, in the august company of its preceding ageing fraternity, appear to be elated on hearing about the legacy handed down from the past, earning flattering global…
7 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Smartphone and Smarting
The Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), credited with patenting the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885 might have not imagined…
6 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Kannada: Past, Present, Posterity
The quote that every language is a temple in which the soul of its speakers is enshrined must serve as a diktat to all citizens of this multilingual land to not only…
4 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Quality of work and qualification
The quote Udyogam Purusha Lakshanam is believed by some to have come into existence during a past period in the country when some people chose to be idle, saying that God will…
3 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Boundless bad behaviour
A verse sourced to the ancient widely translated Sanskrit text Panchatantra, a collection of stories featuring animals, dating back to about 300 BC and attributed to Vishnu Sharma reads Vidya Dadaathi Vinayam...…
2 Nov 2017 · 2 min read
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Pretensions to Patriotism
Allowing the mind to ponder over the terms Earth in general and one’s country in particular alongside the term mother rings sentimental bells sending those who love both entities into raptures. The…
31 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Undoing Unemployment
While employing children for earning wages is unlawful according to the land’s law prohibiting child labour across the country, not landing a job bringing an income to sustain oneself in life for…
30 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Car-choked cities
The world owes the emergence of automobile on the road as it were in 1892 to Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (1834-1900), an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist of what is now Germany. The…
28 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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President’s prescription
Occasionally people are called upon to address the task of nation-building.The calls are voiced by the smae public speakers with the features of different platform and divers audiences across the country. Mercifully,…
27 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Burdensome babudom Carefree citizenry
Given the classical definition of democracy as a way of governing a country by its people, and for its people by an administration of its people, another term self-rule is popularly used…
26 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Motherland’s million minorities
Craving for recognition by certain sections in the land’s mass of an estimated 135 crore people as minorities has caught up with yet another section in a well-marked sect. The demand by…
25 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Pursuit of plunder
Mysuru is ablaze for a public cause. The notable feature of the scene that emerged this week on the road stretch from Kalamandira to the corner a few yards after the entrance…
24 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Mysuru: Hope, Despair, Hope
The city’s literati, given to the habit of writing in their preferred columns of this daily, have been expressing a hope on Mysuru not going the Bengaluru way. The State’s capital, portrayed…
23 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Dignity, Decency for Domestic Help
The Union Labour Ministry on Monday disclosed the broad contents of the policy to formalise the right of domestic workers to equal and minimum wages, social security cover, skill development programme and…
21 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Spiritual sections in Secular society
Although food that we consume at home in well-marked sessions during the day, everyday, and at places outside our homes on various occasions is to primarily assuage hunger, one cannot but agree…
19 Oct 2017 · 2 min read
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Dialogue with Diet
Perhaps there is no other subject that can match food when it comes to engaging oneself in talking or thinking or enjoying or suffering or grieving either before or after two most…
18 Oct 2017 · 2 min read