Successive governments have been proclaiming the country’s all round progress. Some of them also have been claiming that the country has made rapid progress even as the voices in the respective oppositions…
In his famous book Essay on the Principle of Population, the British scholar Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) articulated his views regarding human population saying, “An increase in a nation’s food production improved…
Next week witnesses India’s biggest festival, Deepavali, the annual event engaging, unarguably, the greatest number of revellers across the land for any festival celebrated with fervour — louder the celebration, deeper the…
The term ‘3 Rs’ has been understood for long to represent the three skills reading, writing and arithmetic regarded as the fundamentals of education. Given the ubiquitous low rating bestowed upon the…
Good governance has been made out to be totally in the lap of governments, forgetting the extent to which the masses are indulging in various acts placing hurdles in government’s path. The…
Barring the two well-known facts dating back to several centuries that Adi Shankara, the proponent of Advaitha philosophy, passed away at a very early age and Saint Ramanujacharya, credited with Vishistadvaitha philosophy,…
Remembering the dates relating to wars fought among the rulers of various kingdoms across the undivided sub-continent and also those in which aliens were on the other side, particularly Mughal’s and the…
Human habitation of planet earth, chemically determined to be of 4,500 crore years vintage, dates back to a mere two lakh years, according to knowledgeable sources among anthropologists. Also, the early human…
If wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. An English language proverb, first recorded about 1628 in a collection, namely “If wishes were…
Every alternate week, if not day, the nation’s people are informed through all forms of media that the country is heading towards prosperity in the years ahead. The sources in the administration…
Looking for supply of materials from other countries to meet the major needs of the land’s steadily expanding masses, particularly food grains, takes us back to the mid-60s when the physically diminutive…
The poet wrote that love is a many splendoured thing. Going by the diverse aspects of food as visualised by the knowledgeable and the rest who are just happy after savouring their…
Temples, particularly the shrines of centuries vintage, built by anonymous munis and renowned thinkers credited with philosophical works marked by spiritual ideologies that have endured to this day on the banks of…
Authorities at different levels figure occasionally in media reports carrying out exercises that can gladden the citizens at large. That periodic act is rarely reported upon on the front pages of dailies,…
Issues relating to the factor of caste, as commonly talked about in public domain across the country have got churned to a point of insanity in our times. The other factor, namely…
Whether we relish it or not, the generation preceding ours leaves behind a legacy, which in turn the subsequent generation bequeaths. Cash and immovable property are welcome, but not a load of…
Moulding the young and growing members in a family, beginning even before the teenage stage, into a versatile adult, strong both physically and mentally, to take on the challenges of life, to…
The nature, number, volume and, last but not the least, the unbearable intensity of odour of all the residue generated by human beings and accumulating at the end of every day has…
A classic example of a specimen who is tolerated by his pals without giving the faintest hint of being accepted is the club-bore (with 100 per cent attendance). If the honourable member…
In the narrative “The Book of Fables and Folk Stories” by Horace E. Scudder ((1838-1902), an American man of letters, an episode of human generosity resulting in a none-too-comfortable situation is presented.…
Poets, essayists and novelists, granting their rich vocabulary in the language of their proficiency and a deep desire to express their thoughts as well as life’s experiences deserve to be thanked by…
The appearance or emergence of Planet Earth in the boundless universe, compared to a mere dust particle for its relative volume has been chemically determined to have taken place about 4.5 billion…
Similar to voices being heard from all sorts of circles, marked by mutually rivalling concerns, relating to the major afflictions bugging the land’s masses, particularly the uninformed rustic population, we also read…
Old-timers in Mysuru can recollect the days goneby when a pass in the then intermediate class public examination was considered proper stage in life to opt for choosing courses to be pursued…
