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Uninformed and Unconcerned
The simplest advisory ‘Eat to live, don’t live to eat,’ that is not heard often nowadays, cannot be surpassed for its power of wisdom guiding one to go on a journey of…
20 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Wonder world of teachers
Sayings such as ‘Home is the first school for the child’ and ‘Mother is the child’s first teacher’ have become cliché in our times. The profile of the typical Indian home, as…
19 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Patanjali’s Plight
A law attributed to some unknown wit says that “No two watches agree; if they agree, they are not watches (in real terms).” One cannot be faulted for extending the same logic…
18 Jul 2017 · 3 min read
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Reports Vs Reality
Thanks to advances in communication technology, we read or hear about events happening 24x7 (and also not happening in reality) anywhere on earth instantly, often in real time, as claimed by the…
17 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Saving this, saving that
Administration during the reign of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, spanning the first half of the last century, has been extolled in all quarters, relating to the many pro-people measures credited to the king…
15 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Encouraging enterprise
The elderly in the family, particularly those found with age-matching physical fitness and having lived a life of fulfilment in Mysuru of years gone-by, could be heard reminding the young members of…
14 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Rights Vs Responsibilities
The land’s leading lights of a distant past have left a legacy of copious texts in many languages as well as in many forms such as poems, lines of wisdom (Subhashita), anecdotes,…
13 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Thought for food
Noted oil chemist, food scientist, nutritionist and food historian, all rolled into one, Dr. K.T. Achaya (1923-2002) in his well-researched work titled Indian Food: A Historical Companion (Oxford University Press 1994), expedited…
12 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Grooming gen next
The land’s youth used to be exhorted until recently by public speakers, including those holding high posts in government and leading lights in academia, to cultivate scientific temperament and outlook. It is…
11 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Miles to go...
Nation’s first Prime Minister is quoted on various occasions having made an emotional statement at the moment of its freedom from colonial rule seven decades ago. “While the world sleeps India awakes…
10 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Big screen in big trouble
History of money makes fascinating read. Going by its cosmic dance as it were in modern times, one is prompted to imagine that people would communicate among themselves free from hanky-panky deals…
8 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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GHOST: Manifesting itself as GST
What is in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote William Shakespeare (1564-1616) in his famous play Romeo and Juliet. The field…
7 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Mangalyam Thanthu...
Going by the media reports of heightened frequency and growing number of campaigns by both government departments and voluntary groups, particularly in Karnataka, to create awareness in people at large about eschewing…
6 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Surprising survival
The lyricist who scripted the lines of a song for the popular movie Pyaasa a few decades ago, sounding philosophical, conveyed the message that while people at large keenly looked forward to…
5 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Managing mental illness
Ironically though, budgetary provision by the land’s successive governments for addressing issues of healthcare continues to be meagre while the country hosts more people with life-threatening afflictions such as cancer and malaria…
4 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Debt-driven deaths
The term average is made to be understood a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of numbers, while there is very little about average being typical value of…
3 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Conning citizens by excess cess
All sorts of goods offered in attractive packages for sale in the land used to display (in small print) until not too long ago the expression amounting to an amount in addition…
1 Jul 2017 · 2 min read
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Quality of Life-Smart City combo
We have heard on many occasions quoting Gandhiji who remarked that the (erstwhile) Princely State of Mysore during the rule of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar was Ramarajya, meaning the State hosted a totally…
30 Jun 2017 · 2 min read
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To eat or not to eat
Government is on safe track as long as its actions conform to the country’s Constitution framework. The amendments made during the many governments of the land so far to its text reflect…
29 Jun 2017 · 2 min read
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Cash comes cascading to cities
Having been launched in June 2015, the Smart City mission to achieve a makeover of 100 cities to start with, across the country by the Union Government has already written its own…
28 Jun 2017 · 2 min read
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Counting trees, missing woods
Numbers, the toy with which pundits, particularly mathematicians, call them more appropriately ganithashastrajnas, have revelled themselves for centuries since vedic times believed to be of more than 50 centuries vintage, have caught…
27 Jun 2017 · 2 min read
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Harnessing human resources
The nation’s youth are being talked about in circles of both the informed and the uninformed with diverse outlook and understanding. They account for half the land’s total population yearning for a…
26 Jun 2017 · 2 min read
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Reining in rampaging road shows
Pundits pursuing issues relating to governments functioning in countries following principles of democracy have favoured a set of privileges, rights in particular, of which the freedom to dissent seems to have drawn…
24 Jun 2017 · 2 min read
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Dealing with bursting bubble
The emergence of computers that function based on the now-well-known binary number comprising the numericals 0 and 1, enabling representation of any number or rows of symbols as a binary numeric, closely…
23 Jun 2017 · 2 min read