Editorial
Conduit for corrupt
The scale of corruption as well as the wealth that the corrupt in the country and elsewhere command seem to have sullied the image of money, the term believed to originate from…
17 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Insight into infrastructure
The earth’s biggest infrastructure is the earth itself, better say herself given the exalted position of mother in common parlance. In typical Indian families, mother has all the qualifications to be called…
16 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Encroachment enterprise
Observing the growing population with unalloyed concern, Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), a British demographer and political economist, opined that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth…
14 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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On water trail
Ancient scholars have written copiously on the intimate connect between water and life of all living forms, particularly in the case of human beings, animals and plants. In a verse taken from…
13 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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India(ns) in global space
Given the complex mix of identity that the currently estimated population of 140 crore people come under their social, economic, ethnic, linguistic and so on, the term diversity to portray that mix…
12 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Bribe-free Bharat
Policy statements such as open defecation-free Bharat have tended to sound like slogans that not only the top brass in administration but also leaders of all hues addressing their captive audiences as…
11 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Business of doing business
Earning a steady income and ease of doing business are the watchwords of the world of players who are identified as entrepreneurs. Institutes of Managements (IIMs) and those training aspirants for learning…
10 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Authorities and Aam Aadmi
Only 19 countries in the world are full democracies at present, according to a report sourced to the Intelligence Unit of The Economist, an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper, founded by James Wilson…
9 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Reining in rural poverty
Story-tellers of yesteryears, in engaging the minds of children often began their narratives with the expression “once upon a time there lived a poor brahmin (bada brahmana)…” virtually clouding the young minds…
7 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Food-faith-region connect
The expression unity in diversity has been heard ad nauseam by the land’s urban literati as public speakers of all hues take fascination to add a bit of glory to the country’s…
6 Dec 2019 · 3 min read
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Praise and Criticism
To dissent and criticise the actions of the Government with disdain being the prerogative of the Opposition in the elected legislative bodies from the nation’s Parliament down to Gram Panchayats as well…
5 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Advertise and allure
Awareness-driven awakening and advertisement- driven allurement by various Departments of Government and manufacturing sector players offering a wide variety of consumer goods respectively bring home response from the target sections among the…
4 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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From the cradle to the grave
Life’s journey from the moment of birth to that of departing is marked by ups and downs in a mixed bag of fortunes and misfortunes. The columns of the land’s dailies carrying…
3 Dec 2019 · 3 min read
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Dilution of human capital
All said and done, pages of history are replete with the script of chroniclers of their times portraying the life-related happenings as they perceived and drew their inferences, thought by pundits as…
2 Dec 2019 · 2 min read
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Regress outpaces progress
Speakers of all hues, including the country’s notorious vote-mongers parroting the views of pundits often irrelevant to the occasion, taking fascination to praise the land’s ancient people for their creative work in…
30 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Attire and Administration
The top brass in the Government of one of the States in the country prescribed, may be after pondering among themselves for days over the societal ethos relating to people’s attire, dress…
29 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Enlightening Engineers
Archaeologists, architects and practising civil engineers in the country either coming out in the open on a common platform or interacting on issues that are within their respective ambit for the cause…
28 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Assaults on aam aadmi glorified
Vulnerability to assaults by alien marauders of people hosted by the region that used to be described as Indian sub-continent until its some parts were bestowed distinct identity as countries namely Burma…
27 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Crying in wilderness
Flooding of large areas of agricultural lands with standing crops and plantations in Malnad regions of Karnataka, particularly Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan, inundating of urban as well as rural living spaces in…
26 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Appreciation and apathy
Patting one’s own back and appreciating good work of others without hint of doing it superficially result in different kinds of reactions, the first kind dismissed as the feature of people described…
25 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Hullabaloo over security
What is secure and what is insecure about people and places in the land can be debated both formally and informally, subjectively and objectively, knowledgeably and ignorantly, emotionally and calmly depending on…
23 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Nation’s health in poor health
The country’s affluent sections have no cause for complaining about the prohibitive costs of drugs as well as hospital tariffs, while these sections are reportedly less than two per cent of the…
22 Nov 2019 · 3 min read
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Media and Masses
Unarguably the only human pursuit that must comply with the factor of punctuality is production of dailies in various languages of the land. Not all readers are aware of the sleepless nights…
21 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Democracy’s Destiny
Motivational Speaker and author Paul Scanlon (born: 1957) has observed, citing research finding, that as many as 80 per cent of people are unhappy at work, adding that a bigger problem than…
20 Nov 2019 · 2 min read