Editorial
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Literacy in the country is reported to be increasing year after year. In one of the States, it is claimed to be 100 per cent, where virtually no one can be found…
19 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Food fads
Different generations, social groups, ethnic identities, diverse cultures and various regions are marked with food fads, portraying trends or craze in many forms of collective behaviour that develops over time, often changing…
18 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Common Minimum Programme
Pundits often take fascination to prescribe ground rules to the Government of the day to be adhered in order to provide good governance so that even the land’s last citizen feels happy,…
16 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Polarised populace
The land’s mass of people, currently estimated to be 1,400 million, with their social backgrounds, economic disparity, opinions hard to change, food habits, languages, education levels, health/illness status, awareness of their role…
15 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Grooming gen next
A number of issues deriving from the country’s time-honoured system have been debated in various circles, mostly in fits and jerks, leaving the system to endure itself like the Rock of Gibraltar…
14 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Health spend on hold
Life insurance, Health insurance, Motor vehicle insurance, General insurance and whatever, have turned from service to business in our times. The agencies offering one or the other of these assurances of bailing…
13 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Pesky pesticides
Not many may have read about the hundreds of Acts directly or indirectly related to administration, ostensibly to provide flawless governance of the land ensuring welfare of all sections of the country’s…
12 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Survival of small traders
Succession, the mammoth-sized computers, requiring space in large rooms, shrank to first pocket-size and then to hand-held calculators. It didn’t long for the desk top computers to be used in storage of…
11 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Stubble trouble
Multi-column headlines of many widely circulated dailies may or may not have choked the readers, taking in their strides reports of the country’s economic slowdown, abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution,…
9 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Friendly fraternity
Floods in some regions of the country caused by both untimely and more-than-normal rainfall for two consecutive years have taken their toll of devastation, washing away dwellings of lakhs of people, causing…
8 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Writing on the wall
Going by reports from different regions of the country, its 731 districts have witnessed contrasting features of this year’s South-West monsoon, which has drawn its curtain down to be followed by its…
7 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Learning to no avail
The nation is facing tough times, to describe its present economic, social and even political health, saying so metaphorically. The people in different strata of society across the country are up with…
6 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Land of Languages
Adults who speak different tongues and the growing children from the stage of a toddler to the school-going age, say three years, who learn to speak in one language or the other…
5 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Trailing traitors
Pages of the land’s long history reveal episodes of trusted persons betraying the trust vested in them by the rulers of their times enabling the unwelcome marauders making inroads into the territory…
4 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Food sector in FF mode
Nation’s economy, according to analysts of its health, has slowed down, a feature corroborated by global monitoring and rating agencies. Food sector, more in the realm of food processing industry than in…
2 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Swachh Bharat: A pipe dream
Pages of the land’s history, both recorded and passed on by word-of-mouth as it were, covering several centuries dating back to the era of Harappa-Mohenjodaro culture, or even the narratives in the…
31 Oct 2019 · 2 min read
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Heart for heritage
Mysuru is regarded as a heritage city in many circles, particularly in the camps of its intelligentsia, many of the fraternity with a penchant for knowing and glorifying its past from the…
30 Oct 2019 · 2 min read
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Toying with teachers
While privately managed schools are virtually dime a dozen in all cities, including Mysuru, in our times, one could count them on one’s fingers even as the Government of the erstwhile Princely…
28 Oct 2019 · 2 min read
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Tolerating tolerance
The sentiment attached to the expression Mother Earth seems to have got fractured in today’s society lost in the humdrum of life, mistakenly perceived as development, in the wake of unabated vandalising…
26 Oct 2019 · 2 min read
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Desiring before deserving
The idiom If wishes were horses, beggars would ride, traced to a collection of Scottish proverbs about 1628, seems to mistakenly divert attention to horses and beggars, masking the message that if…
25 Oct 2019 · 2 min read
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Acts that don’t act
Law-making in the land during ancient times and also in later periods, including present times makes a fascinating study. Both the monarchs of Kingdoms as well as Chieftans of yesteryears enjoying command…
24 Oct 2019 · 2 min read
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Unconcerned about concerns
Not many seem to have turned their attention to the issue of population control raised by the incumbent Prime Minister in his address on the occasion of this year’s Independence Day delivered…
23 Oct 2019 · 2 min read
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Dialogue with Divinity
Not believing in the existence of God as super power concerned with fates and actions of human beings (or even other life forms such as animals) and outright rejection of the belief…
21 Oct 2019 · 3 min read
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Empathy for the elderly
The air in the land is abuzz with people in various circles and varied background bestowing their views on a plethora of problems at which the successive administrations seem to be taking…
19 Oct 2019 · 2 min read