In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka talks about feeding schedule for dogs and importance of getting dogs sterilised By Maneka Gandhi How many times a day should I feed my dog for its healthy development? Most people recommend feeding dog twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. I prefer three…
By T.J.S. GEORGE What a curse democracy has become. It truly is bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. With no stops. Look at the cabinet circus in Karnataka. Look at Devendra Phadnavis fighting ally-turned-enemy Shiv Sena. Look at Yogi Adityanath still struggling to figure out whether governance is animal or vegetable….
The nataka in Karnataka is never-ending. With BJP sending their folk to Gurugram and a few Congress MLAs and independent MLAs hiding out in Mumbai, the political nataka is playing out like a Shakespearean play — there are dubious characters and shrewd manipulators. The only difference being, in a Shakespearean play the audience is enjoying…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem From Udaipur which was our base, a day long excursion took my family and me to the fortress town of Chittorgarh, about a hundred-and-twenty kilometres North-East of it. Chittor was once the capital of the Mewar rulers who after the advent of field artillery shifted their base to Udaipur which…
By T.J.S. George Two factors are preventing the Sabarimala conundrum from moving towards a solution — and the self-promoting politics of BJP-RSS forces are too unimportant to be one of them. It’s true that Hindutva extremists’ political obstructionism drew attention in the early days through violence. Although their campaign was in the name of tradition,…
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka gives tips on how to help migratory birds and how to safely discourage a monkey By Maneka Gandhi Should elephants be domesticated? The question is wrongly framed because elephants cannot be domesticated. So, instead: Can elephants be domesticated? Domesticated means that elephants have lost all wild instincts and are…
By Prof. A.V. Narasimhamurthy Makara Sankranti also called ‘Uttarayana Punyakala’ is an important festival celebrated by Hindus. It is based on astronomical calculations in theory and is celebrated with unique practices. Beginning from ‘Makara Raashi’, the Sun travels (it is earth that rotates, Sun is a static star) from South to North. According to ancient…
On January 2nd in the dark of the night two women dressed in black waited atop a hill to enter a restricted area. They waited for the right time to make a break for it. And just before dawn, they sneaked in with surgical precision and next day it was news ! No, we are…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my article of last Friday I said that Udaipur and Mysuru are similar because they are both cities of Lakes and Palaces. I would like to add here that they strike me as being similar for another reason. Amid the many Palaces that they have, they both also…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC I always had a problem with my shoe laces. Such an embarrassment. I have tripped several times too. But when I read this delightful article, penned by Prakash Iyer, I could not but put it across to SOM readers to read and enjoy: The morning walk with the…
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