This morning, I got a surprise WhatsApp message about Tejasvi Surya, the 28-year-old advocate and the surprise candidate from BJP to contest the Bengaluru South Parliamentary Constituency. The WhatsApp was a pictorial news item published in the Indian Express dated 21.7.1988 from Belgaum. The news item is produced here at the 5th column bottom and…
Exercise restraint and remove such material which is undesirable… act responsibly as is expected from them and accordingly decide what should or should not be published as wild and scandalous allegations undermine and irreparably damage the reputation and negate independence of the judiciary. — Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Arun Mishra, while passing order on…
Reading books has many advantages to those who have no friends and those who have problem getting sleep. As for me, I have friends and no problem sleeping the moment I hit the sack, exceptions apart. All the same, I continue my old habit of reading books. After all, old habits die hard, it is…
Plato the Greek Philosopher had said that an unexamined life is not worth living. I am unable to get the sense of this precept. Whose life? If it is my own life, life of each individual, how to examine it? What are the standards and parameters? Does it also mean introspection? Further, does it mean…
Will Modi redeem the pledge Nehru promised we the people of India in 1947? Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting our city Mysuru tomorrow as part of his roller-coaster Parliamentary election campaign and will address the citizens of this royal and cultural city of Karnataka at the same venue where he addressed us in 2014…
If Narendra Modi makes a triumphant return to power as the unquestioned leader of the BJP, let me speculate, there are many possibilities for the future of India — the Constitution will be amended to fix the problem of Jammu & Kashmir once and for all. This, I think, will affirm the genuine Secular character…
PM Modi, Dronacharya for Arjunas of DRDO Last Wednesday evening, I had a special request from industrialist and Wellness Guru Dr. B.R. Pai of Vijay Wires to attend a lecture and workshop titled “Leadership 4.0” by Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director of IIM, Kozhikode, Kerala. Having heard another Management Guru Gaur Gopal Das, only a few…
Recently when I read a report about the famed Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry my thoughts went rambling about our country getting independence after Muslim and British rule of over a 1,000 years. The suffering and denials of our people and then the euphoria of getting freedom, though at the cost of the division of the country….
Among the lives on this planet earth, the human life seems to be the most difficult, most complex. No creature other than human creature needs support of a motivation speaker and a life coach, like Gaur Gopal Das, to make human life less difficult and free of all complexities! Of course, the name and fame…
The Sabarimala Temple of the presiding deity Swamy Ayyappa, which is under a controversy following a Supreme Court order to allow women of all ages to enter the temple and offer prayers, was opened yesterday (Monday) for the annual temple festival being held for 10 days. The festival will end on Mar. 21. The temple…
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