It’s a magical time in Karnataka again. We’re talking about ‘black magic.’ Our Chief Minister Siddaramaiah may have passed a watered-down Anti-Superstition Bill. Maybe he should try again for a more implementable one, for his Deputy says it’s threatening their Government. Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar stated on Thursday that political opponents are performing black…
PM Modi wants to help but… Wealth we produce goes to our Bank. Where does the waste we produce go? It goes to the landfill in different parts of our city. The biggest one is at Sewage Farm, Vidyaranyapuram, Mysuru South, occupying 14 acres and it is so big beforelong it might compete with the…
I am at a loss to begin the narration about a 50th marriage anniversary celebration of a couple, I know for years, that I attended yesterday at a local hotel. Indeed, it was an intimate, affable and a jovial occasion for about hundred-plus people of a mixed age group. Most of them were of the…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayaeem, MD Just a few days ago, we all read in our newspapers a very disturbing report about a young boy, who was preparing to crack the NEET examination, to enter medical college, and who walked away from the grind, unable to bear the pressure anymore. Yes, the nineteen-year-old boy, whose…
This morning, ‘The Hindu’ newspaper reported that the Government owes the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel in Mysuru Rs. 80 lakh in pending bills. The confusion is: Which Government will foot the bill — the Centre or the State? We are sure the hotel will get its money eventually, but when? It’s already been one year….
The Pre-University and SSLC results are out, and as expected, there is happiness, disappointment, grief and, unfortunately, quite a few deaths — two students in Mandya district, both just 15 years old, committed suicide. While one student ended his life for failing an SSLC exam, the other, a girl, committed suicide assuming she had failed…
Surprises, pleasant or unpleasant, never cease to happen in everybody’s life. Recently, I had a pleasant surprise when the Blue Dart courier delivered two books from a friend in New York, M.P. Prabhakaran. Many years ago I had written about this old journalist-friend of mine first acquainted in Mumbai where we were journalists though working…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD These days we find that almost all our cities have changed a lot from what they were until just a generation ago, with more and more people taking to congregating and eating late into the nights. But the restrictions and restraints that used to operate on the activities of…
Of our bondage to vagaries of our mind You cannot always be a hero, but you can always be a human being. —Anon It is well-known to all educated people, specially students of Political Science, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Moral corruption included. Contrarily, absolute power also enables the powerful to repay…
Even as Prajwal’s sex scandal is still in the news, allegations of molestation are coming in against West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose. Politically motivated or not, sex and power have always gone hand in hand. Men in power control their environment. Powerful men set the agenda of nations. But for some reason, many of…
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