By T.J.S. George When we say or do things that we should not say or do, it’s bad manners. In this election season bad manners became the very norm of public life. How else can we explain an educated and experienced political leader saying that Narendra Modi, Uma Bharati and Sadhvi Ritambara are lower caste people…
Making Safety the First Priority
November 30, 2018By Dr. K. Javeen Nayeem, MD The recent ghastly bus accident in Mandya District which took a toll of thirty lives has jolted people’s sensibilities with its magnitude. But the question that arises here is whether it has even slightly succeeded in awakening the collective conscience of our politicians and bureaucrats who seem to have…
The Rotary Journey: To S.Korea and Japan – 3
November 29, 2018The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” —St. Augustine [Continued from yesterday] The following day, it was city tour of which I remember only two sites: one was the Palace of the old Korean King known as Gyeongbokgung Palace. (You can pronounce the name at your own…
An evening with Ravi Shankar Guruji
November 29, 2018By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Art of Living (AoL), an institution founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in 1981, has gone international and so when I got an invite from Shantha, the local convener of AoL, Mysuru, asking me to come for a “Sammilana” a meeting with the Guruji, I was intrigued. I did…
The Rotary Journey: To S. Korea and Japan —2
November 28, 2018The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”—St. Augustine [Continued from yesterday] This is my second visit to Seoul and Tokyo. Twenty-nine years ago in June 1989, I had been to Seoul along with the Rotary team to attend the Rotary International Conference. Earlier to this, the 24th…
Pet Talk
November 28, 2018In this week’s Pet Talk,Maneka speaks about bird’s nest, internal bleeding in birds and treating birds with leg paralysis By Maneka Gandhi My neighbours do not want me to look after the animals on our street. What do I do? You don’t wear clothes and eat according to what your neighbours want. So why should…
The Rotary Journey: To S. Korea and Japan – 1
November 27, 2018The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”. —St. Augustine For once, I have discovered that good news too could spread as fast as bad news! I had decided to keep my travel to Japan and Korea under wraps, but it seems the whole town knew of my…
Naxals and other pestilences
November 27, 2018By TJS George What exactly is a Maoist? Or a Naxalite? Or an Activist? Or an Anti-national? Or an Urban Naxal? (Is there a Village Naxal?) Obviously there is something bad about them, though we don’t know what. In the old days of binary values, if you were a Communist you were bad; if you…
Trust in God, not Religion
November 24, 2018Two days ago we got news that an American “adventurer and missionary” John Allen Chau was killed by members of Sentinelese tribe. This tribe inhabits the North Sentinel Island, one of the numerous islands that form the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Now, what is worrisome is, how did a fishing boat go unnoticed in this…
Making Exhibitions Safe
November 23, 2018By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Every now and then we see many exhibitions being held in our city, especially at the Maharaja’s College Grounds or at the Bharat Scouts and Guides Grounds with an occasional one arriving at the JSS Urban Haat complex too. These are a relatively recent trend and until this set…
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