Madikeri Private Bus Stand can be transformed into Field Marshal Square on the lines of Trafalgar Square Rainfall, mist and fog in Kodagu are not occasional. Every year it rains and even if there is a change in weather pattern, it rains for sure. And this is the reason for verdant greenery all over Kodagu…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Picking up the thread of narration from what I had written last Friday about popularising the sport of competition shooting in our schools and colleges, I would like to take you on a trip back in time to an incident from my life that happened exactly fifty years ago…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Money, money, money… can money buy one all the happiness of the world? As a famous monk in his sermon told, “The poorest man on this earth is the one who has only money and nothing else” but in spite of this we continue to chase Lakshmi [Goddess…
The other side of Sir MV’s clarion call “Industrialise or Perish’ is Pratham’s call “Educate Children or Perish”. Every child. Specially in government schools When Ashvini Ranjan, Bhamy Shenoy and Anil Kothari walked into my office recently, I thought they had come to ask for donation for Pratham, the NGO dedicated to educating children in…
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells how chickens are raised, what are the benefits of keeping them, their life span and more. By Maneka Gandhi I live just outside the city in a big farm. I would like to keep chickens. What are the benefits of keeping chickens? Chickens make fun pets. They are…
By T.J.S. George What’s happening to our country? A huge and diverse land of 135 million people, 29 states and 22 scheduled languages, yet we are caught in a single obsession — religion. All discussions, all decisions, all policies are shaped by religion. Sabarimala is on the edge of civil war. “Hindus are losing their…
Come November, two controversies will always crop up — Tipu Jayanti and bursting fire crackers. And both reflect lack of insensitivity to fellow citizens. In the case of Tipu Jayanti, we wonder if this coalition government would have celebrated the Jayanti had Tipu Sultan done in Mandya what he did in Kodagu? Tipu Jayanti is…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent report in SOM that a sports complex built by the MUDA at great cost at Vijayanagar in our city has been lying idle and unused for the last eight years makes very sad reading by itself. But the part that is sadder still is the information that…
By T.J.S. George Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has the advantage of knowing that he is always right. Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel has taken his own time to learn that. Which is Patel’s problem. He started out as Jaitley’s handpicked man to replace Raghuram Rajan who simply had to go as Arvind Panagariya had to…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Friends, today is a sad day for me ! I should have been celebrating over the completion of thirteen years of my writing this column. But here I am, feeling sad, while contemplating over where we stand as a nation ! To remain on track of what I had…
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