By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Mysore This word ‘Siddavatam’ should have been spelt as ‘Siddhavatam.’ The word ‘Siddha’ means one who had originated from the Gods. ‘Vata’ is a tree where Hindus go and perform rituals to dead relatives. Thus it conforms to our ancient…
Musings on Leadership & Mission Shakti
March 29, 2019PM 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…
Discouraging Useless Research
March 29, 2019By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It has been reported that the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has recently issued an advisory to Central Universities in the country to discourage research scholars from selecting pointless topics as research subjects. It has done this in response to the concern expressed at a recent meeting in Delhi…
Pet Talk
March 27, 2019In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells why animals have to be spayed or neutered before adoption By Maneka Gandhi Is the killing of an insect the moral equivalent to killing of a bird or a mammal? All lives are the same and each being clings to life whether it is a fly or an…
Congress’ main enemy? Congress
March 26, 2019By T.J.S. George The Congress and the BJP have one thing in common — each is led by a Superman. But the BJP’s superman has a bunch of subalterns with him. That is a force multiplier. The Congress superman is a solitary sentinel. That is poor war tactics. Narendra Modi uses his fire power as…
If you are a Nationalist you will protect public property
March 25, 2019Recently 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….
Gaur Gopal Das: Monk who stole our hearts
March 24, 2019Among 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 Elusive Parking Meter!
March 22, 2019By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently it was announced that our city would be free from ‘Tiger Menace’ after our Traffic Police decided to wind up the arrangement of hiring tow trucks to pick up wrongly parked vehicles. The reason for this termination was that there were numerous complaints from the public that…
Pet Talk
March 20, 2019In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells about measures to be taken after Holi celebrations are over By Maneka Gandhi Is it safe to colour animals with powders on Holi? No, powdered colours are not safe for animals, not even the ones marketed as herbal and organic. The powdered colour can cause severe skin allergies…
Will this be the last battle?
March 19, 2019By T.J.S. George This is going to be the make or break election. It will either make the idea of India viable, or it will break it completely. The ruling dispensation knows that if they don’t win this time, they won’t win for a long time. And if they win, they’ll make sure they don’t…
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