Time-honoured channel of reaching the literati with information they seek and desire that the world knows as media, particularly dailies seems to have donned a new avatar, that is also familiar to a growing number of people embracing digital technology as social media. Chip-based devices are taking birth with versatile features being embedded in them…

Both the citizens of the land and the civil servants of the executive wing in administration are required to comply with the stipulations stated in the Constitution as well as the Acts that spell the rules and regulations enacted as amendments in order to enable the diaspora to live orderly life, particularly in a democratic…

Despite discord in ideologies and agendas, forming the so-called coalition Governments, often inviting the adjective unholy, by various otherwise warring political parties both at the Centre and in the States as well as Union Territories seems to be the order of our times, more as a norm than exception, all for making merry with power…

Freedom of Speech and freedom of the Press are different kettles of fish, the major and the most commonly noticed difference being the latter has a regulator in the body Press Council of India while the former is more glorified as a Constitutional provision than complied with by the citizens, the so-called rationalists taking fascination…

The scale of corruption as well as the wealth that the corrupt in the country and elsewhere command seem to have sullied the image of money, the term believed to originate from a temple on one of Rome’s seven hills, where the mint of ancient Rome was located. It is said of water that not…

The earth’s biggest infrastructure is the earth itself, better say herself given the exalted position of mother in common parlance. In typical Indian families, mother has all the qualifications to be called their infrastructure living form that works, nay toils, for the cause of well-being of all members of the family, in both urban space…

Observing the growing population with unalloyed concern, Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), a British demographer and political economist, opined that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for human-beings. He also inferred that populations had a tendency to grow until the economically weaker sections suffered hardship, want…

Ancient scholars have written copiously on the intimate connect between water and life of all living forms, particularly in the case of human beings, animals and plants. In a verse taken from the script of one of those scholars, we learn that all living beings subsist on food and food is produced by water, sourced…

Policy statements such as open defecation-free Bharat have tended to sound like slogans that not only the top brass in administration but also leaders of all hues addressing their captive audiences as well as target sections in the land’s population through all available forms of media take fascination to include the expression, ostensibly to make…