Archaeologists, architects and practising civil engineers in the country either coming out in the open on a common platform or interacting on issues that are within their respective ambit for the cause of creating structures that not only rank high aesthetically but also endure the effects of climate change for long periods, like the countless…

Vulnerability to assaults by alien marauders of people hosted by the region that used to be described as Indian sub-continent until its some parts were bestowed distinct identity as countries namely Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Nepal (the only Hindu Kingdom in the world) has a history of several centuries, given the…

Flooding of large areas of agricultural lands with standing crops and plantations in Malnad regions of Karnataka, particularly Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan, inundating of urban as well as rural living spaces in several States across the country, including North-Eastern region, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha and Karnataka causing extensive losses…

Patting one’s own back and appreciating good work of others without hint of doing it superficially result in different kinds of reactions, the first kind dismissed as the feature of people described as the club bore. The second kind marks the culture of persons driven by broad-mindedness. Measures taken by Governments of the day ostensibly…

What is secure and what is insecure about people and places in the land can be debated both formally and informally, subjectively and objectively, knowledgeably and ignorantly, emotionally and calmly depending on whether the discussants have stakes with the related issues. A breed of Indians have emerged since not too long past getting the benefit…

The country’s affluent sections have no cause for complaining about the prohibitive costs of drugs as well as hospital tariffs, while these sections are reportedly less than two per cent of the land’s total headcount. The mass, identified as Below Poverty Line ( BPL), said to be managing (not to perish) with less than 100…

Unarguably the only human pursuit that must comply with the factor of punctuality is production of dailies in various languages of the land. Not all readers are aware of the sleepless nights that their managements experience in ensuring their deslivery at the doorstep of the subscribing readers virtually on the dot. Reporters, copy-writers, printing crew,…

Motivational Speaker and author Paul Scanlon (born: 1957) has observed, citing research finding, that as many as 80 per cent of people are unhappy at work, adding that a bigger problem than unemployment is misemployment. Disenchanted in life and clueless about what befalls them in days and years ahead, destiny, sometimes referred to as fate…

Literacy in the country is reported to be increasing year after year. In one of the States, it is claimed to be 100 per cent, where virtually no one can be found without reading one daily or the other, including all types of periodicals in English language too, not to forget that there is no…

Different generations, social groups, ethnic identities, diverse cultures and various regions are marked with food fads, portraying trends or craze in many forms of collective behaviour that develops over time, often changing as time passes. Social anthropologists should be able to throw light on factors that have a direct bearing on the issue of food…