Human beings have unwittingly reached a nadir in the matter of conducting themselves towards each other as well as towards all other life forms and also life-supporting resources on Planet Earth, glorified by scholars as Mother. Causing annoyance and succumbing to consequent anger being a global feature, the scenario of the land’s people in general…

This year’s monsoon, delayed by a few weeks, has been bountiful, first falsifying the forecast of deficit announced by the Meteorology Department and next causing floods bringing in their wake extensive damage to living spaces of people, roads, standing crops and Railway tracks, not to forget voluminous inflow into the reservoirs filling them with water…

Citizens with impressive track record of doing good in various activities in the cause of making life of people at large free of their life’s woes used to be recognised and honoured with titles appropriate to their field of excellence by the monarchs of the erstwhile Princely State of Mysore. The practice ceased from the…

Despite the advances in methods and devices used in diagnosing and medically treating various illnesses along with expertise of the Physician with name and fame in society in general and among the regularly consulting patients in particular, sometimes one is advised to seek a second opinion from another practitioner of medical profession, also bestowed recognition…

Advisory and suggestions on a steadily rising number of responsibilities, duties and unfinished works are pouring in addressed to different target sections of the land’s diaspora through many communication channels, particularly dailies in English and all regional languages, including Kannada. Two columns stand out such as Voice of the Reader and WhatsApp regularly featured in…

The country witnessed a rise in the number of IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) a few years ago not too long past while the conventional engineering colleges downed their shutters, an event that didn’t lead to informed debates in the circles of stakeholders for engineering education. Karnataka was conspicuous on both counts, namely IIT in…

While Mysuru is currently witnessing bustling construction activity raising multi-storeyed structures all over the city in the form of residential apartments and glitzy shopping complexes commanding costs of real estate at dizzy, unprecedented amounts, the heritage city of yesteryears hosted humble dwellings that could be rented at rates rarely exceeding double digits. The palatial buildings…

Talking about hair can be fascinating for those who are endowed with that filament in both pleasing hue and abundant mass, particularly on one’s head. Explaining that hair is a protein that grows from follicles in the dermis in different regions of the body’s skin may not excite too many people. Strangely or otherwise, the…

The term shambles originally is said to be a word for slaughterhouse, now meaning “one heck of a mess.” On taking even a cursory look at our present day society in particular and the country, if not the world, in general, one cannot but recall the scene in which a parent would be telling his…

lay people, for whom having cash enough to meet the needs of daily life in particular and everything else contributing to hassle-free living in general matters most. In this backdrop, the other indices attributed to global rating agencies such as Human Development Index may partly close the aforementioned gap in the two perceptions. Ideally, not…