The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act, enacted by the nation’s Parliament on August 4, 2009, describing the modalities and importance of Free and Compulsory education for children between the age of 6 and 14 years in the country under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution, joining…

The numbers, natures and levels of the problems bugging the individuals, their families, society’s different sections and the nation, not to ignore the world at large, seem to be witnessing an unrelenting increase, adding to those remaining unaddressed or unresolved by the affected parties concerned, without meaning to deny the attempts and efforts to identify…

The elderly of families in well-marked sections of society made it a point in days past asking the school and college-bound youngsters to earmark a few minutes before bedtime, to write the daily diary, a practice that they had themselves cultivated as a habit. The intent behind that prescription as well as that practice seem…

The nation’s aam janata, preoccupied with expressing and exchanging their views, some in formal circles and the rest in gossip circles, on this’n’that of the Parliamentary polls held from the first half of April to the second half of May this year, may have gone back to their daily chores while political commentators, both seasoned…

Avenues of livelihood and aspirants for jobs in the land in terms of both variety and numbers have mutually kept pace, obviously the latter outpacing the former by miles in our times unlike the scenario a few decades ago. The then male section of the country’s headcount, accounting for half the total didn’t have to…

The land’s citizens, after soaking themselves with the rhetoric sumptuously served by the contestants in the polls to the nation’s Parliament and Legislative Assemblies of few States over the past weeks ending with the formation of Governments and choice of Ministers in the respective Cabinets have moved from talking phase to tasking phase. The Prime…

Writings of the land’s scholars, philosophers, social reformers, poets, authors of prose, not to forget the kings commanding people’s respect for their acts of benevolence featured in the narratives in the form of stories and anecdotes, all belonging to a distant past, prompts one to remember them respectfully as ancestors extraordinaire, with their only mission…

Anatomy of Indian Democracy dissected with the help of numerical data originating in official sources along with media reports should make fascinating read even in circles of lay people of the land. The numbers of a) Electorate, b) Members of the Lower House of Parliament, c) Those visiting the polling booths to exercise their right…

Figuratively or otherwise, even as the huge distance between Planets of the universe is being made to look not as huge as the reality, the distance between the elderly members of the family in particular and society in general seems to have become huge on the mental plane. That distance, being often described as generation…

Two well-marked natives of particular districts of Karnataka and Kerala figured in a cartoon following the historic event of astronauts landing on Moon (July 16, 1969). A tea stall and an establishment to serve coffee and snacks (idli, dosa) were shown to have pre-empted the astronauts in reaching the Earth’s satellite orbiting at an average…