The land’s people seem to be sandwiched between its armed forces and rogue elements, euphemistically identified as terrorists or militants preoccupied with terrorism, a term that has tended to be understood as an activity motivated mainly by religion. Not being a 21st century phenomenon, according to chroniclers, it has its roots dating back to several…

Even as the world was watching, the drama of the nation’s election of members for a five-year term in the 17th Lok Sabha has ended this week with the final Act of the Play, counting the votes followed by disclosing the outcome. The incumbent ruling party, having got past the winning post, is scheduled to…

The land’s people at large, soaked in words of wisdom attributed to sages and scholars of yore, don’t seem to be convinced about the relevance of the message therein with simple-to-follow rules of the game called life and to live in sync with nature, even as its largesse in the form of air, water, soil…

Moments of happiness and sadness, anger and frustration, depression and excitement, not to forget reconciliation and quiet reflection in the journey of life mirror the magical side of our mind. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves as the renowned psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875-1961) has said. Physical health,…

Even as the physical space in the country remains constant per se, its availability per citizen shall gradually and steadily shrink over the passage of time, thanks to the unrelenting annual addition to the land’s headcount at an average number of births in a day currently estimated as 50,000 or near about. The share in…

In intimate connect between liking in environments loaded with filth and getting bugged by various afflictions does not seem to have been bestowed attention of majority in the country’s population to the extent that one would desire. Mysureans with the habit of reading this daily cannot miss reports concerning solid waste, generated everyday in mountainous…

Pages of history track the rule by Wadiyars of Mysore spanning nearly five centuries, coming to an end in 1947 with the near-fifty-year rule of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar (1884-1949) being universally accepted as the most glorious on the count of providing governance marked by welfare of all sections of society as the central agenda. The…

In the backdrop of Korea hosting a population comprising citizens identified by a most common name, it is humorously said that if you toss a stone in the streets of that country, it is most likely to land on the head of a Lee. In a similar vein, it can be said, even seriously, that…

Mysureans past the age of 80 years can recollect the feature of people walking, read commuting, to reach their destinations such as the shops in the Central Business District (CBD) of the city, Offices of different Departments of the Government (their number being a fraction of what they are nowadays), schools and colleges (most of…

Renowned American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), on his visit to  the 1,063-ft. tall Eiffel Tower, the gigantic wrought iron structure on the Champ de Mars, the large green space in Paris, France, constructed in 1889 and named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel whose company designed and built the tower, is said to have signed…