Landmark happenings during the first half of the last century in different sectors of economy benefiting people of the erstwhile Princely State of Mysore on a scale that cannot be fathomed is not only associated with the then ruler of the State, Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar but also full credit is bestowed on him by chroniclers…

Governments, unjustifiably or otherwise, are being charged with under-performance on various counts. Failure to create jobs in the face of mounting numbers of educated youth year after year has been dominating the many accusations facing the incumbent government at the Centre whose top brass is busy with campaigning during the weeks preceding the polls to…

The two digits, 0 and 1, together described as binary code, also called bits, used for representing words and also images, traced to the binary number system, invented by Gottfried Leibniz (1646 – 1716) in 1689, accounting virtually for the heart and soul of all electronic devices, may not be familiar to anyone among lay…

Tracing the origins of the multitude of life forms on planet earth and their arrival on its surface, including the different water bodies in the range of oceans-rivers-lakes-streams-ponds-wells-and-what-have-you, followed by their departure, read disappearance for good, popularly described as extinction, over the time span of the planet’s existence, estimated chemically at 4.5 billion years, has…

Public examinations conducted by all-India agencies such as CBSE and State Governments as well as UPSC seem to have become happy hunting grounds for the hitherto grossly under-rated fraternity of the female species, given the multi-column headlines on the front page of dailies of all hues and languages with the all-too-familiar expression “girls outshine the…

Researchers in the area of behavioural science and space exploration have inferred that language (tongue) could hold the key to encourage healthy eating (tongue). Coaxing people, rather than coercion helps, the scientists have opined. One study, according to reports published in scientific journals, has brought out that in situations with options, words matter. Even as…

India’s stock of music and dance, backed by lyrics with messages both with spiritual and entertainment elements, appealing to different sections of society in the entire cross-section of age groups, suited to sublime as well as mundane ambience, also with history dating back to several centuries is unarguably not matched by any other country globally….

Many parameters in common use to portray the health status of the country’s economy and the abilities of its people or otherwise don’t seem to be within the grasp of the major part of the land’s masses. Two such parameters suggest themselves instantly, namely a) Literacy (reportedly on the cusp of 70 per cent) and…

Economists, with their armour of eloquence boasting their faculty of astute analysis followed by clear presentation of the state of health or otherwise about the land’s economy are often the butt of light-hearted ridicule even as they adore the progress on one hand and downgrade the regress on the other hand prompting a wit to…

Eating to sustain and hogging for pleasure, however short-lived, are different kettles of fish. Thanks to the factor of wide choice in the land’s time-honoured cuisine, a legacy handed down by its generations over several centuries, eating for pleasure without resorting to hogging is no big deal. However, the dishes that are an integral part…