A verse in the Bhagavadgita conveys the message that has stood the test of time and more relevant in present times. People at large implicitly follow, read, copy whatever persons of virtue (shresta) say or do. The era of society recognising and respecting such persons seems to have ended. In their place, the country in…

Advances in both technology and science as an outcome are considered to have benefited the rapidly expanding sector of medicine to an extent no less than the sector of space exploration. Even as rocket science has dominated the field of space exploration, the multi-discipline teams working in the field have contributed through high order research…

Even as global rating agencies are taking a close look at the economic ups and downs of different countries with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in astronomical proportions, India too joining the league, although slowly but steadily, the nation’s States, including Karnataka among the leading regions, have also started talking business with the catchy phrase…

Luring consumer fraternity, the land’s masses in reality, in the present era of consumerism, to cough up cash and buy goods, whether they meet a clear necessity or impulse buying, has its element of creativity in the rapidly progressing area of marketing, succeeding in which is the litmus test for survival of business and enterprise…

Human beings are in competition among themselves in choosing attires for covering their bodies unlike all other species without the ability to emulate the human kind. Mercifully, the emergence of cotton and wool initially and later synthetic materials spared the animals whose skin served as raw material to produce clothing, a collective term for attires…

A classical description of money, attributed to some highly rated economist, is crisply stated as ‘Money is what money does.’ The term beauty has its time-honoured perception expressed in a simpler yet fascinating statement, namely, ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder,’ thus lending beauty a canvas with no boundary and the beholder a…

Currency circulating in the country’s economy and used in trade and by its people at large has been witnessing unprecedented intervention by the government, the recognised authority for its issue as legal tender. First of all, coins of face value equal to less than one rupee have become part of the coinage in the land….

The nation is currently at the top, globally, in the fast-growing area of information and communication technology, thanks to the tireless efforts by its army of computer software professionals. Further, Bengaluru figures prominently among the centres across the country hosting the soldiers as it were, even as Mysuru is not lagging much. However, the terms…

Learning languages and choice of language as medium of instruction at primary and secondary school stages seem to have got into the crucible of confusion and cauldron of controversy in the camp of litterateurs even as the political class is not unanimous in deciding the issue and the parents, the primary stakeholders and their children,…

The expression of an unknown vintage Cleanliness is next to Godliness has been appropriately modified as Swachh Bharat Swasth Bharat (Cleanliness in the land means an affliction-free land), attributed to someone among the top brass in the incumbent Government at the Centre. The timely exhorting the masses seems to have happened in the wake of…