The Right to Information (RTI), under an Act of the Parliament of India, enacted on June 15, 2005, and assented on June 22 of the same year, for setting out the practical regime of the right for citizens, replacing the erstwhile Freedom of Information Act 2002, commenced on October 12, 2005, mandating timely response to…

Both the skyline and the landscape across Mysuru are witnessing a steady change each passing year. More appropriately, the time-honoured residential areas in Mysore of yesteryears have made the city already bearing the brunt of unsightly multistorey dwellings and barren roads and avenues with hundreds of fully-grown trees gone forever. Old timers of Mysore, visiting…

School-bound children, the harassed home-maker and the wage-earning father in a typical family team have their respective territories of work in daily life, currently witnessing an undergoing change of the time-honoured scene. The juniors are revelling with a steadily enlarging canvas of opportunities for outdoor activities including sports unlike their counterparts of the past shuttling…

Inter-country and also intra-country unrest seem to be going out of hands threatening national security and citizens’ safety in ways and on a scale like never before in human history. Human kind has progressed in a negative sense, at a slow rate for many centuries and rapidly in modern times, given the use of clubs,…

Policy, programme and plan of action relating to the multitude of sectors in the country’s economy ought to be addressed by successive governments at the Centre and its counterparts in the 36 States and Union Territories in tandem, particularly for the two major sectors namely, agriculture and industry, maybe in that order. Given the too-well-known…

The expression Art is long, Life is short suggesting that works of art last much longer than human lives may require modification of its message in the current scenario of galloping advances in science and technology necessitating unavoidable adjustments in the daily life of people at large, given both postulates of science witnessing scrutiny and…

Two topics that figured in exchange of pleasantries among urbanites at large until not too long ago used to be vagaries of weather and volatile inflation in the land. Even as they seem to have realised that these topics have suffered a time-warp, the topics that are being bestowed exaggerated importance seem to be (a)…

This column is devoted and dedicated to the now-disappearing fraternity of traders with their kiraana shops knocked out by headwinds in the form their customers favouring online orders and doorstep delivery of virtually all their needs of daily life. Residents of Mysuru now in the evening of their long life can recollect with nostalgia the…

While one owes one’s knowledge to a guru, both inside the four walls of a classroom and beyond, customs emerge from life’s experiences. Postulates that we owe to science owe it to experiments. The various customs that are followed by the land’s people at large and have come to be regarded as its tradition of…

Saying that “when there is no money in one’s pocket, everything looks costly” is a gross understatement. The number of families in the land, unable to access cash for purchasing even bare necessities of life, particularly food of whatever nutritional rating and shelter for their members, is beyond anybody’s guess. Whatever that number, figuring in…