The term road, any stretch that connects two points, thanks to the various parameters reckoned to describe its profile in our times, has acquired many avatars over time, beginning with its primordial identity lane (a narrow road, often in villages, still to be seen in Mysuru city’s old residential parts). A public way, with buildings…

The nation’s voluminous text, the Constitution, created in the wake of gaining political freedom from the nearly 150-year colonial rule is marked by various provisions aimed ostensibly at facilitating conditions to ensure liberty and equality to every citizen in the country, apart from serving as guideline for good governance in every sense of the expression….

Cities in the country are figuring in the news columns of dailies highlighting their state of cleanliness, as measured by over 30 parameters, and are also being ranked in their descending order of rating. Mysuru was bestowed top billing for two consecutive years (2015 and 2016) before sliding to fifth spot, with Indore in Madhya…

The least accepted event in the life of human beings at large is the inevitable phenomenon of death. The land’s puranas and narratives in the epics are cited by scholars with a reference to fate (vidhi) mentioning that it doesn’t spare any living being, including divine characters. Whatever has been said, is being heard or…

Scholars delivering discourses before their captive audiences comprising mostly men and women on the wrong side of 60 years, a common sight nowadays in Mysuru, on topics sourced to the land’s ancient texts such as Bhagavatha, Epics, Bhagavad Gita, Puranas, Philosophical writings of luminaries who walked across the land, verses scripted by unknown authors such…

Legends dating back to Roman and Greek civilisations, spanning 8th century BC to 5th century AD, which we get to read with scanty details of life that people of that distant past led reveal a feature that the large-sized statues and figurines that are to be found in abundance this day in those geographical regions,…

Children and their parents living with close relatives under a common roof with food prepared for all the inmates in a single kitchen leading harmoniously a tradition that has been guarded in the land for centuries crops up as a subject in different circles of writers and speakers who invariably bestow paeans on the now-dying…

The world view of the goings on in the largest (headcount-wise) Democracy globally and its people makes a fascinating read. If one takes the trouble of recording such views, expressed by both persons with opportunity to know first hand the happenings and those who either read reports in the media or hear from others during…

We are in the age of claiming various rights, many of which are enshrined in the country’s Constitution, adopted on January 26, 1950 as the guide to carry on administration by the government according to globally accepted principles of democracy. When the functionaries as well as the land’s various section in the population deviate from…

India’s teeming millions, in the eyes of some keen observers abroad, rightly seem to be a complex mix of people marked by profiles in a range that cannot be described exhaustively. They are in classifications of (a) persons, (b) important persons, (c) very important persons, (VIPs) and (d) Very very important persons (VVIPs), constituting the…