Rated as the loftiest Veda-derived thought is the message conveyed in the lines of Verses included in the sixth chapter of Mahopanishat. The lines translate to: ”One is a relative, the other stranger, say the small-minded. The entire world is a family, live the magnanimous. Be detached, be magnanimous, lift up your mind…” The context…

The land’s epics feature narratives about air travel during prehistoric times. More of believe-it-or-not reference made to flying from place to place separated by long distances on airborne vehicles always with room for one more person after they were houseful. Another instance of room for all, human beings, animals and possessions of various kinds, on…

An elected representative of people in the present Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, with a name for his outspoken manner of expressing his views on some sensitive issues for public consumption, has just been quoted in the media saying that intellectuals who make public statements on the country’s current dispensation regarding the beliefs and customs of…

The term pay, figuring in the caption to this column, refers to the pay packet and is used in its noun form. The term performance connotes work done by the fraternity in workforce earning wages in the process, usually stated clearly in advance. While the work done or performance in doing the assigned or agreed…

Whatever is said in order to express one’s opinion on others, based either on experience or understanding or even misunderstanding (which happens more often), seems to benefit or suffer in importance depending on who says so. One has to just do a bit of speed reading of the printed matter in the columns of dailies…

Mood, being commonly understood as state of the mind, takes one from one state of mind to another, not always in a desirable change-over. If that change manifests itself as anger, the consequences happen in a chain of sorts as succinctly said in a Bhagavadgita verse 63 of chapter two. The fallout of anger, as…

Given the goings on around the country, as is being faithfully reported by the land’s print media, including the dailies of the State, the copy-writing fraternity at the editorial desk have reached a point of preparing the matter to be printed a day in advance, thanks to various recurring features of the declining quality of…

Thanks to various factors impacting interpersonal relationships in our times, people at large seem to be bestowing low premium to be pleasant towards others in word, deed and thought —take your pick. Scholars refer to instances witnessing persons who take care to be pleasant always in these three channels, making interactions both rewarding and worth…

The time-honoured feature of routinely subjecting children to the not-much-liked schooling, a practice dating back to times lost in antiquity, has got morphed to mean scoring high marks first and later battling for securing a seat in top-ranking institutions offering professional courses for assured place in the job market. Even as the law-makers and bureaucracy…