Not a single guest of honour called upon to speak for a couple of minutes before a full-house of audience comprising people across all age groups and socio-economic background during the programme to present popular songs featured in Kannada movies of bygone years and telecast for 30 minutes from 10 pm five days a week…

Out of the multitude of pre-occupations of the land’s people at large and their periodically elected representatives vying for (a) Tickets for contesting in the polls to the various bodies of law-making and administration, (b) Scrambling for a berth in the Cabinet of Ministers, salivating for unlimited scope for getting rich through unethical means, barring…

The issue of waiving the loans taken by the farming fraternity of Karnataka during the past few years, lingering on-and-off for several months since the time of campaigning by some political parties whose heavy-weights categorically declared pro-farmer measure of unburdening the debtors if the electorate facilitated formation of government in the State by the respective…

Public image of the working style of administration in government as well as civil service bureaucracy, being what it is, doesn’t need elaboration, particularly in the backdrop of the continually rising headcount and related cost, read outgo on salaries attached to these. British author Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993), famously known for advancing Parkinson’s Law namely,…

Family, the unit of society, used to be defined and described by teachers in primary schools as comprising children, their parents, grand-parents, uncles, aunts and even cousins which is bound to make their pupils sit up and wonder what the teachers are talking about. Presence of 20 or more members of a typical family under…

The air in the land is dense with whoever counts in whichever Cabinet of Ministers, both Central and States, including Karnataka, issuing statements, for public consumption as it were, that their priority is development, an intention that merits unqualified admiration. India’s economy is inching towards earning a place in the ranks of developed countries, after…

Translating the Sanskrit word vidya to education has its origins in the manner of most people, particularly the lay masses, considering schooling and education are synonymous in meaning. Further, drawing from the land’s ancient texts (in Sanskrit), scholars have perceived vidya as the field of learning in a virtual infinite horizon. The common perception of…

The two-word caption of today’s column may need a footnote at the outset. Even as the intended meaning of the words may become clear in the lines to follow, the first word is about the rate at which the country’s headcount is increasing from a given year to the next and the second is about…

Narratives in the land’s epics as well as history featuring the event of man-woman coming together in wedlock are fascinating to read. The system of swayamvara (the bride-to-be at full liberty in choosing her man from among a number of aspiring men) included the practice of stipulating a select set of qualifications for the men…

The question To be or Not To Be? figuring in the play Hamlet, attributed to William Shakespeare (1564-1616), may have been answered by the character in the play. Asking the question “To Eat or Not to Eat” in a similar vein is generally answered in favour of eating (the attractive dish) by people at large…