The idiom A lot of water has flowed under the bridge may convey wider message than in incidents which occurred in the past and no longer has any importance. One such incident provides the context in which a person disclosed that his wife had an affair with her boss, it is all water under the…

Taking stock of the perspective being talked and written about by the country’s diaspora across the wide cross section of society as they visualise the current goings on in the land can both be fascinating and disturbing for different reasons, depending on knowledge and understanding of the diverse factors causing and contributing to the scenario….

The country’s steadily expanding human population, establishment of medical education institutions adding to their existing number across the nation, increasing the intake of students in medical colleges both for under-graduate and post-graduate courses, cost of medical education both in government-managed and private institutions, output of medicines and diagnostic devices by indigenous pharmaceutical industry, and last…

Lament by a marked section of public speakers about absence of old values in society of our times and clarion calls to the youth to imbibe those values don’t seem to have many takers. As if to add insult to injury, many a youth can be heard questioning the relevance of the advisory coming from…

The currently accepted figure of seven plus billion human beings hosted by planet earth, respectfully projected as mother, taken along with the second related figure of the annual addition to this mass, namely 85 million, while noting that the world’s total headcount was only one billion in 1800 and expected to touch 10 billion at…

The fever of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, launched on October 2, 2014 and the fervour displayed by the nation’s people at large to sweep the streets, mop the living spaces, gather the garbage mass as well as sanitise every nook and corner in both urban and rural areas across the country have currently come down on…

Seasoned analysts of the just-announced outcome of the election to the 15th Legislative Assembly of Karnataka and also the Spokespersons of major political parties taking part in debates telecast by different Kannada channels of the television network dwelt on many issues mirroring the mindset of the State’s electorate of the near-about 70 per cent out…

The Kannada idiom Attegondu Kaala, Sosegondu Kaala succinctly portraying the plight of persons having a whale of a time enjoying boundless authority and influence both in the family and society at large forced to play second-fiddle to another person taking over the reins may not be familiar to the present generation’s flock. The resulting loss…

The country’s ongoing annual addition to the already accumulated number of both unemployed and underemployed population doesn’t seem to have weighed down the top brass in the incumbent Union Government as well as the heavy-weights in the Opposition who happened to indulge in the just-concluded poll campaigns in Karnataka generously assuring creation of jobs in…

The pick of the playwrights, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), famously identified as the Bard of Stratford upon Avon wrote his famous line “All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players” in the play As you like it. Whether anyone accepts or not, they have their exits and entrances. The sharp-brained…