The country’s People-to-Police ratio is witnessing a change leading to the number of cops per one lakh population fast approaching the figures being reported in many countries of the West. The not-so-subtle point to be noted is that the world’s second most populous country is on the cusp of having the second most, if not…

Birth and death, the two events marking the start and end of life’s journey, the first perceived as an accident and the second accepted as inevitable in case of all living beings have not spared even the characters featured in the land’s epics scripted between five and ten thousand years ago. Barring a few among…

An old Kannada idiom crisply describes the culture, more appropriately the lack of culture of a person by the expression naalige kula helithu (words spoken reveal the social background). The current scenario in the land, specially across Karnataka, going by the voluminous printed matter in dailies of all hues, portrays the heavy weights in both…

Historians have traced the approximate dateline for the birth of a few cities around the world, including some in the country. The birth of Bengaluru, having been rechristened recently from its globally recognised name of Bangalore and attributed to Magadi ruler Kempegowda, enjoying a five-plus-century vintage is being bandied about by speakers on specific occasions,…

Ants and honey bees in particular and insects of all known kinds inhabiting the planet earth in general are known to be engaged on work 24×7. The denizens of the forest too work in order to catch their prey for assuaging hunger before taking it easy until it is time to do it again subsequently….

Even as the terms home and house are widely apart, marked by oceans of difference between them on many counts, the rate of homes hosting their lords and ladies in a harmonious and enduring relationship turning into houses hosting the estranged life partners as single parents is steadily going up in our times across the…

The highly laudable Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan was launched on October 2, 2014 with a call to the nation’s countrymen (and women as well as children) for coming together wholeheartedly in the operation clean India project as a national mission. The response of the people all over the country, including Mysuru (with its residents dubbed as…

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (1888-1946) gave the first public demonstration of televised image in motion at a department store in London. Recorded information on a) When was the first television sold, b) When was the first colour television device sold and c) When was television first used in homes, may not interest anyone barring…

Ancient philosophers of the land are quoted as saying: “Speak truth in such a way that it should be pleasing to others. Never speak truth, which is unpleasant to others. Never speak untruth, which might be pleasant. This is the path of eternal morality.” A renowned scholar has further opined that even speaking truth that…