Sweating at work, particularly on the farm land to grow fruits and vegetables as well as raise food crops, has come to be considered strenuous both physically and financially resulting in disenchantment in the agriculture sector of the nation’s economy. The reasons for not luring the land’s youth to take to the plough are not…

Mysuru’s administration as well as residents seem to have chosen not to be engaged on issues of stray dogs, wandering cattle and prowling pigs in the city’s streets for now. The disappearance of sparrows and shrinking presence of crows, nature’s cleaning brigade did not receive attention in any quarters among the citizens to the extent…

Verbal exchanges in anger without helping to understand the issue in question and also the views of either party on the matter is the order of the day and common sight everywhere in the land prompting one to recollect the idiom more heat than light. Men often take fascination to cite the case of women…

Mysore of the past has hosted many eminent citizens commanding unbounded respect if society which has endured to this day both in articles written about the city’s glorious history and in speeches by noted public speakers on various celebratory occasions from different platforms before the city’s discerning literati. The eminent personalities have left their lasting…

Leaders of the land’s political parties, both national and regional, have smeared themselves in black by not conducting themselves in a manner that behoves democratically elected representatives to the nation’s highest law-making body, the Parliament. The entire three-week session for debating and deciding on many important bills and also the nation’s budget proposal for 2018-19…

Verses attributed to no author in particular, written either in two lines or four, conveying mind-capturing portrayal of the happenings in nature as well as in life of people at large have been bestowed the status of words of wisdom or Subhashitha in Sanskrit. The lines of unknown vintage have endured for centuries through word…

Approval of projects to raise buildings, laying of roads, construction of bridges and other components under the broad umbrella called infrastructure, allocation of outlay, sanction of funds in stages of the projects’ progress (?) and finally conducting foundation-laying ceremony with one or the other Minister in the Cabinet of the State government, preferably the Chief…

The country’s literati, including the ever alert fraternity of analysts of its economic affairs and politically noisy ambience in all the regions, seem to have taken a holiday from writing articles on the two virtually dead topics namely, corruption and pollution. Other subjects that they have given a free run to their pens have been…

The classical economist Robert Malthus (1766-1834), influential in the fields of political economy and demography, is credited with the theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and betterment of human kind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction, a theory known as Malthusianism. He also postulated in his 1798 book…

Academic institutions at different levels of learning earn name and fame based on factors as diverse as chalk and cheese. Nalanda University of several centuries vintage continues to be portrayed as the topmost centre of learning globally but without citation of any other institution of its times being ranked on any accepted scale such as…