The land’s people are being reminded about the imperatives of keeping their living spaces spic and span. The message being blared on the small screen, using popular film personalities and also through dailies in various languages, currently toilet-centric, appears to have been oversimplified, given the parting shot in the campaign saying ‘Keeping the toilet door…

The section of the land’s population, fortunate to be engaged on white-collar jobs, doesn’t seem to realise the plight of the aforementioned workforce bugged by serious threat to their health, short span of work life, low wages, lack of education and living in insanitary environs. Although governments are expected to comply with worker-friendly laws through…

The elected members of India’s Parliament, the supreme legislative body of the nation, are figuring in the media prominently for all bad reasons over  the past two weeks. The daily routine of its two houses namely Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and Lok Sabha (House of the people) starting with the members trooping in and…

Figures of (a) number of towns and cities in the country and (b) number of residents in each of these steadily expanding territories and head counts have emerged as the most talked about, saying that cities are larger geographical areas than towns and also more densely populated amounts to spelling out the difference between the…

To decide which of a number of different jobs or tasks are most important or urgent and dealing with them first mandates to have a good grasp of the issues and knowing how to prioritise the choice of those tasks in the descending order of their importance is all about prioritising priorities. The powers that…

After allowing a few years to pass following the formal declaration proclaiming India as a sovereign democratic republic, the powers that be qualified the nation’s status by adding the term secular to the script of the preamble to the country’s Constitution. That landmark action, seen in many circles among the literati as suspect, has also…

The most-talked about book on the subject of time, unarguably, is the publication A Brief History of Time by British Physicist Stephen William Hawking (1942-2018). The book, first published in 1988, became a best-seller and sold more than 10 million copies in 20 years. The legendary scientist is said to have written the 256-page book,…

A rule of the game of happiness stated as a philosophical expression in just four words, Don’t worry, be happy is attributed to the Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894-1969). Like virtually all other rules of life prescribed by administration to the people at large for compliance, the aforementioned rule for happiness doesn’t seem…

The goings on in the country as well as across the world are marked by tough times to different degrees of dealing with them. The inter-country scenario is currently witnessing the top brass of one country challenging its counterpart in another country in respect of economic superiority as well as military might, drawing themselves to…

The public image of most persons whose names create a sense of awe, given their stellar role in India’s freedom movement, triggers thoughts on the dismal public image of the land’s current netas, barring a few exceptions. The mass following that the leading lights who confronted the ruling class of the erstwhile British Raj commanded…