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Pavilion of Pets
Editorial

Pavilion of Pets

February 6, 2018

Two of the most popular pets are dogs and cats. Given the steadily shrinking living space in particularly overcrowded cities for the human residents, fascinatingly called metros, these companion animals may become history in course of time. Restrictions are already being imposed denying pets to share space in multistoreyed apartments, including those that have come…

Better late than never
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Better late than never

February 5, 2018

The Union Finance Minister has just done the annual ritual of presenting the Government’s Budget proposed to generate funds and spending it during the coming twelve months of the fiscal, ostensibly to safeguard the nation’s economic health in particular and welfare of its populace in general. While the effort attracted adoration from some quarters, the…

Climbing down India’s population spiral
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Climbing down India’s population spiral

February 3, 2018

Mother earth gives protection to all the living beings without discrimination. Sadly, the same courtesy is not being reciprocated by different classes among the inhabitants, human beings at large asserting their right to enjoy the earth’s bounty over the rest. The planet is currently bearing the load of an estimated headcount of more than 700…

Accessing food by all
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Accessing food by all

February 2, 2018

There is a statement that there will always be enough to meet everyone’s need, but not everyone’s greed. In this era that is witnessing a slim, if not a vanishing line setting apart need from luxuries, read greed, it is imperative not only to produce more materials of both need and luxuries taking no break…

Love letter-driven writing
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Love letter-driven writing

February 1, 2018

Lines scripted by poets, particularly those who have immortalised themselves, being in the celebrated class long after their times, have earned them well-marked identity. William Wordsworth (1770-1850), described by his admirers as an early leader of romanticism and nature’s poet concentrating on human emotions, ranking as one of the greatest lyricists treated prose as secondary…

Playing with pay package
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Playing with pay package

January 31, 2018

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote about mercy in his play The Merchant of Venice. “No one shows mercy because he has to. It just happens, the way gentle rain drops on the ground. Mercy is a double blessing. The quality of mercy is not strained. It is twice blest. It blesseth him that gives and him…

To be or not to be? That is the question
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To be or not to be? That is the question

January 30, 2018

In a overheard brief exchange of pleasantries between two elderly relatives hailing from the same village, both well past their eighties, one of them a dropout in primary school and the other retired for many years after service in the government, the diverse outlook to life (and death) was witnessed. The interaction lasted barely a…

Life with wisdom
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Life with wisdom

January 29, 2018

An expression not in the air nowadays to the extent it is needed to lead life with wisdom namely, Eat to live and not live to eat tells all about Ayur Veda (Science of Life) in the simplest manner as it were. Describing Ayurveda in many commonly noticed ways has turned fascinating. Some have portrayed…

Isolated, but not lonely
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Isolated, but not lonely

January 27, 2018

At least two laws of life and death cannot be questioned. One is that human beings come to this world alone (barring cases of twins or more delivered at the same time) and depart alone (barring the now-banned sati). The second law is that death is unavoidable, being a certainty. The journey from the cradle…

Tailed ancestors, Tailless descendants
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Tailed ancestors, Tailless descendants

January 25, 2018

The term tail, for the sake of this column, is to be understand as the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk. The intent is to take up the case of simians (excluding apes which don’t have the appendage) juxtaposed with homosapiens (modern humans) in the context…

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