Days of describing India as an agrarian economy are coming to an end at an unprecedented pace year on year. Given the steadily declining share of the land’s industry sector to its annually created wealth, one cannot be faulted to question the view that India is a growing industrialised region of the world. In the…

An often heard slogan, bordering on tokenism, from the usual flock of public speakers of all hues, mostly on poll eve, is about inclusive society, meaning zero or near-zero gap between the current mass of economically weaker sections in the land and the rest who are comfortably placed in life, thanks to either enormous wealth…

Readers of newspapers may have felt a sense of boredom or saturation or even confusion after reading whatever has appeared in print about two landmark moves taken by the incumbent government at the Centre namely (a) Demonetisation of currency having face value of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000, made public on Nov. 8, 2016 and…

From the times of a distant past, when roads, meant mainly for walkers alongside those commuting in animal-drawn carts, were narrow and dwellings were roomy, we have reached a point of laying wide roads and huddling in not-so-roomy dwellings, now called apartments, flats and whatever, in multistoreyed buildings, particularly in urban spaces, a scenario in…

As the nation launched itself on the new-found onerous task of ruling on democratic lines, the top brass in the fledging government at the Centre sought advice of a British expert in administration by name Appleby. Call it irony or whatever, the expert advice had to be sought from the British colonialists who, having ruled…

The set of initials of names for different indigenous systems of medicare as well as healthcare being practised virtually in all regions of the country is becoming familiar to the literati as the acronym AYUSH. For starters, Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy have been chosen by the authorities in the Union Government for zeroing…

Law-making in the land can be traced to a period of its centuries of history, whether recorded or not, to as far back as one’s ability to look back. Narratives which are part of the country’s epics including Ramayana and Mahabharata too have their share of references to law-making. Not only India’s much-adored Constitution is…

India is the world’s largest democracy. One has to keep one’s reaction to that claim, or description of the nation using superlative adjective, without getting lost in the choice between (a) the adulation reflects its humongous population (as the second most populous) and (b) the appreciation for its democratic dispensation (which has started showing signs…

The American intellectual and inventor Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) is quoted as saying that there is nothing in life as certain as death and taxes. One may be inclined to take the quote as a merely humorous banter of Franklin, probably getting into a frame of mind hating the thought of shelling out taxes and taking…

Life’s journey towards landing a job and battling the ups and downs through subsequent years begins not a day too late after passing various examinations, starting with SSLC and PUC second year, unless one drops out of school even before making it to final year in high school. For the present column, the channels of…