Considering the ubiquitous presence of the bug cockroach all over the globe, with no nook or corner spared (for how long it has taken residence on planet Earth, God-only-knows) and now enjoying august company of the equally ubiquitous cell phone (as mobile phone is christened in North America), reportedly produced for the first time in…

The air in Karnataka was abuzz for some time past with (a) Confrontation between the medical professionals and the State Government and (b) Public debates on the question which of these sides was taking a proper stand on specific issues of medicare of the citizens and which other side was on acting in a way…

What do Mysuru and Yoga have in common? Both made it to the record books — Mysuru city bagged the ‘Cleanest City of India’ tag twice under Swachh Survekshan Survey while the Largest Yoga Class at a single venue found a pride of place in the Guinness Book of World Records. After Mysuru city lost…

One day it is there and the other day it is gone. Again it comes after a hue and cry and it vanishes without a trace. Air service from and to Mysuru has become the proverbial Hamlet’s Ghost, much to the chagrin of Mysureans, especially those who depend on tourism for their bread and butter….

The goings on in the State relating to issues connected with distance education should be bewildering to the already affected students of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) as they have been suggested by none other than Additional Chief Secretary of Karnataka to contemplate joining other colleges to get a degree, hinting that the possibility of…

The nation finds itself in a whirlpool of problems, bugging not only those in charge of managing the house but also its inmates as it were, that is the mass expanding on any time scale one chooses. If demographers tell us that the headcount at any point of time gets added to the existing mass…

One’s wealth is inherited while riches are earned according to a seasoned speaker on various aspects of our society. Taking a leaf out of his perception of the subtle difference between wealthy persons and the rich, one is prompted to remark that vast knowledge relating to healthy life without using or depending on modern medicines,…

Roads have come on centre-stage in public domain, particularly in Karnataka, for all bad reasons. Sources in the Government often make it a point to inform the people, mostly through print media, about roads across the State, dwelling on length in kilometres added to the existing network, widening some stretches, both intra-city and inter-city, raising…

The means of preserving literary works of ancient authors, many of them unknown to later generations, by memorising and word of mouth as it were along with etching on stone slabs and inking on palm leaves, compared to modern means of storing and conveying information, literary works and graphics using paper, printing, digitisation and wireless…

We don’t get an insight from the pages of history or narratives in the land’s epics to infer that invariably a war of words precedes wars with weapons, although incidents of wars in all past having taken place without words being exchanged between the warring parties cannot be excluded as we look back. The virtual…