A verse sourced to the ancient widely translated Sanskrit text Panchatantra, a collection of stories featuring animals, dating back to about 300 BC and attributed to Vishnu Sharma reads Vidya Dadaathi Vinayam… (Education makes one humble…). In the context of visualising education as going to school, college and obtaining certificates as proof of being educated,…

Allowing the mind to ponder over the terms Earth in general and one’s country in particular alongside the term mother rings sentimental bells sending those who love both entities into raptures. The rest, who are focussed on their self-centred agenda sans sentiment are dubbed as uncivilised. Loyalty to one’s motherland, triggered by attachment driven by…

While employing children for earning wages is unlawful according to the land’s law prohibiting child labour across the country, not landing a job bringing an income to sustain oneself in life for any adult is nightmarish. In a certain sense, keeping certain sections in society out of contention, in preference to certain other sections, in…

The world owes the emergence of automobile on the road as it were in 1892 to Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (1834-1900), an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist of what is now Germany. The engine that he invented jointly with Wilhelm Maybach was fancifully called Daimler’s Dream fulfilling the desire for a high speed engine useful in…

Occasionally people are called upon to address the task of nation-building.The calls are voiced by the smae public speakers with the features of different platform and divers audiences across the country. Mercifully, the nation has managed to retain its global image as a stable entity amidst the thousands of road shows being staged by hundreds…

Given the classical definition of democracy as a way of governing a country by its people, and for its people by an administration of its people, another term self-rule is popularly used in some circumstances. Also, given the features that only four out of five in the land’s total headcount are eligible to take part…

Craving for recognition by certain sections in the land’s mass of an estimated 135 crore people as minorities has caught up with yet another section in a well-marked sect. The demand by this fraternity with a considerably high headcount, which began on a quiet note recently has lately assumed the dimensions of a public rage,…

Mysuru is ablaze for a public cause. The notable feature of the scene that emerged this week on the road stretch from Kalamandira to the corner a few yards after the entrance to Jaladarshini Guest House was that the 1,000 plus citizens, youngest being a three-year-toddler and the most elderly being a couple of years…

The city’s literati, given to the habit of writing in their preferred columns of this daily, have been expressing a hope on Mysuru not going the Bengaluru way. The State’s capital, portrayed in glorious terms as the Garden City, Asia’s Fastest Growing City, and so on in the years not too long ago has fallen…

The Union Labour Ministry on Monday disclosed the broad contents of the policy to formalise the right of domestic workers to equal and minimum wages, social security cover, skill development programme and forming Unions at par with other workers under the existing labour laws. Until not too long ago, the domestic worker, euphemistically called domestic…