If wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. An English language proverb, first recorded about 1628 in a collection, namely “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride them” succinctly conveys the message marking the all-too-common human nature of laziness in wishing for unqualified wellness and not…

Every alternate week, if not day, the nation’s people are informed through all forms of media that the country is heading towards prosperity in the years ahead. The sources in the administration and their supporters are optimistic about India crossing the bar at 16-trillion-dollar economy. However, figures of people in the masses without access to…

Looking for supply of materials from other countries to meet the major needs of the land’s steadily expanding masses, particularly food grains, takes us back to the mid-60s when the physically diminutive but otherwise steely leader Lal Bahadur Shastri took over the reins of the government. Although his stint at the top was too short,…

The poet wrote that love is a many splendoured thing. Going by the diverse aspects of food as visualised by the knowledgeable and the rest who are just happy after savouring their well-served favourite dishes, one is prompted to agree with the remark that food is a many splendoured thing too, in no way less…

Temples, particularly the shrines of centuries vintage, built by anonymous munis and renowned thinkers credited with philosophical works marked by spiritual ideologies that have endured to this day on the banks of rivers or in their vicinity is common sight in all regions of the country. Karnataka hosts a large number of riverside temples besides…

Authorities at different levels figure occasionally in media reports carrying out exercises that can gladden the citizens at large. That periodic act is rarely reported upon on the front pages of dailies, not even above the fold-line of inner pages. We are talking of the authorities at Zilla Panchayat and also State Administration levels reviewing…

Issues relating to the factor of caste, as commonly talked about in public domain across the country have got churned to a point of insanity in our times. The other factor, namely religion, meaning ‘an organised system of beliefs, ceremonies and rules to worship a God or Gods with piety and devotion’ has done incalculable…

Whether we relish it or not, the generation preceding ours leaves behind a legacy, which in turn the subsequent generation bequeaths. Cash and immovable property are welcome, but not a load of debt to be cleared in tight time-frame and litigation. Information, knowledge and wisdom, in that order, as they relate to daily life and…

Moulding the young and growing members in a family, beginning even before the teenage stage, into a versatile adult, strong both physically and mentally, to take on the challenges of life, to imbibe virtues of serving society without self-interest, to take on the duties of the family from where the elders have left and so…

The nature, number, volume and, last but not the least, the unbearable intensity of odour of all the residue generated by human beings and accumulating at the end of every day has long past crossed the limit of human ingenuity to deal with the obnoxious mass locally, regionally, nationally and even globally everywhere on planet…