Magic shows, particularly those performed before gullible assembly of people anywhere, anytime and magicians are always a great hit keeping both kids and adults glued to their seats. The famous postulate of economics namely The law of diminishing marginal utility (stating that as a person increases consumption of a product, at one go, while keeping…

The land has hosted many legendary scholars, savants, sages, saints, philosophers, chroniclers and countless number of common people who have walked across its vast territory in the distant past during times when walking was the only option to reach places fired up by an undaunted spirit of exploration. We are now reading about their exploits…

Just to keep the democracy of the country going, mostly as a show piece, public funds amounting to God-knows-how-many-thousand-crore rupees are blown away once in five years in the general elections to the Parliament as well as State Legislatures, apart from a few lakh smaller units of administration namely City Municipal Corporations, Town Municipalities and…

The simplest advisory ‘Eat to live, don’t live to eat,’ that is not heard often nowadays, cannot be surpassed for its power of wisdom guiding one to go on a journey of healthy life spanning the full distance of four score and twenty (one hundred years). The expression, attributed to Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), noted American…

Sayings such as ‘Home is the first school for the child’ and ‘Mother is the child’s first teacher’ have become cliché in our times. The profile of the typical Indian home, as is being explained to the children in primary school, hosting large joint families, must be making the children already wonder about the difference…

A law attributed to some unknown wit says that “No two watches agree; if they agree, they are not watches (in real terms).” One cannot be faulted for extending the same logic behind this obscure law and say, “No two scholars agree; if they agree, they are not scholars (commanding respect).” This extended law’s force…

Thanks to advances in communication technology, we read or hear about events happening 24×7 (and also not happening in reality) anywhere on earth instantly, often in real time, as claimed by the professionals practicing the technology. The two irresistible habits of the land’s people at large, namely rumour-mongering and gossiping, may still be holding fort…

Administration during the reign of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, spanning the first half of the last century, has been extolled in all quarters, relating to the many pro-people measures credited to the king and his illustrious advisors. In total contrast, the rating of administration in the State and the profile of honchos at the helm in…