All sorts of goods offered in attractive packages for sale in the land used to display (in small print) until not too long ago the expression amounting to an amount in addition to the stated price of the product as taxes with no clue to the buyer whether that addition had legal sanction. Then came…
Quality of Life-Smart City combo
June 30, 2017We have heard on many occasions quoting Gandhiji who remarked that the (erstwhile) Princely State of Mysore during the rule of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar was Ramarajya, meaning the State hosted a totally satisfied society in respect of physical health, family atmosphere, education, employment, wealth, religious beliefs with harmony, financial status of individuals and, last but…
To eat or not to eat
June 29, 2017Government is on safe track as long as its actions conform to the country’s Constitution framework. The amendments made during the many governments of the land so far to its text reflect its inadequacy in setting the track initially. Issues relating to food of the country‘s population, given its diversity on various counts including and…
Cash comes cascading to cities
June 28, 2017Having been launched in June 2015, the Smart City mission to achieve a makeover of 100 cities to start with, across the country by the Union Government has already written its own history (of two years) much before the residents in the mission’s up-to-date list of selected urban spaces can smell (before seeing) the dream…
Counting trees, missing woods
June 27, 2017Numbers, the toy with which pundits, particularly mathematicians, call them more appropriately ganithashastrajnas, have revelled themselves for centuries since vedic times believed to be of more than 50 centuries vintage, have caught the fancy of both administration and people at large in every conceivable walks of life, given the ongoing ubiquitous practice of stating in…
Harnessing human resources
June 26, 2017The nation’s youth are being talked about in circles of both the informed and the uninformed with diverse outlook and understanding. They account for half the land’s total population yearning for a livelihood. The steadily growing mass of graduates that are coming out of Universities across the country with hopes of making it in life…
Reining in rampaging road shows
June 24, 2017Pundits pursuing issues relating to governments functioning in countries following principles of democracy have favoured a set of privileges, rights in particular, of which the freedom to dissent seems to have drawn into its whirl the land’s mass of humanity, specially the youth and more so the unemployed sections, given the present-day scenario of rampaging…
Dealing with bursting bubble
June 23, 2017The emergence of computers that function based on the now-well-known binary number comprising the numericals 0 and 1, enabling representation of any number or rows of symbols as a binary numeric, closely followed by advances in the field of digital technology mark a saga that words cannot express to match the amazing journey of what…
Sign language as land’s lingo
June 22, 2017Public speakers of a not-too-distant past in the land, irrespective of the language they spoke, have carved a niche for themselves in a distinct class as orators. The range of subjects they chose and presentation of their thoughts have not only been published by the periodicals of their times but also have been preserved in…
Yoga spell continues
June 21, 2017Mysuru is agog this week having hosted the historic event of World Yoga Day (June 21), mainly to lay claim to Guinness Record of organising more than 60,000 participants at a single venue performing 21 asanas, a selection from the list of asanas that has come down from Sage Pathanjali, whose yogasutras date back to…
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