India’s demographic profile, as foreseen by research teams pursuing population studies, is heading to be dominated by urbanities. The pace of that event is picking unprecedented trend. The renowned British Physicist, Stephen Hawking, has been warning about the perils of relentless addition to human headcount on planet earth as a whole, which according to him…
Doling out money to the needy struggling in dire circumstances and food to the hungry with no means of assuaging hunger, invariably as charity, is a time-honoured practice in the land, but a tradition that is on the wane. The slogan “There is no free lunch out there,” common in the western countries, dominated by…
Global rating agencies, keenly watching the goings on in countries across the world and more so the performance of the respective governments as a regulator resorting to enacting laws, ostensibly to keep the citizens on track, have been placing India near the bottom of the scale worked out on the basis of different sets of…
Having ungrudgingly neglected according importance and attention to quality of life, we find ourselves pre-occupied with concerns of quality applied to material matters namely a) consumer durables, b) electronic gadgets including mobile phones, c) dresses, d) food products as well as raw materials including perishables consumed daily, e) possessions such as two-wheelers as well as…
A former President the United States of America, making news of his extra-marital relations, as reported in the media even during the times he adorned the high post, was asked by a reporter about his foreign relations, either innocently or with some mischievous intent of tickling the VIP. Unfazed by the unexpected, maybe embarrassing, question,…
Seeking company of others in childhood and adulthood, driven by varied expectations makes a fascinating study. To say that in the former case hardly any pre-determined rules of the game as it were marks the effort amounts to saying the obvious. The first day’s scene of kids mingling disdainfully in the now-common play schools should…
In the opinion of a thinker all that we see is not real (such as the mirror image of anyone who stands before the reflecting sheet of glass) and all that we hear is not true (maybe, such as reports in dailies, barring exceptions). From scholars we learn that Adi Shankara, the eighth century exponent…
Digging into the pages of history we can pick and choose from a long list of legendary figures comprising eminent scholars, kings, saints, philosophers, statesmen, warriors, composers of lyrics with everlasting messages, singers capturing the hearts of people of their times, creators of intricate stone carvings that have endured for centuries, authors of literary works…
The four-column-wide caption, reading “6 crore seed balls to be tossed in State during this monsoon” published in a daily early this week must have generated euphoria in the minds of most readers of that news. The matter, carried in one of the inside pages, along with a picture of girl students of a Mysuru-based…
Role of citizens in ensuring the much-desired good governance doesn’t seem to have been either recognised or appreciated, far less accepted by the citizenry, unarguably the sole beneficiary of that task exclusively loaded on the government of the day. On their part, successive governments, including the incumbent Union Government, present custodian of a 33-party coalition,…
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