A Mysuru-based popular and committed promoter of wellness of citizens, irrespective of their social identities in society, has come out with a new slogan, read philosophy, in place of the time-honoured advisory “Prevention is better than cure.” His message, delivered with unalloyed conviction, free from high-sounding rhetoric, before audiences drawn to events in the city…
Governance Vs administration
April 20, 2017An oft-heard comment is that India is the world’s best administered country, although with the rider that it is so only on paper. On the home front, voices have been aired in the circles of State Legislature that the present administration in Karnataka is the worst in its six-plus decades of history. While the incumbent…
No television, no cinema?!
April 19, 2017Places of worship hosting discourses by seasoned performers of Harikatha before audiences comprising listeners in different age-groups have witnessed a makeover to events marked by glitz and glitter, although reports in the dailies, including those published in the city, unfailingly highlight the devotion and fervour displayed by the large crowds thronging at those places. The…
Re-inventing the wheel
April 18, 2017Voices are being aired on select occasions that quality of research in India has descended from great heights to abysmal depths. The verdict originating to both informed circles with credentials and also lay people with no proven entitlement to pass remarks, either in adulation or berating, may be mere conjecture or stork truism. In this…
Battling bereavement
April 17, 2017The dictator of the erstwhile Soviet Union (1878-1953) is quoted having said: One death is a tragedy; One million deaths is a statistic. The currently estimated figure of average annual number of deaths per 1,000 people in India, namely 7.3, given the expression crude death rate, alongside the dictator’s quote, does little mitigate the sledge-hammer…
Polyglots Vs Pundits
April 15, 2017Vying for adding the land’s languages to the list of official languages, numbering 22 as of now and according classical status, eight having already emerged, seems to have taken back seat currently in the circles of both pundits and activists in different regions of the country. There is no guarantee that the craving for both…
Love at first sight
April 14, 2017When it comes to describe the arresting looks of both divine characters and mortals, poets as well as writers of prose in our times pale into nothingness. Creating eye-catching frescoes as well as irresistible sculptures by the land’s people who lived in times long past, which have endured the fury of nature and marauders over…
Brittle bonds
April 13, 2017Contemporary society is witnessing like never before snapping of harmonious relationships among the citizens. Before dwelling on this delicate-yet-delightful subject, one is prompted to remind fellow-citizens about their unabated onslaught on every elements of nature, including sand mass from river tracks, an act that has relegated the relationship between humans and nature to a point…
Reckoning with realities
April 12, 2017India’s prodigious scholar Adi Shankara, in the short span of life that ended when he was barely 32 years young in eighth century, is featured in many witty dialogues with his ardent disciples and peers. In one such instance, a disciple sought to be enlightened by the peerless philosopher about myth and realities in life….
Cost of absence
April 11, 2017Students facing public examinations both at school-final stage and college as well as University levels are required to be present in the classroom showing recorded attendance for at least 75 per cent of the total number of working days. The relevant department has been announcing in the media on the eve of all public examinations,…
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