Budgetary provision for healthcare by the country’s Union Government as well as its counterparts in the States and Union Territories as a percentage of the total in the economy may be talked about routinely in circles of analysts of the health of the land’s economy while the issues of meeting medical expenses by a family,…
Although the age of the planet Earth as well as its inanimate constituents such as mainly rocks and fossils is determined chemically, the precision varies in millions of years. The figures currently doing rounds oscillate between 3,700 and 4,300 million years as the age of planet Earth. The length of time since the planet first…
Issues of appropriateness of attiring, particularly outside the confines of one’s home as well as different circumstances have been pursued in various circles lately with an alert media taking note of the voices aired in public domain and reporting without taking sides. Lot of water has flowed under the bridge since the school managements got…
An episode featuring Birbal, the brainy quick wit during the reign of Moghal Emperor Akbar in 16th century also features crows, the not-much-adored humble bird, wearing on its wings as it were the derogatory identity as a natural scavenger. The storyline, once again throwing spotlight on Birbal for his unchallenged and spontaneous wit, is about…
Not many may be aware of the grind of the crew bringing to the doorstep before the break of dawn dailies with news, reports, articles, advertisements to herald the day in the life of the land’s literati whose headcount is anybody’s guess. The print media, in the wake of a multitude of challenges and threats…
Unfazed by the grim reality of the last citizen in the land having no access to food in a measure adequate to keep the soul and limbs ticking together, sources both in the government and informed circles take fascination to play around with their perception of food production in the country, its monetary value, extent…
Beliefs, blind or otherwise, are personal. Government of Karnataka figured in the media a few weeks ago mulling introduction of a law in the State banning the practice of blind beliefs. The proposed measure was not pursued to its logical end, either success for the government or getting shelved for good. The believers, comprising the…
A narrative portraying the time of Nero, the ruler of Rome during the first century, authored by 1905 Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz and published in instalments by dailies during 1895 in Poland, came out in book form in 1896 under the title ‘Quo Vadis?’ meaning ‘Where are you going’? in Latin. The backdrop to…
The grim side to the matter relating to school drop-out seems to have sidelined many important points both reflecting the inputs into the schooling pool by the players, including teachers, administrators, litterateurs as well as parents and resulting from their below par functioning, barring exceptions. Placing emphasis on the volatility of the rate of drop-outs…
No small wonder that women, who have made a seamless entry into the world of men by taking to callings from which they mostly kept away until not too long ago, have not taken to the virtually male-dominated, artful profession of cartooning. Still greater wonder that women have rarely figured in the caricatures drawn by…
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