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…
Occasions witnessing speakers of all hues fantasising about the land’s glorious past and the legends associated on one side and platforms from where people are face-to-face with the land’s literati worrying about the fast deteriorating quality of life across different sections of society on the other side are being reported in the dailies. Sandwiched between…
Broadly speaking, democracy, such as the system familiar to the land’s literati, per force needs politicians whose presence in the land is expanding in geometric progression with each passing year, if not each passing day. Considering the interface between democracy as a system of governing a country and the politicians, more so their sway over…
The greater part of the land’s population, currently estimated to be on the cusp of crossing the figure of 135 crore, comprising those born in the 1990s, has reached a stage in their life representing a mix of capabilities to survive ranging from very poor to excellent, due to factors not-all-that unclear. We are well…
Parenting, both as a responsibility and duty, as prescribed in the land’s ancient texts, may have got morphed into an activity marked by the return-on-investment (ROI) principle in our days. Until not-too-long ago, certainly in rural parts, not begetting children in numbers as-near-as a dozen earned poor socio-economic-rating to the chief wage-earner and also his…
The age of a society in which its members not only firmly believed in but also assiduously adhered to the practice of pleasant conduct in both word and deed. The code of conduct, crystallising in the form of proverbs and idioms, apart from lyrical lines attributed to the wise such as Sarvajna of the 16th…
Bengalureans of a not-too-past-times could be heard joyfully talking about the merriment that the city offered seamlessly. The salubrious weather of the metropolis, virtually a legacy that they got on a platter as it were, has suffered to an extent and in a manner that one cannot express in words. The open spaces such as…
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