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…
No small wonder, either readers of dailies published in different languages, including English or viewers of programmes in their millions blared by various television channels across the country throughout the year don’t get exposed to products manufactured in two sectors that command monetary value of production in astronomical proportions. One, of course, is the sector…
They met, by chance. Their eyes met in no time. Visual communication yielded place to some stray verbal shorts. The shots were heard more at the giving end than the receiving end. The seeds of love were laid in a fertile soil. These preliminaries, happening in a jiffy as it were, ended in the two…
Blessed are the members of society, called upon to deliver discourses before their captive audiences, particularly the senior citizens who, with their major presence, are common sight at all evening congregations in Mysuru. The rhetoric of their discourses and the eloquence of delivery, outmatching the speeches of chief guests at functions got up under the…
A century has sailed by since the luxury steamship RMS Titanic met its catastrophic end in the North Atlantic, plunging two miles to the ocean floor after side-swiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Maybe, the term iceberg was understood in its proper perspective only after that historic event took place in the early morning…
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