Title: At The Crossroads – How to Make The Right Choice for a Successful Career Author: Shankar Bellur Category: Career Counselling Genre: Non fiction Publisher: Adhyyan Books Pages: 184 (paperback) Price: Rs. 399 The quality of life depends on the choice made at every critical phase of our lives. A wrong decision made, for any…
Nrutya Samarpana and Somashree Awards presentation ceremony
January 19, 2020By Kala Rasika Many people have different ways of expressions and different actions while paying tributes to their departed father and Guru. Vidushi Srilakshmi Kumar has her own way to express gratitude and salute her father Kalashree late T.N. Somashekhar and Founder of Shri Umamaheshwara Nrutya Kalakshetra Trust in 1951. Srilakshmi Kumar, an established dancer…
Calendar Chronicles
January 18, 2020By M.T. Yogesh Kumar A calendar is a system of organising days for social, religious, commercial or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A calendar is also a physical record of such a system. Everyone looks into a calendar at one point of…
Masculine and Feminine Gods
January 16, 2020By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In mythology, generally, masculinity refers to the human desire to dominate and be territorial like the proverbial alpha male. In a positive sense it protects, in a negative sense it controls. Femininity is associated with nourishment, with feeding others (in a positive sense) and consuming others…
‘Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was made President of India as a reward for building Muslim vote-bank of illegal immigrants for Congress’
January 14, 2020Thus spake Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa Acclaimed Novelist and Saraswathi Samman awardee Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa has said that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was made the President of India in return for his efforts to consolidate the Muslim vote-bank in favour of Congress party. Replying to questions by scribes at a press conference called at his residence in…
Why only lawyers can understand Legal Language ?
January 13, 2020By Susheela Srinivasan and Dr. B. Shakira Jabeen English in legal documents in India is so unique that it goes by special nomenclatures — legal parlance, legal English, legalese, etc. This form of language is used in the Courts, legal documents, rules, bye-laws, judgments, Bills, Acts and amendments. A lawyer has to read and interpret…
Quick fix for Positivity
January 13, 2020Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art and science which was developed over 3,000 years ago. It was designed to help balance energies or Chi within a space in order to promote harmony, good health and fortune. Its principles are based on the Taoist understanding of nature. Good Feng Shui in your home can help…
Farewell to Tokyo
January 12, 2020By Girija Madhavan A few months into a new diplomatic post, normally of three years, I would settle into a comfort zone, at ease with the local language and customs. As time wore on, a familiar angst would appear, “Where next?” Our stay in Japan, where my husband, A. Madhavan, had been posted as Ambassador…
A historical perspective of India’s socio-political churning
January 12, 2020Title: Awakening Bharat Mata – The Political Beliefs of The Indian Right Author: Swapan Dasgupta Pages: 428 Price: Rs.699 Publisher: Penguin Random House India Ltd. (2019) By R. Chandra Prakash The title of the book says it all. This is about the socio-political transformation in, what Hindus call this motherland, Bharat Mata. It is about…
Music in the AIR
January 11, 2020Hale Radio Haaki Haadu Keluva… Maja Maadutha Preethi Varthe Keluva… goes the song from Kichcha Sudeep’s Kannada blockbuster Kempegowda.A morose atmosphere can be enlivened by music and radio plays an integral part of music even now amidst the onslaught of social media and the World Wide Web. The small and nondescript radio, sitting at the…















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