The news of a leopard prowling around in the Infosys campus, north of Mysuru city, was not yet in public domain. So when the invite came for a dinner on the lawns of an industrialist-friend in the neighbourhood of Infosys, I willingly agreed to join the guests. Being winter, outdoor get-together was rather chilling but…
Why We Die? Ask Venki Ramakrishnan
January 7, 2025Last Saturday I received an invite for a ‘unique book discussion’ on a journey into mortality. The book is ‘Why We Die’ by Venki Ramakrishnan, winner of the Nobel Prize. Yes, indeed the book is unique as it will reveal to the reader the secret of death — Why we die. In Katha Upanishad, Nachiketa…
Musings on New Year 2025: What ails once Tourist Paradise Brindavan Gardens?
January 3, 2025If X-Mas is here can New Year be far behind? Before you are done with your X-Mas cake, the New Year beckons you with whiskey bottles for a bash. Revelry begins with good news of New Year resolutions and ends with bad news of drunken brawls and road accidents. These two days of the Christian…
Siddaramaiah Art Centre : ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯ ಕಲಾಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ
December 30, 2024Time Siddaramaiah became a Philosopher-Statesman Congress MLA from Mysuru’s Chamaraja Constituency K. Harishgowda has ‘demanded’ that the present Princess Road, popularly known as KRS Road (Krishnaraja Sagar Road) be named after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. He made this demand on Nov. 13, 2024 while presiding over a function to lay the foundation stone for the new…
An Innocent Prime Minister: Dr. Manmohan Singh – Scholar, Statesman
December 27, 2024When India shining under Atal Bihari Vajpayee came under total eclipse with the shock defeat of BJP in 2004 Lok Sabha polls, it was a great celebration for Congress Party under Sonia Gandhi as President of All India Congress Committee (AICC). Despite legal hurdles and adverse national sentiment, Sonia stood waiting at the threshold to…
Congress President’s new weapon to attack Modi
December 25, 2024According to a report in The Hindu, the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has said that the Election Commission of India (ECI), though a quasi-judicial body, is not behaving independently. The provocation was the amendment of Rule 93(2)(a) of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 by the Union Law Ministry. This amendment has restricted the type…
A Winter Session of Despair: Democracy or Anarchy?
December 21, 2024You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.”— Marie Curie When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don’t become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to…
Power & Glory of our Constitution: Debate was a Charade
December 17, 2024The Congress party asked for it and it got it in full measure — The Parliament Debate on the “Glorious Journey of 75 Years of the Constitution of India.” The debate was initiated by the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday. Those who have seen and read Parliamentary debates on Constitutional amendments and issues in…
‘Decolonisation’ & Rewriting Indian History: Rational approach expected
December 15, 2024I received a WhatsApp message with a photograph yesterday (14.12.2024) from an ex-army Major General which set me thinking about the way we Indians are. I think the reason for all our problems as a Democratic country is because the way we are — tolerant in the face of intolerance, compromising in the face of…
My thoughts on the world we live in
December 12, 2024“If you feel pain, you’re alive. If you feel other people’s pain, you’re a human being.”—Leo Tolstoy Newspaper reading is a reminder that man has learnt nothing from his past nor from his present situation. He seems to be repeating the same mistakes and as a consequence suffer. Let me not go back to millennium…
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