The scale of corruption as well as the wealth that the corrupt in the country and elsewhere command seem to have sullied the image of money, the term believed to originate from a temple on one of Rome’s seven hills, where the mint of ancient Rome was located. It is said of water that not…

The earth’s biggest infrastructure is the earth itself, better say herself given the exalted position of mother in common parlance. In typical Indian families, mother has all the qualifications to be called their infrastructure living form that works, nay toils, for the cause of well-being of all members of the family, in both urban space…

Observing the growing population with unalloyed concern, Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), a British demographer and political economist, opined that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for human-beings. He also inferred that populations had a tendency to grow until the economically weaker sections suffered hardship, want…

Ancient scholars have written copiously on the intimate connect between water and life of all living forms, particularly in the case of human beings, animals and plants. In a verse taken from the script of one of those scholars, we learn that all living beings subsist on food and food is produced by water, sourced…

Policy statements such as open defecation-free Bharat have tended to sound like slogans that not only the top brass in administration but also leaders of all hues addressing their captive audiences as well as target sections in the land’s population through all available forms of media take fascination to include the expression, ostensibly to make…

Earning a steady income and ease of doing business are the watchwords of the world of players who are identified as entrepreneurs. Institutes of Managements (IIMs) and those training aspirants for learning the nuances of business as well as management for the Bachelor and Master Degrees in Business Management (BBM, MBA) have invited the remark…

Only 19 countries in the world are full democracies at present, according to a report sourced to the Intelligence Unit of The Economist, an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper, founded by James Wilson (1805-1860) in 1843. Democracy Index, brought out annually by its editorial group with office in London looks at Governments around the world and…

The expression unity in diversity has been heard ad nauseam by the land’s urban literati as public speakers of all hues take fascination to add a bit of glory to the country’s image. While the unity part of the popular slogan has just begun to be suspect, the diversity part on many counts seems to…

To dissent and criticise the actions of the Government with disdain being the prerogative of the Opposition in the elected legislative bodies from the nation’s Parliament down to Gram Panchayats as well as ULBs (Urban Local Bodies) as the hallmark of Democracy in the country, to praise their leaders of the respective political parties in…

Awareness-driven awakening and advertisement- driven allurement by various Departments of Government and manufacturing sector players offering a wide variety of consumer goods respectively bring home response from the target sections among the land’s masses in diverse extent and nature. Mysuru’s Urban Local Body and the city’s residents, estimated numerically at more than 1.3 million together…