The idiom If wishes were horses, beggars would ride, traced to a collection of Scottish proverbs about 1628, seems to mistakenly divert attention to horses and beggars, masking the message that if wishing could make things materialise, then even the most destitute people would have access to everything they wanted. Further, the veiled insult hurdled…

Law-making in the land during ancient times and also in later periods, including present times makes a fascinating study. Both the monarchs of Kingdoms as well as Chieftans of yesteryears enjoying command over their territories wielding weapons and the ruling powers of our times are known to enure order by enacting laws, mostly as a…

Not many seem to have turned their attention to the issue of population control raised by the incumbent Prime Minister in his address on the occasion of this year’s Independence Day delivered before the large gathering, including school-bound children by their impressive turnout, on the open space facing the iconic Red Fort in the National…

Not believing in the existence of God as super power concerned with fates and actions of human beings (or even other life forms such as animals) and outright rejection of the belief that any deities exist are diverse views on God per se that may not be within the grasp of lay people while Philosophers…

The air in the land is abuzz with people in various circles and varied background bestowing their views on a plethora of problems at which the successive administrations seem to be taking pot-shots, rather than getting into the act of addressing them pro-actively. Even as the country’s economy has tended to be sagging, particularly its…

Hordes of tourists have come and gone after delighting themselves with the glitz and glamour marking the just-concluded, nay celebrated, Navaratri festival dating back to ancient times more popularly known as Dasara of four centuries vintage. The administration has deservedly earned unalloyed praise for organising the show free from any disturbing incidents, except for some…

The term city owes its origin to an era of unknown antiquity even as some 20 cities that emerged during that era have turned tourist destinations in our times. All had been well with cities across the world until recent past, their residents relishing their living environment marked by comfort and convenience with respect to…

Splurging public funds by the Governments of the day both at the Centre and in the States across the country seems to have not been bestowed the concern that is imperative for all time, especially so in the present situation of rising fiscal deficit (reflecting the amount of cash that the Government owes to its…

The years of schooling, beginning nowadays at the tender age of three, ending at the level of graduation, followed by years to obtain post-graduate as well as doctoral degrees awarded by the nation’s 973 Universities and nearly 45,000 colleges, are expected to create competence in diverse callings, mainly to be able to earn a livelihood….

While English language is a legacy that the land’s literati owe to the British rule for several decades and Hindi is the tongue of about one-third of the country’s people, all the languages spoken by its masses reportedly number 1,562, making India unsurpassed by any country across the world for its multilingual diaspora. Classical language…