The land’s people at large revel themselves in identifying themselves first and others next by using a plethora of faiths, creeds, castes, lingo, region and what have you. Mercifully, the seniors in all these diverse and time-honoured classes earn their distinct identity by just one factor, the factor of age. Being portrayed as seniors, read…

Payment for work in cash or kind and employment with salary are written about copiously by cognoscenti viewing the connect between work and compensation through the prism of justice to both employer fraternity and employee. Government as the employer and babudom as employee are engaging one another in an unending interaction, the former pretending to…

Every generation has its task cut out in bequeathing the land’s time-honoured wealth comprising mainly the principles of live ‘n’ let live for enduring orderly life, far different from its contemporary features marked by countrywide unrest due to gross neglect of its duty to mould minds of the succeeding generation. Given the thirty-year span that…

Well-being of every society in particular and the world at large in general owes in no small measure to visionaries in successive generations as well as the anonymous workforce lending the hand of implementing the plans of progress in its widest meaning. Digging into pages of human history, one can make a glossary of such…

The annual rate of increase in the country’s total headcount currently seems to have come down significantly compared to the years some two decades ago. The rate of yearly addition to the mass of earlier year(s) and the actual increment of more than one crore every year need to be reckoned together for a clear…

The country’s culture, marked by customs and traditional practices which have endured over centuries and followed to an awe-inspiring extent as evident all over the country, is testimony to the resilience of its past generations in the face of a plethora of threats by marauding aliens, one among them identified as iconoclasts causing destruction of…

The issue of number of hours Government employees are required to work in a week of six working days crops up in public debates on and off while in case of industrial workforce the employers at large have been following the eight-hour-per-day regimen. The more important issue of the output by each employee, particularly in…

Poets who wrote lyrics in glorifying nature and also glamorous dames seem to have been outperformed by both reporters of dailies and readers who write in the ‘Voice of the Readers’ columns by describing, often with graphics, the dismal state of roads, highlighting the steadily enlarging and deepening pits, inappropriately called potholes. Mercifully or otherwise,…

In Physics, energy is the quantitative property transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object. The law of conservation of energy states that energy can be converted in form. Common forms of energy include electric, chemical, radiant (carried by light) and thermal. Mass and energy are closely related,…