The term shambles originally is said to be a word for slaughterhouse, now meaning “one heck of a mess.” On taking even a cursory look at our present day society in particular and the country, if not the world, in general, one cannot but recall the scene in which a parent would be telling his…

lay people, for whom having cash enough to meet the needs of daily life in particular and everything else contributing to hassle-free living in general matters most. In this backdrop, the other indices attributed to global rating agencies such as Human Development Index may partly close the aforementioned gap in the two perceptions. Ideally, not…

Everybody has a home, if not a house. Unarguably, home is the most private place for a person. People need safety and we feel safe, hopefully, in our homes. We can relax and forget about everything in this wonderful place. Is that why the proverb “East or West, Home is Best” sounds like music to…

The expression Dignity of Labour reflects the philosophy that all types of jobs are respected equally without belittling any of them. No occupation is considered superior and none of the jobs should be discriminated on any basis. Paradox or absurd, some jobs that cannot be postponed and the workforce engaged on them are called menial,…

Human being’s hypocrisy has once again come into the open. “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity,” says the British luminary George Bernard Shaw. In the debates on man-animal conflict, while the animal is portrayed as the villain, clarion…

Going by the norm prescribed by World Health Organisation (WHO) for people-to-doctors ratio for a country, the number of doctors in India at present has to increase tenfold. About 70,000 admissions to the Medical Colleges across the country reported for this academic year as well as the existing infrastructure for training them to be medical…

Both food preparations (dishes in thousands marked by awesome diversity) and manner of cooking (cuisine) them used to be closely linked to specific cultures and geographic regions. Cuisines used to be primarily dictated by the ingredients readily available locally in respective regions across the world. These time-honoured features are history in our times, thanks to…

According to the index of objects launched into outer space, maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, there were 4,987 satellites orbiting planet Earth at the start of this year. More than 16,000 previously launched objects are learnt to have decayed into Earth’s atmosphere. While these numbers, awesome as they are, may…

The army of members in the land’s Legislative field, who are contriving to get elected mostly by questionable means portray themselves as politicians, a misnomer indeed in the backdrop of the classical definition of the profession. Considering their conduct both in their various Houses such as Parliament, Legislative Assembly and Gram Panchayat as well as…

The English idiom Take for Granted succinctly represents the outlook of most people marked by underestimating the value of any of the things in use making life more comfortable than before, particularly the inventions as common as the telephone simply because it will always be available. The 16th century English proverb Necessity is the Mother…