Ancient cities such as Paataliputra, adjacent to Patna city of our times, built by Magadha ruler more than 25 centuries ago, according to chroniclers are known to have been centres of both economic prosperity and rich cultures lasting for many centuries, attracting both scholars and traders from distant regions beyond the shores of the sub-continent…

Food security and food safety figure in the columns of dailies presenting a number of issues related to the two distinct subjects raised in circles of literati, only to be read by people at large, some feeling concerned and the rest resting unconcerned, the latter kind being convinced that the successive Governments often come out…

The days following the announcement of public examination results, particularly flashing names of students, along with their photographs, even images of parents in celebrating mode and mood in dailies of all hues are marked by reporters accosting the celebrity rank-holders giving them an opportunity to reveal the enormous effort behind scoring high marks, in fact…

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act, enacted by the nation’s Parliament on August 4, 2009, describing the modalities and importance of Free and Compulsory education for children between the age of 6 and 14 years in the country under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution, joining…

The numbers, natures and levels of the problems bugging the individuals, their families, society’s different sections and the nation, not to ignore the world at large, seem to be witnessing an unrelenting increase, adding to those remaining unaddressed or unresolved by the affected parties concerned, without meaning to deny the attempts and efforts to identify…

The elderly of families in well-marked sections of society made it a point in days past asking the school and college-bound youngsters to earmark a few minutes before bedtime, to write the daily diary, a practice that they had themselves cultivated as a habit. The intent behind that prescription as well as that practice seem…

The nation’s aam janata, preoccupied with expressing and exchanging their views, some in formal circles and the rest in gossip circles, on this’n’that of the Parliamentary polls held from the first half of April to the second half of May this year, may have gone back to their daily chores while political commentators, both seasoned…

Avenues of livelihood and aspirants for jobs in the land in terms of both variety and numbers have mutually kept pace, obviously the latter outpacing the former by miles in our times unlike the scenario a few decades ago. The then male section of the country’s headcount, accounting for half the total didn’t have to…

The land’s citizens, after soaking themselves with the rhetoric sumptuously served by the contestants in the polls to the nation’s Parliament and Legislative Assemblies of few States over the past weeks ending with the formation of Governments and choice of Ministers in the respective Cabinets have moved from talking phase to tasking phase. The Prime…

Writings of the land’s scholars, philosophers, social reformers, poets, authors of prose, not to forget the kings commanding people’s respect for their acts of benevolence featured in the narratives in the form of stories and anecdotes, all belonging to a distant past, prompts one to remember them respectfully as ancestors extraordinaire, with their only mission…