People’s President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931-2015), the nation’s President during 2002 – 2007, known for his humility, had expressed a wish to be remembered as a teacher. The distant past era, marked by the feature of schooling and education as synonymous, unlike in our times, hosted teachers fondly remembered by their wards as friends,…

The expression doing rounds in the circle of officials of the State Government that the day of retirement, virtually the D-Day as a certainty sounds like an adage. They are a mix of those who look forward, reasonably gleefully, to that happening, some who take it as a fait accompli and the rest dreading the…

Grandma knows best what is best for grandpa. After years, nay decades of togetherness, marked by mutual caring, the duo recollects with mixed feelings, the ups and downs faced in their long journey of life. Their dismay is at being not included in the family fold, particularly in urban spaces witnessing predominance of nuclear families,…

The country has hosted in the past a galaxy of statesmen, philosophers, orators, authors, academics, monks and also luminaries remembered for their lyrically expressed words of wisdom in many languages with or without script. Whatever is presently available in libraries of institutions and personal possessions of the country’s literati may be a small part of…

The expression Let noble thoughts come to us from all directions, drawn from Rig Veda and often quoted by scholars, juxtaposed to the matter that one gets to read in dailies portraying the goings on in the country nowadays prompts one to cite the line from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar that Marc Antony uttered at…

Heat and dust, one more than the other, generated in public domain across the country, to a greater degree in Karnataka, witnessed high and low in the matter of two main issues concerning agriculture sector of the country in general and plight of the farming fraternity in particular. Both issues have been talked about on…

The land’s history of several centuries, both recorded by chroniclers and narrated in the epics as well as various ancient texts provides glimpses of its past glory raising thoughts in some circles of literati on whether India of our times regains its now-not-in-use name Bharatha Khanda in their lifetime. Their aspiring for that highly improbable…

Readers of newspapers, both broadsheets and tabloids, publishing informative and illuminating articles on health issues and also valuable guidelines in capsule form hinting which diet protects wellness of the body and what hurts the proper functioning of its different organs are beholden to the periodicals. If only a minuscule fraction of the reader mass take…

Reports appearing in various modes of media, loaded with data citing official sources and also opinions of those who count for their incisive analysis of public affairs through highly readable articles seem to generate both hope and despair for the world’s largest, read most populous democracy. The detractors of virtually every administration, no matter which…

The thought of keeping fit as a fiddle seems to dawn on people at large only on realising the hard fact that the fiddle has already shown signs of cracks on its body and the strings not obeying the commands of the player drawing the bow back and forth. All the episodes of eating the…