The countdown phase of the nation’s election process for its 17th Lok Sabha to take shape has moved to the countup phase, if the term merits to be coined. The vote-seeking aspirants for the privilege of membership of the august house have begun the all-too-familiar five-yearly tamasha of first wangling a ticket as a nominee…

Armed with a dagger (khukri), natives of Nepal, Gurkhas monopolised the sector of Chowkidars in the country until not too long back. They were mostly incognito in city spaces, such as in Mysuru during major part of the day, taking charge of keeping vigil in their defined territories from dusk to dawn. Their current identity…

The nation’s Parliament is heading to be a reality for the 17th time in a span of seven decades. Its 543 members-to-be have presented themselves before the electorate mass of about 900 million eligible voters. Two nominated members, to represent the Anglo-Indian section of the country’s population, are to make up the total membership of…

The air is abuzz with more and more people expressing their disenchantment about the soaring costs of medicare in general and the hospital bills in particular. A widely circulated broadsheet has just published a feature on the plight of patients under the eye-catching caption Hospitals prefer profit over patients. At the time of formally awarding…

The term development, having been understood as prosperity in its widest meaning for all time past, merits a revisit, given the devastation it has wrought in the country’s metropolises, taking the case of Bengaluru to drive home the point. Describing the State’s capital as Asia’s fastest growing city until not too long ago mocks at…

The two parties on either side of the time-honoured-but-now-gone-out-of-favour photographic camera, namely the person(s) to be shot and the photographer happened to be the same, the device having the facility of timer allowing time for the latter party to join the former in a matter of a few seconds long before the phenomenon of selfie,…

Impeccable implementation of the laws in Israel, zero-garbage open spaces including roads in Singapore, people’s innate desire to drill like the armed forces in Germany of not too long past and such models reflecting adherence to discipline as national character of respective countries have been talked about in the circles of literati in our land….

The head of a division in a global institution pursuing the cause of populations bugged by pesky poverty wrote in his article published in a widely circulated daily that inclusiveness was the key to ending poverty permanently. He also remarked that in May 2018 India lost its unfortunate title of being the nation with largest…

Bouncing with boundless energy, unaware of the gradually changing world of toddlers into living with restrictions stipulated by the seniors in the family, the child unwittingly progresses to adulthood encountering more restrictions dictated by the uncaring society. The realisation of the imperatives of preparing in advance to sustain physical fitness, mental stability, disorders, diseases and…

Extramarital affairs and intramarital aberrations are so commonplace all over the world that prompts one to wonder at their news value, given their appearance in cold print in dailies of all hues, including this one. The only difference in the way the related episodes earn space column of news papers seems to be that the…