Achievers in different fields pursing relentlessly their professions and public speakers addressing their captive audiences from various platforms don’t seem to be giving up their penchant to lament the steep decline of standards in all walks of life, the most favoured area of human activity being education, particularly in the domain of Universities across the…

If we are concerned with facing the much-talked-about water crisis across the country in general and Karnataka State in particular, we have to explore the few options in combating the problem. The clinching point of the matter is that the party creating the crisis and the party that has to take up the task of…

The academics as well as professionals in the vast field of nutrition make it a point to emphasise the importance of balanced diet and the rich rewards by following their mantra that seem to fall on deaf ears, particularly in the camp of gourmets. The key issue that is missed in prescribing the set of…

The acronym GDP for Gross Domestic Product is more commonly featured in public domain nowadays than in times past. A publication of International Monetary Fund (IMF) states that GDP measures the monetary value of final goods and services —that are bought by the final user —produced in a country in a given period of time,…

The nation’s Lok Sabha is heading to be a reality for the 17th time in a span of seven decades of its rule as a democracy. The elderly may feel tickled if they are reminded about their referring to the number 17 in days past. Their humour was lost on students not crossing the bar…

The education sector, primary and secondary schools in particular, continues to be the whipping boy as it were for its shortcoming on many counts, not to forget the phenomenon of school drop out showing no signs of abating in the State. The teacher fraternity who have been in the background, escaping the assault by the…

Three players are engaging each other in a national game. The land’s masses constitute the major party, diverse as they are on every conceivable count, not to ignore the languages they use to express their thoughts and opinions about others, unmindful of however unsavoury their ways of making their presence noticed in public domain. The…

Vedavyasa and Valmiki stand out as most ancient authors of scripts which represent a rich legacy of literary wealth with messages that are relevant for all times. Their successors in later generations up to modern times who lived in different regions of the country in the range of monarchs to mendicants such as Ashoka and…

The pace of life and ways of residents in urban spaces across the country seem to have left the senior citizens stranded and dazed. The gen next has neither the frame of mind nor time to bestow attention to their elderly, euphemistic identity of the oldies. The scenario of that change that is hard to…

The time-honoured outlook of respectfully remembering teachers, loaded with a deep sense of sentiment and raising one’s teacher to the rank of divinity (Gurudevobhava) seems to have faded to the point of vanishing in our times. The expression “Home is the child’s first school and mother the first teacher” (Maneye modala shale, thaayiye modala guru)…