The air is abuzz with claims of the incumbent government at the Centre, in the august company of the State government, in addressing the enduring problem of unemployment by creating the frequently revised number of jobs stated as so many millions in both organised and unorganised sectors of the economy even as those claims continue…

Given the rising pitch and volume of verbal exchanges among the powers that be at the helm in most countries of the world in virtually all the regions of the planet in particular and among the people of respective countries in general, specially our nation of multiple socio-economic-cultural-ethnic diversity, one is obliged to turn to…

The ratio of urban and rural populations to the country’s total headcount has begun to be noticed with more than academic interest even as the number of cities, their spread of land, density of residents as well as their personal transport vehicles are all rising at a rate never witnessed in the past. Bengalureans who…

People of every generation, particularly the land’s senior citizens, can be heard expressing their disillusionment about the people of their succeeding generation, the section of youth in particular, on a multitude of counts, specially their disrespect and disfavour of virtually every aspect of the land’s time-honoured customs and traditions. The remarks by the elderly, downgrading…

Thanks to the two mutually competing factors namely, the limited total geographical area of the country and its steadily expanding population, resulting in gradually declining land needs per citizen, the issues of sharing the available spaces in their different make-up such as agricultural land, industrial establishments, forest cover, urban territories, hilly areas, deserts, barren lands,…

The countries of the world continue to be divided into two major categories, namely developed and developing. The latter class of countries, including India, earlier were wearing the uncomplimentary identity as underdeveloped. This seemingly honourable portrayal of these countries from under-developed to developing owes it to the patronising outlook of the functionaries in  high posts…

Addressing a gathering comprising representatives of business fraternity, both from India and many countries across the world at the Global Business Meet in the nation’s capital last week, the land’s Prime Minister didn’t hide his pride in saying, despite the opinion expressed in some circles that India can never become a clean country, the nation’s…

The game of democracy as played by successive governments of the world’s largest in its category, purely judged by its headcount far in excess of any other country enjoying the privilege of adult franchise to elect people’s representatives as members of Legislative bodies to frame policies and implement them through action by the Executive wing,…

Having taken to the use of products made of plastic in their multiple avatars over several decades, the world is currently waging a losing war against the offending material. After reaching the pinnacle in its image as the most versatile and economical raw material in both industry domain and life of lay people, the now-known-to-all…

The saying, “It is not he who doesn’t have wealth that is poor, but it is he who desires more that is poor,” as a philosophy of life may neither go down well with the former nor convince the latter. We often hear from knowledgeable quarters that India is a rich country of poor people,…