Arranging the multitude of problems the country is beset with and also the actions for their solutions in their order of importance is all what prioritisation is about. The successive governments vested with the task of providing good governance during their respective terms since the time of starting the voyage of self-rule have toyed with…

Presenting the country’s budget in the Parliament for approval of the august house may be treated by the Finance Minister either as a serious exercise or a mere annual routine. But, for the Opposition, it is an occasion to go eloquent in bringing him down on his knees. On the part of the land’s people,…

The fascinating description of Mysore as the City of Palaces witnessed a change in its identity itself to Mysuru not too long ago. The city’s name as Heritage City, appearing in the media nowadays more prominently than before is perhaps a cover for its none-too-complimentary description as Pensioners’ Paradise, which has suffered a time-warp, prompting…

The issues that are bestowed attention by the administration, on and off, and generate reactions from various quarters of the land’s literati, sometimes vociferously, seem to be keeping both sides engaged, happily or otherwise, most of the time the controversial side to the issues remaining unresolved, only to reappear giving unending and sumptuous grist to…

Given the tally of the desirables and, more importantly the undesirables on a number of counts, specially the sharply changing profiles of the country in general and the elected representatives of the people in particular, one is prompted to invoke the idiom Between the devil and the deep blue sea, in the context of the…

Media coverage of the various matters relating to the country’s forests and their denizens, close to the heart of nature lovers, seems to have got stumped by reports of criminal acts by people at large and the ongoing verbal battles among the vote-seekers. Journos are getting unsolicited advisory by public speakers of all hues to…

One of the characters in the opera titled Much Ado About Nothing, attributed to the famed playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616), published in 1598, is portrayed as a clever man given to cracking witty jokes, often at the expense of his friends. One cannot be faulted to invoke the Bard and refer to the aforementioned humour-filled…

Thanks to the myriad products owing their design and emerging to arrest the attention of people in all walks of life in our times, particularly easy accessibility to comfort-loving urbanites, physical action in life from dawn to dusk as it were has yielded place to virtual push-button-driven living. The kitchen machine, popularly identified as the…

Aficionados of Mysuru City Corporation had taken a couple of years ago the laudable initiative to facilitate the rapidly expanding virtual army of footpath mobile canteen operators across the city’s 65 Wards, in consultation with an expert on the nuances of business from Kolkata. Intending to ease the crowding by the mobile canteen operators as…

Action relating to embarking upon any research programme, funded particularly by grants sourced to government, seems to be driven by the aim of getting the coveted doctorate degree, preferably from a University reputed in academic circles. The oft-heard lament about declining standards of research by both informed and not-so-informed that we occasionally come across in…