By T.J.S. George So what were the most indiscreet, absurd, ridiculous and damfoolish statements of 2018? Not that anything this year can overshadow the all-time record set by Mulayam Singh Yadav. Remember his justification of rapes on the ground that boys will be boys? He exposed his Stone Age mentality again when he said, “We…

The current state of distress bugging the land’s diaspora cannot be described meaningfully in mere words. The urbanites may have brought it on them by their myriad indiscreet acts while the rustics have it handed out to them as a legacy. The former sections in the population may find avenues to assuage their stressful life…

Portraying the female as the weaker sex, in whatever sense of the term, has lately tended to sound anomalous. Perhaps, the feature of males outnumbering the females in the land’s current population may uniquely support that time-honoured perception, while many other facts seem to falsify the off-quoted uncomplimentary comparison. Even as the issue of raising…

Attitude of the young sections in the world at large as well as across the country to life, markedly volatile in its ways has tended to mentally disturb the seniors for good, bad and indifferent reasons, covering psychological, economical and social factors, in random order of importance, not to forget the clear difference in the…

The treatise on financial matters attributed to Vishnu Gupta of 2,500 years vintage, also referred to by names Kautilya and Chanakya, one of the officials in the court of King Chandragupta Maurya, a copy of which on palm leaf discovered by a Mysuru-based researcher B.V. Shastri in the city’s Oriental Research Institute more than 100…

The Kannada idiom Mane kattinodu, Maduve maadinodu, with the telling message of what portends anyone who embarks on the two landmark events of life, namely a) Owning a dwelling by spending on its construction and b) Giving away one’s daughter in marriage, loaded with the sentimental term kanyadan, particularly by strictly following all the rituals…

The two factors that are close to the heart of human populations, namely (a) Technology as the wheel of perceptible change equated to progress and (b) Tradition as the unwritten code to which people cling as time passes make a fascinating study to historians, sociologists and even the lay sections of society bent on pondering…

Sending the country’s two high face value (denomination) currencies to the museum as it were on November 8, 2016, reportedly resulted in nearly 86 percent of transactional cash with people vanishing in public domain. The plight of those who needed cash in currency of the entire range of low denominations filled the columns of dailies…

Public speakers of both kinds (a) Those who have keenly followed the history of the land’s regions hosting people speaking Kannada and (b) Those who draw from their speeches while addressing crowds that gather during celebration of various festivals in the State take fascination to recall the reign of many kings, identified as dynasties, glorifying…

Medical attention by doctors, both general practitioners and specialists as well as super-specialists (whose expertise lies in a well-defined narrow area of medicine) to (a) Patients who can convey about their affliction to the whitecoat-attired fraternity with clarity (even with the help of technical terminology) and (b) Patients who cannot disclose their health problems, leaving…