The world view of the goings on in the largest (headcount-wise) Democracy globally and its people makes a fascinating read. If one takes the trouble of recording such views, expressed by both persons with opportunity to know first hand the happenings and those who either read reports in the media or hear from others during…

We are in the age of claiming various rights, many of which are enshrined in the country’s Constitution, adopted on January 26, 1950 as the guide to carry on administration by the government according to globally accepted principles of democracy. When the functionaries as well as the land’s various section in the population deviate from…

India’s teeming millions, in the eyes of some keen observers abroad, rightly seem to be a complex mix of people marked by profiles in a range that cannot be described exhaustively. They are in classifications of (a) persons, (b) important persons, (c) very important persons, (VIPs) and (d) Very very important persons (VVIPs), constituting the…

We are in the era of the country’s youth making a bold entry into the world of business. They have given a fancied name to their initiative. People who read reports in the land’s dailies, even irregularly, cannot hide their wonder listening from the avid readers about the goings on virtually sans any flare or…

In the context of expressing love for one’s motherland, one is prompted to cite an ancient verse dating back to the times of Thretayuga during which the episodes featured in the epic Ramayana, attributed to Sage Valmiki, are narrated. The verse, part of which reads Janani Janmabhumischa Swargadapi Gariyasi (mother and motherland are greater than…

The life span of human beings granted as four score and twenty makes it to one hundred years. The fact that the rare instances of one among the population not only reaching that magical age and also crossing the bar is bestowed attention by one or the other daily, many times with some details bearing…

If one ponders about the difference between the terms job and calling, as applied to the teachers, the outcome may throw some light on the activity of teachers, many among whom may see it as a means to make a living, obviously for earning wages, while a select section among them see it as a…

The goings on nature would surely continue to go on until eternity exactly as they have happened from the times as far back as one stretches one’s imagination, that time span being as near as 4,500 crore years, which is the chemically estimated age of Earth Planet, a mere spec in the Universe comprising countless…

The words of wisdom namely, united we stand, divided we fall seem to have suffered a time warp. The target sections of the country’s population of an estimated 1.35 billion (135 crore) and still counting, don’t seem to be absorbing the import of these words, which used to reverberate across the country during action in…

Committing mistakes in life is said to provide opportunities to acquire experience. Committing the same mistake, either due to faded memory of mistakes done on earlier occasions or disdainfully doesn’t pass scrutiny of sensibility. The idiom once bitten twice shy may have come through experiences of repeated mistakes with undesirable consequences. A child is known…