Old people used to be considered as oldies in days gone by until not too long ago, not without a hint of derogatory sense attached to them and the now-not-much-in-use term. They are referred to as senior citizens nowadays with whatever sense of respectability that their new image in society has been bestowed. In any…

The nation’s economic health and bodily health of its population are usually assessed and rated in a disjointed approach in various circles and by different agencies although they mutually impact each other. Even the oft-declared information that the government’s outlay on public health is far too small, stated as about three percent of the land’s…

Although the issues of education in the current scenario across the nation are being raked by public speakers of standing in society in a wide range, from being taken by people at large in all seriousness to being dismissed lightly, one may be permitted to begin this column with a light-hearted humour: “How did the…

Rated as the loftiest Veda-derived thought is the message conveyed in the lines of Verses included in the sixth chapter of Mahopanishat. The lines translate to: ”One is a relative, the other stranger, say the small-minded. The entire world is a family, live the magnanimous. Be detached, be magnanimous, lift up your mind…” The context…

The land’s epics feature narratives about air travel during prehistoric times. More of believe-it-or-not reference made to flying from place to place separated by long distances on airborne vehicles always with room for one more person after they were houseful. Another instance of room for all, human beings, animals and possessions of various kinds, on…

An elected representative of people in the present Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, with a name for his outspoken manner of expressing his views on some sensitive issues for public consumption, has just been quoted in the media saying that intellectuals who make public statements on the country’s current dispensation regarding the beliefs and customs of…

The term pay, figuring in the caption to this column, refers to the pay packet and is used in its noun form. The term performance connotes work done by the fraternity in workforce earning wages in the process, usually stated clearly in advance. While the work done or performance in doing the assigned or agreed…

Whatever is said in order to express one’s opinion on others, based either on experience or understanding or even misunderstanding (which happens more often), seems to benefit or suffer in importance depending on who says so. One has to just do a bit of speed reading of the printed matter in the columns of dailies…

Mood, being commonly understood as state of the mind, takes one from one state of mind to another, not always in a desirable change-over. If that change manifests itself as anger, the consequences happen in a chain of sorts as succinctly said in a Bhagavadgita verse 63 of chapter two. The fallout of anger, as…