The nation, after responding splendidly to the clarion call for sweeping the dust as it were and creating a clean country by taking to the humble broom, has lately got immersed in dirty politics for sweeping which there is no broom yet designed. To say that pondering over the issue of cleaning the latter dirt…

At least two features of the sector of technical education in the land raise many questions. Graduates of the IITs that were established a few decades ago are known to have moved abroad in search of and succeeding in landing jobs on a large scale not only getting them fat pay cheques but also, more…

Results of high school final examination and II PU examination of 2018 announced recently by the respective authorities in the State and subsequent celebrations in schools and homes of students scoring high marks ending in stamp-size images of the meritorious boys and girls in both tabloids and broad-sheets have led to their parents spending sleepless…

The performance of institutions currently functioning across the country ostensibly to subserve the purpose of training the successive generations from childhood through adulthood by the arduous process of learning has been rated far below both required standards and global levels on many counts, but most importantly on the count of creativity of products from the…

The idiom A lot of water has flowed under the bridge may convey wider message than in incidents which occurred in the past and no longer has any importance. One such incident provides the context in which a person disclosed that his wife had an affair with her boss, it is all water under the…

Taking stock of the perspective being talked and written about by the country’s diaspora across the wide cross section of society as they visualise the current goings on in the land can both be fascinating and disturbing for different reasons, depending on knowledge and understanding of the diverse factors causing and contributing to the scenario….

The country’s steadily expanding human population, establishment of medical education institutions adding to their existing number across the nation, increasing the intake of students in medical colleges both for under-graduate and post-graduate courses, cost of medical education both in government-managed and private institutions, output of medicines and diagnostic devices by indigenous pharmaceutical industry, and last…

Lament by a marked section of public speakers about absence of old values in society of our times and clarion calls to the youth to imbibe those values don’t seem to have many takers. As if to add insult to injury, many a youth can be heard questioning the relevance of the advisory coming from…

The currently accepted figure of seven plus billion human beings hosted by planet earth, respectfully projected as mother, taken along with the second related figure of the annual addition to this mass, namely 85 million, while noting that the world’s total headcount was only one billion in 1800 and expected to touch 10 billion at…

The fever of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, launched on October 2, 2014 and the fervour displayed by the nation’s people at large to sweep the streets, mop the living spaces, gather the garbage mass as well as sanitise every nook and corner in both urban and rural areas across the country have currently come down on…