Seasoned analysts of the just-announced outcome of the election to the 15th Legislative Assembly of Karnataka and also the Spokespersons of major political parties taking part in debates telecast by different Kannada channels of the television network dwelt on many issues mirroring the mindset of the State’s electorate of the near-about 70 per cent out…

The Kannada idiom Attegondu Kaala, Sosegondu Kaala succinctly portraying the plight of persons having a whale of a time enjoying boundless authority and influence both in the family and society at large forced to play second-fiddle to another person taking over the reins may not be familiar to the present generation’s flock. The resulting loss…

The country’s ongoing annual addition to the already accumulated number of both unemployed and underemployed population doesn’t seem to have weighed down the top brass in the incumbent Union Government as well as the heavy-weights in the Opposition who happened to indulge in the just-concluded poll campaigns in Karnataka generously assuring creation of jobs in…

The pick of the playwrights, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), famously identified as the Bard of Stratford upon Avon wrote his famous line “All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players” in the play As you like it. Whether anyone accepts or not, they have their exits and entrances. The sharp-brained…

The country’s People-to-Police ratio is witnessing a change leading to the number of cops per one lakh population fast approaching the figures being reported in many countries of the West. The not-so-subtle point to be noted is that the world’s second most populous country is on the cusp of having the second most, if not…

Birth and death, the two events marking the start and end of life’s journey, the first perceived as an accident and the second accepted as inevitable in case of all living beings have not spared even the characters featured in the land’s epics scripted between five and ten thousand years ago. Barring a few among…

An old Kannada idiom crisply describes the culture, more appropriately the lack of culture of a person by the expression naalige kula helithu (words spoken reveal the social background). The current scenario in the land, specially across Karnataka, going by the voluminous printed matter in dailies of all hues, portrays the heavy weights in both…

Historians have traced the approximate dateline for the birth of a few cities around the world, including some in the country. The birth of Bengaluru, having been rechristened recently from its globally recognised name of Bangalore and attributed to Magadi ruler Kempegowda, enjoying a five-plus-century vintage is being bandied about by speakers on specific occasions,…

Ants and honey bees in particular and insects of all known kinds inhabiting the planet earth in general are known to be engaged on work 24×7. The denizens of the forest too work in order to catch their prey for assuaging hunger before taking it easy until it is time to do it again subsequently….