Pages of history narrating episodes that featured the rulers at different times in some regions across the world in bad light also make people wonder if people are in the same mould in our times. Two such episodes stand out. In the first one, a great fire ravaged Rome for six days in July 64…

Without taking sides in the debate on whether the events narrated in the land’s monumental epics as well as the characters therein were in the region of reality or only created by their ancient authors, one may take the liberty of talking about the leading lights of that era, admittedly the icons of their times….

Common citizens are figuring in media reports of their deaths at the hands of different agencies for varied reasons creating unprecedented workload to the country’s Police force. Two reported facts namely a) delay in hearing and awarding sentences to the proven criminal elements and b) partial success on the part of law-keeping staff in the…

Public gaze and media reports on matters concerning the nation and its citizens have been keeping their tryst with change throughout the year, prompting one to recollect a quote of the legendary British Statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” Granting the validity and soundness…

Two of the most popular pets are dogs and cats. Given the steadily shrinking living space in particularly overcrowded cities for the human residents, fascinatingly called metros, these companion animals may become history in course of time. Restrictions are already being imposed denying pets to share space in multistoreyed apartments, including those that have come…

The Union Finance Minister has just done the annual ritual of presenting the Government’s Budget proposed to generate funds and spending it during the coming twelve months of the fiscal, ostensibly to safeguard the nation’s economic health in particular and welfare of its populace in general. While the effort attracted adoration from some quarters, the…

Mother earth gives protection to all the living beings without discrimination. Sadly, the same courtesy is not being reciprocated by different classes among the inhabitants, human beings at large asserting their right to enjoy the earth’s bounty over the rest. The planet is currently bearing the load of an estimated headcount of more than 700…

There is a statement that there will always be enough to meet everyone’s need, but not everyone’s greed. In this era that is witnessing a slim, if not a vanishing line setting apart need from luxuries, read greed, it is imperative not only to produce more materials of both need and luxuries taking no break…

Lines scripted by poets, particularly those who have immortalised themselves, being in the celebrated class long after their times, have earned them well-marked identity. William Wordsworth (1770-1850), described by his admirers as an early leader of romanticism and nature’s poet concentrating on human emotions, ranking as one of the greatest lyricists treated prose as secondary…

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote about mercy in his play The Merchant of Venice. “No one shows mercy because he has to. It just happens, the way gentle rain drops on the ground. Mercy is a double blessing. The quality of mercy is not strained. It is twice blest. It blesseth him that gives and him…