Law-making in the land can be traced to a period of its centuries of history, whether recorded or not, to as far back as one’s ability to look back. Narratives which are part of the country’s epics including Ramayana and Mahabharata too have their share of references to law-making. Not only India’s much-adored Constitution is…

India is the world’s largest democracy. One has to keep one’s reaction to that claim, or description of the nation using superlative adjective, without getting lost in the choice between (a) the adulation reflects its humongous population (as the second most populous) and (b) the appreciation for its democratic dispensation (which has started showing signs…

The American intellectual and inventor Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) is quoted as saying that there is nothing in life as certain as death and taxes. One may be inclined to take the quote as a merely humorous banter of Franklin, probably getting into a frame of mind hating the thought of shelling out taxes and taking…

Life’s journey towards landing a job and battling the ups and downs through subsequent years begins not a day too late after passing various examinations, starting with SSLC and PUC second year, unless one drops out of school even before making it to final year in high school. For the present column, the channels of…

Acts of people threatening orderly life both in the country and the rest of the regions across the globe on one side and the cosmic dance of nature’s fury, also in and around the country as well as all over the planet on the other side seem to be in perpetual competition in causing devastation…

The number of shrines dotting the length and breadth of India as well as the virtually countless deities being worshipped in these shrines can undoubtedly earn top spot for the country in a global rating. Karnataka, as officially disclosed by the State Department of Muzrai and Religious Establishments, hosts more than 34,000 temples under the…

Given the disturbed ambience all the time across the land, its dimensions being diverse in different regions for varied reasons, one is prompted to remark that the greatest gap lies between the country’s bludgeoning population as quantity and goings on in daily life of people as quality. In short, one cannot be faulted to further…

The monetary value of food produced annually in the country is some hard-to-guess portion of the size of its economy, currently doing round at a bit more than two trillion dollars. The figures for the top four or five other economies of the world, including the United States of America, China and Japan are many…

The most visible image of India, particularly to the country’s masses, is unarguably the multicoloured pictures of actors and actresses figuring in the movies of multiplicity of languages. The less the players on the big screen are attired, the more conspicuous in their image and that of the land. Undoubtedly, the least covered anatomy of…

On select occasions on days set apart for celebrating various themes, we hear public speakers recalling expressions such as (a) Home is the first school of the child, (b) Mother is the child’s first teacher and so on. The structure of the home in the bygone days, given the combo of inmates belonging to three…