Craving for recognition by certain sections in the land’s mass of an estimated 135 crore people as minorities has caught up with yet another section in a well-marked sect. The demand by this fraternity with a considerably high headcount, which began on a quiet note recently has lately assumed the dimensions of a public rage,…

Mysuru is ablaze for a public cause. The notable feature of the scene that emerged this week on the road stretch from Kalamandira to the corner a few yards after the entrance to Jaladarshini Guest House was that the 1,000 plus citizens, youngest being a three-year-toddler and the most elderly being a couple of years…

The city’s literati, given to the habit of writing in their preferred columns of this daily, have been expressing a hope on Mysuru not going the Bengaluru way. The State’s capital, portrayed in glorious terms as the Garden City, Asia’s Fastest Growing City, and so on in the years not too long ago has fallen…

The Union Labour Ministry on Monday disclosed the broad contents of the policy to formalise the right of domestic workers to equal and minimum wages, social security cover, skill development programme and forming Unions at par with other workers under the existing labour laws. Until not too long ago, the domestic worker, euphemistically called domestic…

Although food that we consume at home in well-marked sessions during the day, everyday, and at places outside our homes on various occasions is to primarily assuage hunger, one cannot but agree with the fact that it is our eyes that get the first chance to savour the dishes, to be followed by our fingers,…

Perhaps there is no other subject that can match food when it comes to engaging oneself in talking or thinking or enjoying or suffering or grieving either before or after two most ubiquitous event. The soliloquy To be or not to be spoken by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare’s play by the same name with…

Successive governments have been proclaiming  the country’s all round progress. Some of them also have been claiming that the country has made rapid progress even as the voices in the respective oppositions portray an opposite scenario. The opinion of the lay public about whether the country has been making progress, rapid or otherwise, depends on…

In his famous book Essay on the Principle of Population, the British scholar Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) articulated his views regarding human population saying, “An increase in a nation’s food production improved the well-being of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth which in turn restored the original per…

The term ‘3 Rs’ has been understood for long to represent the three skills reading, writing and arithmetic regarded as the fundamentals of education. Given the ubiquitous low rating bestowed upon the present education system in the land credited in a large measure to the British historian and administrator Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), one is…