The Indian men’s cricket team will visit West Indies on a 17-day tour next month after the Champions Trophy. The teams will play five One-day internationals and one Twenty20, the cricket boards of both countries confirmed yesterday. The ODI matches will be played at Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad and Tobago, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium…
Tale of Indian Democracy: Urbanites Vs Rustics
May 16, 2017India’s demographic profile, as foreseen by research teams pursuing population studies, is heading to be dominated by urbanities. The pace of that event is picking unprecedented trend. The renowned British Physicist, Stephen Hawking, has been warning about the perils of relentless addition to human headcount on planet earth as a whole, which according to him…
Government enacts, people react: The game goes on
May 13, 2017Global rating agencies, keenly watching the goings on in countries across the world and more so the performance of the respective governments as a regulator resorting to enacting laws, ostensibly to keep the citizens on track, have been placing India near the bottom of the scale worked out on the basis of different sets of…
Son of Kodagu leaves his footprint on snow-clad mountains -3
May 6, 2017While it is common for Kodagu youth to join the Armed Forces and dedicate their lives for their Nation, ready to make the supreme sacrifice, there are some sons of the soil who have earned name and fame through their service in the Survey Department. One such hero is Kalyatanda B. Appachu, son of late…
Son of Kodagu leaves his footprint on snow-clad mountains -2
May 5, 2017While it is common for Kodagu youth to join the Armed Forces and dedicate their lives for their Nation, ready to make the supreme sacrifice, there are some sons of the soil who have earned name and fame through their service in the Survey Department. One such hero is Kalyatanda B. Appachu, son of late…
Son of Kodagu leaves his footprint on snow-clad mountains -1
May 4, 2017K.B. Appachu remembers his days when he surveyed Indo-China border at the time of Chinese aggression in 1961 While it is common for Kodagu youth to join the Armed Forces and dedicate their lives for their Nation, ready to make the supreme sacrifice, there are some sons of the soil who have earned name and…
New India in the Making
May 2, 2017Here are three developments: Banning of Red Beacon, Implementation of RERA and Dynamic Pricing of Petrol By N. Niranjan Nikam May 1, was not only International Labour Day, but it was also a day in our country when a slew of Acts and Rules came into effect. Actually, there were three changes which is supposed…
Dissent is a vital part of nationalism. We need it. Enforced nationalism is counter-productive
May 2, 2017By T.J.S. George It is part of India’s Vedic wisdom that even amrut, when taken in excess, turns poisonous. The case of nationalism is no different: Too much of it becomes counter-productive. Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and M.M.Kalburgi were nationalists, proud of their country and working for its betterment. But they were independent thinkers like…
Servers seeking service (Inclusive India, a mirage)
April 26, 2017Proverbs and idioms, being exclusively scripted in different languages, as is familiar to the sections in the land’s population speaking, writing, reading and communicating particularly in Kannada wherever they are across the world, have crystallised out of life’s experiences of people in successive generations, although none of them is attributed to any individual of an…
Re-inventing the wheel
April 18, 2017Voices are being aired on select occasions that quality of research in India has descended from great heights to abysmal depths. The verdict originating to both informed circles with credentials and also lay people with no proven entitlement to pass remarks, either in adulation or berating, may be mere conjecture or stork truism. In this…
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