A few days back a family friend came to visit us after many years and while leaving gave me a gift, a book. To my surprise it was a book by Stephen Hawking, the physically challenged world famous Cosmologist and Physicist, who answers big questions. Brief answers to the big questions numbering 10. Though I…
He is changing the politics and economics of India after 72 years of Independence When the American weekly news magazine TIME dated May 20, 2019 came out with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photograph on the cover with the title India’s Divider In Chief, a vast majority of Modi loyalists apparently did not approve of the…
Last Friday I happened to read about the way the British remembered the 500th death anniversary of the renaissance artist and also a scientist Leonardo da Vinci. Primarily he is known to the world as the person who painted the Mona Lisa, the woman with a sphinx-like mysterious, subtle and eternal smile on her face….
This morning, I got a surprise WhatsApp message about Tejasvi Surya, the 28-year-old advocate and the surprise candidate from BJP to contest the Bengaluru South Parliamentary Constituency. The WhatsApp was a pictorial news item published in the Indian Express dated 21.7.1988 from Belgaum. The news item is produced here at the 5th column bottom and…
Exercise restraint and remove such material which is undesirable… act responsibly as is expected from them and accordingly decide what should or should not be published as wild and scandalous allegations undermine and irreparably damage the reputation and negate independence of the judiciary. — Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Arun Mishra, while passing order on…
Reading books has many advantages to those who have no friends and those who have problem getting sleep. As for me, I have friends and no problem sleeping the moment I hit the sack, exceptions apart. All the same, I continue my old habit of reading books. After all, old habits die hard, it is…
Plato the Greek Philosopher had said that an unexamined life is not worth living. I am unable to get the sense of this precept. Whose life? If it is my own life, life of each individual, how to examine it? What are the standards and parameters? Does it also mean introspection? Further, does it mean…
Will Modi redeem the pledge Nehru promised we the people of India in 1947? Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting our city Mysuru tomorrow as part of his roller-coaster Parliamentary election campaign and will address the citizens of this royal and cultural city of Karnataka at the same venue where he addressed us in 2014…
If Narendra Modi makes a triumphant return to power as the unquestioned leader of the BJP, let me speculate, there are many possibilities for the future of India — the Constitution will be amended to fix the problem of Jammu & Kashmir once and for all. This, I think, will affirm the genuine Secular character…
PM Modi, Dronacharya for Arjunas of DRDO Last Wednesday evening, I had a special request from industrialist and Wellness Guru Dr. B.R. Pai of Vijay Wires to attend a lecture and workshop titled “Leadership 4.0” by Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director of IIM, Kozhikode, Kerala. Having heard another Management Guru Gaur Gopal Das, only a few…
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