One of the most widely-known management educator and author, Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909-2005) whose guiding principles continue to be used by managers worldwide, believed that managers, above all else, be leaders. He was among the first to depict management as a distinct function, with distinct responsibilities to boot. While human beings find themselves in the…

Presenting a budget and budgeting are as different as chalk and cheese. British author Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) has rightly prescribed that one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live with his income. As a corollary, the first duty of the government is to govern the…

The merits and demerits of the consequences of both vision and mission are evaluated by people in general and pundits in particular mostly by hindsight. The script of India’s much glorified Constitution owes it to the vision of its writers while the subsequent happenings have been the mission of the successive Governments both at the…

Literacy rate in the country increased from 18.33 percent in 1951 to 74.04 percent in 2011, while the population expanded from 361 million to 1,210 million. A study carried out a few years ago estimated that it would take until 2060 for India to achieve universal literacy at the current progress. Kerala is reportedly the…

Given the often made statement by seasoned and informed writers that the nation’s youth in the age bracket of 25 to 37 years account for half its population and a steadily increasing number unemployed in that section despite years of schooling at considerable cost, their massive presence in crowds assembled at venues of speeches by…

The first victim of launching development projects, particularly all over Karnataka, unmistakably is the row of full-grown trees, planted by the region’s nameless Good Samaritans of yesteryears and nurtured by later generations, also of a few decades. More victims have joined the trees on their way into the pages of history and vanished in the…

The Nation’s Constitution, the text of which is often glorified in many ways, including its dubious feature as the world’s most voluminous by public speakers of all hues from various platforms on well-marked occasions, has mothered not only 120 or so amendments but also a large number of Acts and still counting. Their virtual tail…

Every generation owes to the people of past generations in no small measure all the good things of life including ways of life, infrastructure in public domain that has endured to this day, texts that spell the grand rules for harmony in society, art forms such as music, sense of fellow-feeling towards other members of…

On the occasion of celebrating 71st anniversary of birth of The Republic (India), it is appropriate to ponder over the plight of India’s aam janata (public), unarguably a complex mix of the currently estimated 1,400 million people marked by profiles as diverse as one is willing to dissect and dwell deep. Their aspirations to live…

Unlike the people of the country, several generations past who pursued their callings in their respective settlements, their counterparts of the land nowadays seem to be on the move both within the country and offshore destinations triggered by many factors including family-related issues, better opportunities for starting enterprises, more comforting weather, transfers by the employing…