In the face of the country’s economy being bestowed focused attention by analysts both globally and nationally, steadily witnessing the much disturbing slowdown due to many factors resulting in the verdict of the annual rate of increase of gross domestic product at 4.8 percent over earlier periods against the target of more than 7.5 percent,…

Cities across the world seem to have crossed the common feature of hosting both human beings and motorised vehicles in equal numbers. Now, it is the turn of villages to share that feature in foreseeable future, given the steadily rising number of rustics taking to reach the cities on two-wheelers in preference to walking and…

Agreeing to disagree on various matters that are loaded with concern to the parties or otherwise and disagreeing to agree, being attitudes that lead to contrasting consequences are different cups of tea as it were. The former attitude, an uncommon virtue, is built on dialogue marked by listening to the expressions by either parties with…

The terms environment and ecosystem seem to be used and understood as synonyms, particularly by writers on issues relating to climate change and speakers recognised in society as environmentalists, the tribe trying to enlighten both administrations and lay public on the imperatives of avoiding all human activities that hurt environment to the detriment of both…

The ground rules for human beings to be complied with in order to prolong their well-being as age catches up, particularly from boyhood stage onwards don’t seem to be beyond the grasp of anybody, literate or illiterate. Moderation in the matter of food consumption, as prescribed by the wise, the apparently simple-to-follow rule has hardly…

Bengaluru, globally glorified as a Garden City with salubrious weather with its name Bangalore until not too long ago, attracted numerous people to the city nearly doubling its population in a decade and continuing to increase. Mysuru, also glorified as Heritage City and Pensioners’ Paradise with its earlier identity as Mysore, has already started going…

The ideal wish that everyone in the world be comfortably placed in life and thus be happy in the widest meaning of the term is precisely expressed in the verse that some scholars source it to Rigveda as invocation of Kathopanishad while the only written attribution or textual source of the verse Lokah samastah sukhino…

Likening the profile of an individual to that of an animal in a derogatory sense, choosing the species such as monkey, donkey, rat, owl, vulture and cobra to name the few common candidates can be hurtful and tough to bear. Choosing insects such as mosquito and bedbug, to forcefully remind a person how insignificant one…

The issue of country’s acute shortfall of toilets and the habit of defecating in open spaces by millions of its people, both in the fields around villages and roadsides within city limits which figured in the circles of officialdom as well as aam aadmi for quite sometime in recent years having yielded place to other…