Category: Society

Yes, there is always this glib talk. Talk of ensuring food security. That is a fine sentiment, provided you really ensure also security to the farming profession. Is there now food security? Yes, there is. The godowns are overflowing with excess grain stocks. The food security issues crops up every now and then, no, every…

The first-ever “festival of Poland” in South-east  Asia, offering music and poetry, movies and seminars on Polish history and culture, was held in Bangalore just recently. Oh, what an experience! And Poland? Yes, Poland is a great tragedy once it was! Poland that was destroyed from the world map, history and politics for over 125…

People must get at the truth fully! PM’s talk of rate of growth, convening of teams and a lackluster image no inspiration!  Terror strikes India in a massive way! Shakes our confidence and our collective response needs some hard questioning! Is the government as it has responded enough of a guarantee for future security? It…

Private initiatives are making waves in the Indian scheme of politics and national life? It is good that the Bangalore-based government and private partnership in culture promotion, namely, the Bangalore Habba was postponed in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. The mood in the country is not suited for any celebrations of sorts. It is…

A remarkable Kannada book publishing house Karnataka’s literary heritage multi-faceted! Literature, music, theatre unparallel! It is a happy news that the latest Bharat Rathna went to the legendary Hindustani musician, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. With this recognition and also with the announcement of Kannada as a classical language, the state emerges to the front rank as…

What is the status of the Social Sciences   in India? Why we have forgotten to teach the Political Science? Is it not the king of the social sciences? Gandhi, Nehru and Indira Gandhi legacy we talk about! But we don’t analyse and articulate their legacies or their political ideologies! Some peculiar Indian legacy! In Bangalore,…

How to assess Sonia Gandhi’s leadership? Kiran Bedi can’t have the cake and eat it too! While serving in uniform, you can’t play a Medha Patkar or a Mamata Banerjee! Women empowerment is taken, mistakenly,as putting women in political office! This is just an empowerment by accident! The “widows syndrome”! In the Western societies women…

A time for celebration. And a time for introspection On an occasion like this, it is often easy to be nice and say the usual flattering things about ourselves. But in a more serious, purposeful sense it is rather imperative, a moral duty as well, to be more retrospective, more committed to see far and…