‘Panoli’ – Blooming once in a lifetime
While I was in Mangalore during this past October, I read an interesting news reporting in Deccan Herald (dated October 16, 2008) of a...
Woman On Top
I suffer from a gender bias. And over the years I have realised the bias is tilted strongly in favour of the fairer sex,...
On Twenty Overs Cricket
Test cricket lasts for five days and is totally long, drawn out and could be, many a times, a boring game, though purists and...
War on drugs getting nowhere
About The Author
Dr. Shanthie Mariet D'Souza is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. She has Expertise in...
ICYM – A Legacy of 60 Years in forming Leaders
By H R Alva - Mangalore
We cannot call it a diamond or set its value on a diamond stone unless it is properly shaped...
Capital of Literacy Needs a Good Bookshop?
This is a proposal that in financial terms would be peanuts, or half a peanut, to some of you. Mangalore is a city that...
Last Journey of PNS Ghazi
It was night of 3rd December 1971. Late Roshan Lal, my constant companion during our survey assignments and I had reached a forest bungalow...
The man who sowed Gandhi and reaped happiness
Brahmavar, June 14: The road north, out of Udupi induces peace and calm. The Arabian Sea to the left, the sense of space and...
Say it with flowers! – Album
Author: Joyce Alvares- Qatar
The Legacy Of The Holy Father Pope John Paul II
BiographyCardinal Karol Wojtyla of Cracow was elected Bishop of Rome and 263rd successor of St. Peter as Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church on...






















