It isn t that a person occupying high office has no right to do what he/she likes. For sure, they do; after all, they are human.
But there are also things like priority, timing and sense of larger country.
Sadly, we live in a world awash in tunnel vision, asserts Shyam G Menon.
Perhaps the government should explain how the same scientific temper, which authored a precise landing for Chandrayaan-3, finds the periodic table and the theory of evolution not good enough for inclusion in the educational curriculum, asserts Shyam G Menon.
August 15, 2023 became for me, an extraordinary Independence Day.
I will remember it as the day the country s largest political party one that struts around like a colossus and tutors us in apt behaviour suddenly looked bankrupt in terms of ideas and had to take out a personal guarantee from the prime minister to underscore its capacity to deliver our future, observes Shyam G Menon.
Against the backdrop of Kerala s appetite for commonsense, it was assumed that this controversy would pass.
Respect for rationalism and scientific outlook is strong in the state despite political forces gnawing at it for their own goals, observes Shyam G Menon.
If a 15 seconds-long mic problem merits a case being registered, then the police risk an avalanche of complaints of similar and greater gravity, seeking their intervention, notes Shyam G Menon.