A good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge The American philosopher and author Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to…
DEATH PENALTY (CAPITAL PUNISHMENT) 1. Meaning: The death penalty is known as capital punishment. The word “capital punishment” is made of de capitation. It means to cut the upper part of a body. It is connected with capital offence i.e.…
BUREAUCRATS SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PEOPLE In little Dorrit wrote Charles Dickens: ‘In short, all the business of the country went through the circumlocution office except business that never came out of it and its name was Legion.’ Here…
CAN INDIA GET RID OF CORRUPTION? There is an all-pervading corruption in our socio-economic and political structure and this has not spared even our own family life – such is the rotten state of India. A degrading value system as…
CAN INDIA GET RID OF CORRUPTION? There is an all-pervading corruption in our socio-economic and political structure and this has not spared even our own family life – such is the rotten state of India. A degrading value system as…
CHILD LABOUR Child labour can be defined as work performed by children (below 14 years of age in India) that either endangers their health or safety, interferes with or prevents education or keeps them away from play and other activity…
COMPUTER – THE HARBINGER OF SILENT REVOLUTION Necessity is the mother of invention. The saying holds true for computers also because computers were invented as a result of man’s search for a fast and accurate calculating device. The earliest device…
LIBERALISATION AND ‘SWADESHI’ When Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was delivering his famous speech, ‘The Tryst with Destiny’ he would have never imagined that fifty-five years hence his country would be in shambles and the national economy in tatters. Muhammed Bin…
NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Deliverance comes not from electoral forms but informed franchise, not from the mystic authority of franchise but from the enlightened participation of the populace in the public affairs. – Justice Krishna Iyer Transparency in…
NREGA The NREGA, the flagship programme of the UPA government, was revolutionary in its promise of inclusive growth, the right to work and the dignity of labour and a rational, participatory relationship with the State. And it has mostly delivered……
ONE NATION ONE LAW India is an ancient civilisation governed by customs and traditions. Sometimes, it is called the museum of various religions, castes, cultures and ethnic groups. If we go down the ancient period we find that India was…
PUBLIC SECTOR: BANE OF INDIAN ECONOMY Any nation can stand on world stage only on the basis of a healthy economy. For a developing country, the domestic economy depends a lot on public and private sectors. But in our country…
PUBLIC SECTOR: BANE OF INDIAN ECONOMY Any nation can stand on world stage only on the basis of a healthy economy. For a developing country, the domestic economy depends a lot on public and private sectors. But in our country…
RELIGION AND SCIENCE “Science doesn’t require religion for its existence and religion doesn’t need science for its existence, but man needs both”. – Fritjof Capra Ever since the dawn of civilisation, men of wisdom – intellectuals and scholars, philosophers and…
RESERVATION: FOR HOW LONG? The idea of privilege is the bane of human life…. whenever privilege is broken down, more and more light and progress come to a race…. Absolutely no privilege for anyone. – Swami Vivekananda The enjoyment of…
SHOULD THERE BE RESERVATION? To rule India — with her huge size and population — the British hit upon a simple yet brilliant idea: divide and rule, with the State playing the crucial role of an arbitrator between various warring…
ROLE OF WOMEN IN NATION BUILDING “Our women have a very great part to play in the progress of our country, as the mental and physical contact of women with life is much more lasting and comprehensive than that of…
ROLE OF WOMEN IN NATION BUILDING “Our women have a very great part to play in the progress of our country, as the mental and physical contact of women with life is much more lasting and comprehensive than that of…
SHOULD THERE BE DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE? As the nation turns 51, there’s someone else who turns 51 too. Aruna Shanbaug. That’s all there is to her now; her name. Nothing changes in Aruna’s life. Except the calendar which will…
SHOULD THERE BE DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE? As the nation turns 51, there’s someone else who turns 51 too. Aruna Shanbaug. That’s all there is to her now; her name. Nothing changes in Aruna’s life. Except the calendar which will…
TERRORISM History is replete with many instances of violence. Terrorism is a political violence which is considered wanton and unjustified. Terrorists are the actors in terrorism, often addressing themselves as ‘Freedom fighters’, ‘Jehadis’, ‘Mujaheddins’ or ‘Fedayeens’. Terrorism involves the systematic…
THE COMPOSITE CULTURE OF INDIA “India is a mixed pot of races.” – Jawaharlal Nehru Culture and civilisation are two such concepts, which are devoid of any concrete definition. The word ‘culture’ broadly covers the sum total of a nation’s…
WHITHER INDIAN DEMOCRACY? When Winston Churchill remarked, “Democracy is the worst form of government, unfortunately we do not know anything better,” he was not merely enjoying a paradox. He was underlining the fact, derived from historic experience, how difficult it…
WHITHER INDIAN DEMOCRACY? When Winston Churchill remarked, “Democracy is the worst form of government, unfortunately we do not know anything better,” he was not merely enjoying a paradox. He was underlining the fact, derived from historic experience, how difficult it…