Realism key to development   Present world situation calls upon philosophers to combat blind dogmatism and irrational creeds and reconstruct man’s institutions on more rational basis. The history of humanity has been a continuous struggle between rational and irrational forces, between knowledge and enlightenment on the on hand and stupidly, prejudice, superstition and factionalism on the other. The social intellectuals of the prehistoric age like Plato have also advocated government by...

Life a bane or a boom   Life means different things to different people, and so generalizations about life are almost always misleading for the simple reason, and every man’s response to its call is determined bu his own experience and temperament. A man who has suffered few mishaps in life, whose upbringing has been in healthy surroundings, who is fortunate in love and friendship, who has identified himself with some...

Computer Technology a harbinger o new life   Computer is the latest addition to the achievement of science. Computer bases technology has heralded a new life of information Technology besides its role in agriculture, biotechnology, oceanography, engineering and medicine. A computer is capable of storing and processing enormous amount of information at a lightning speed. The information is transmitted, shared and disseminated to other users via computers through a network.        ...

Advertising an expensive means to sell   Advertisement is an effective and skillful way of selling various consumer goods specially luxuries and convenience. Advertisements dominate the television and radio programmers’, newspapers and magazines. It has become a major industry involving services of personals including top-most artists, industry involving services of personals including top-most artists, actors, musicians and model. Huge sums of money are spent for promotion of goods and services. There...

Farm mechanization   Indian agriculture has been going through a series of crises such as rising number of suicides among farmer, mounting rural indebtedness and swelling rural to urban migration, for over decade now.  The long-term viability of agriculture and the survival of the farming community itself are at stake, with the World Trade organization (WTO) and structural adjustment programme finally beginning to spread.  All these coincide with the time when...

India needs a strong centre   India is often described as a land of unity in diversity, but this description has not held good always.  The most important lesson history has for India is that whenever the Centre has been weakened; the country has gone to pieces.  The history of India bears ample testimony to this fact that for centuries together the same story was repeated over and over again.  The...

India as the world sees her   While we may look at our country with our colored eyes and feel proud that our country has a rich legacy of ancient past, a dark shadow in between during the Middle Ages and an uncomfortable present but a bright future.  Yet the real picture of our country can be viewed only by an outsider who may be in a position to look dispassionately...

Socio-economic justice- An unfulfilled dream of India   India is a country with a developing economy where a vast majority of the people is living at a subsistence level.  And Political Social and economic justices are mentioned first and the political aspect comes third in order of preference.  This in itself indicates that the makers of our constitution realized the significance of these vital aspects of Justice.  Social the preamble to...