The VIP Culture in India India it seems is rather obsessed with its so-called huge team of VIPs which has taken a toll of India’s resources to a very great extent. It is the typical Indian psyche that gives such an enormous value to its VIPs. It is however a pity that, in a country as large as India, with its vast population the VIPs should hold so much clout that, the...

National Calamities National Calamities are those calamities which often occur everywhere in the world when God’s fury shows up in different ways. In any National Calamity, nature’s elements appear to get completely out of control and show their anger on man and his world, and the result is disaster for man, and his property.  Mother shows its wrath on man by a variety of means, they being earthquakes, volcanoes. Water shows anger by...

Crisis Management   With the coming of the Gujarat Earthquake on 26th January, a new buzzword is taking the rounds and that is, Crisis Management. The idea of this sort of management is that, we should have some sort of an infrastructure to face the eventuality of any crisis, that may befall the country, at any point of time. Yes, it is all too well to think and imagine such a set...

The Indian Politician The politician, in any country is a class apart from all others but, the Indian politician is a class apart even from the politicians of the world. It would be very interesting to study why this class is a class by itself.  In most cases, the reason is not far or difficult to seek. The reason is simple and straight. He is the person who at one time was...

The Under World  The Underworld is quite a well known and oft heard expression in the modern days. How it has grown to its present size and what it really is, is not too well known publicly. However, its growth is obviously the result of continued and hard effort of some, who must have started the sequence.  To day what the underworld stands for is for a layman, a world of rich...

Illiteracy in India  Essay No. 01 Illiteracy has been the bane of independent India. It is a shame to note that, the country that gave Epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to the world should, in the let Century turn out to be one among the most illiterate countries of the world. How this has come to be is of course not far to seek. Even in the understanding of a layman,...

Health and Exercise  Health and exercise are the two sides of the same coin, absolutely inseparable from each other. Let us analyse what health is. Health is, in common understanding, the name given to the correct Well adjusted working of the physical system of man’s body. This involves the efficient working of all the systems of the body i.e.’the nervous system, circulatory system, digestive system etc. If all these systems are working...

Gujarat Earthquake – 26th January 2001   An Earthquake is a natural phenomenon and a calamity par excellence. Scientist believe that, when the lava in the depths of the earth moves from one place to another, or twists and turns, it causes the earth to shake, and we call it an earthquake. This movement can be mild and absolutely harmless and sometimes even unfelt by most men. However, if the quake or...