Towards Linguistic Disharmony  More than 1700 languages are spoken in India as mother tongue. Indian languages of today have sprouted, as it were, from various language families’ vis-à-vis ethnic peculiarities. They may be classified into six major groups: Negroid; Austric; Sino-Tibetan; Indo-Aryan; Dravidian; and, miscellaneous speeches. Their meaning, in whole or part, is self-explanatory. Rigmarole has always been a mirage, because, India has never had a common language, intelligible to every...

Global Music    The global viewpoint of music is that we live in an increasingly smaller “global village.” Music plays a role in all societies, and it exists in a large number of styles, each characteristic of a geographical region or a historical era. With advance in worldwide transportation and communication and with increasingly mobile societies, it seerzls not only suitable but also necessary to develop a global viewpoint of music....

The Role of Opposition in Democracy  Democracy is the government of people, by the people and for the people. It is the most common form of the government in this world. In democracy, the opposition has a great role to play. In a parliamentary system of government the party or the group of parties commanding majority forms the government and remains in power as long as it enjoys the confidence of...