Green activism can go too far Natural resources, however bountiful , are bound to be depleted beyond repair if industrial progress is driven for long by a hedonistic pursuit of  profits. The industrially advanced countries took more than two centuries to realize that material progress has been achieved at the cost of a clean environment. That, however, is no reason why India and other such developing countries should ignore or tolerate...

Is government going out of fashion?                    Economic thinking, akin to fashion, changes so quickly that yesterday’s truths become today’s falsehoods, yesterday’s oddities, today’s dogma. Once, not long ago, state control of a large area of the economy was accepted. Then came Thatcherism and Reaganomics; state intervention in the economy was attacked and pravastatin came to be increasingly in vogue. The late Eighties and early Nineties saw the collapse of socialism...

The tragedy of old age  In childhood and adolescence, there is a general tendency to regard adults, be they twenty-five or seventy – five to be quite over the hill, if not actually in their dolage! Mid-life is considered to be a gloomy distant future inevitably awaiting one, but not worth bothering about. By the time one reaches the fourth decade of life even a septuagenarian seems. In comparison, not the...

Education is Freedom Knowledge has always been represented by light, and ignorance has been symbolized by darkness. Hence education, the key to all knowledge and yet more knowledge, dispels the darkness and ushers in the light. Freedom too has always been associated with light whereas servility, imprisonment have been relegated to the depths of darkness. Prisons and dungeons have been always conceived as dark and gloomy whereas free men have all...