Library and its Uses Or Pleasures of Reading Or Books as Companions Or Value of Library Reading Or Importance of Reading Books and Magazines Essay No. 01                 “If all the crowns of Europe were placed at my disposal on condition that I should abandon my books and studies, I should spun the crowns away and stand by the books.”                 — Eenelon                   “A good book is the precious...

Hostel Life Or Advantages and Disadvantages of Hostel Life Or Life in a College Hostel   Students get their education in schools or colleges either as day-scholars or by living in the hostels attached to their schools and colleges.  They system of living in hostels, away from the parents is not a new one.  In ancient days the students in India the students in India had to stay away from their...

Modern Fashions Or Fashions in Dresses Or The Tyranny of Fashions                   “A fashionable woman is always in love with herself.”                     — La Rochefoucauld                 In the olden days, man was quite uncivilized. He covered his body with leaves of trees or he used to live naked.  But as time advanced, he became civilized and cultured.  The result was that dress became a part and parcel of his life.                ...

Compulsory Military Training Or Value of Military Training Or Students and Military Training   Man is basically an animal.  The instinct of fighting is inborn in him.  Thirst for power and glory is a part of his personality. At time, he behaves like a savage, irrational beast.  In spite of all claims of the modern civilization, man is even today busy in piling up and preparing terrible weapons of war.  Nobody...

The impact of Privatization Or New Economic Policy and its Impact   When India became free, our top planners thought that socialism could be ushered in by centralizing production and  setting up a large number of public sector units catering to the varied needs of the people.  Huge investments were, therefore, made in public sector units and a number of autonomous or semi-government corporations were set up in the country.  With the...

Role of Banking in Rural Development   Money, everybody knows, makes the mare go.  The banking industry, is therefore, the real backbone of any country because it controls the entire economy.  It was some twenty years after the attainment of independence in this country that the national leaders thought of involving the banks in a big way in the development plants of the country.                 Banking industry in India has come...

Indo—Pak Bridges of Peace   Ever since the creation of Pakistan in 1947, India and Pakistan have always been at loggerheads.  They fought three open full-scale wars in the years 1948, 1965 and 1971.  Later, only a few years ago, there was yet another major fight at Kargil when Pakistan intruders pushed into the India Territory in Kashmir in a big way.  In all these wars, the Pak forces had to...