Passages with Solved Precis In India, no one section of the community seems to miss an opportunity to go on strike. Almost, every day we read in the newspapers of some one or the other going on strike, quite often for the flimsier reasons one can imagine. Strike is a legitimate weapon of the workers to get better pay, shorter hours of work and better working conditions when all the other...

Passages with Solved Precis The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want o read the second time even more than we wanted to read it the first time; and every additional time that we read it we find new meanings and new beauties in it. A book that a person of education and good...

Passages with Solved Precis Every ancient tradition was similarly influenced by religion. Even in Europe, it is only during the last two or three centuries that the influence of Christianity has declined to a certain extent. To the extent that the religion of a particular people is among the first flowerings of a people’s individuality, it is almost tautologies to suggest that their culture was influenced by their religion. Since, culture,...

Passages with Solved Precis Whither goeth the modern man? Is he not lost in the splendour of the materialistic pleasures? Has he not turned a mammon-worshipper? Doesn’t he believe in the precepts of exterior glamour? How far has the western materialism affected the body-politic in India, has yet to be gauged by the psycho-analysts. We know that the modern system of education has not only paralysed the Indian society, but on...

Passages with Solved Precis Fascism, in the words of Mussolini, believes that ‘war alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it’. Again a doctrine which is founded on the harmful postulate of peace is hostile to Fascism. The Fascist then is one who believes that the bombardment of open towns with fire, poison...

Passages with Solved Precis In the good old days of the great King Ashoka, a sense of justice, it is said prevented any Indian king from attempting conquest beyond the limits of India. It is true that it was the ambition of the most powerful kings to be Chakravarti or ruler of the world. But world they thought of was confined to India. Beyond its natural frontiers they had no ambitions....

Passages with Solved Precis People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an accepted belief that if people only had plenty of money, they would be happy and useful and get more out of life. As a rule there is more genuine satisfaction in life and more attained from life in the humble cottages of the poor man than in the palaces of the rich. I...

Passages with Solved Precis During the Gupta period the people enjoyed perfect religious freedom. The emperors used to treat monks belonging to various religious denominations with kindness and they used to give them much money by way of charity though they themselves belonged to the Brahmanical creed. Thus, learned Buddhist monks used to reside in the monasteries at Patliputra and many Buddhists used to come from far and near to study...