Can India Become a Superpower? Every day, countless commentators prophesy the ascendance of the world’s next superpowers, India and China, the two “Asian giants” shaking of their ancient slumber and rising, to the calf of the 21st century.                                                                              — Yale Global  What makes a country a superpower? Well, if we reflect on this word in a broader sense, we would realize that a superpower would be a State which...

Cricket Mania An old adage says it all: ‘Cricket is a gentleman’s game.” The game of cricket in today’s world has reached its quintessence through the concerted efforts of players, spectators, ICC and not to mention the respective Boards of Control for Cricket of the cricket-playing nations. These days a lot of hullabaloo is created over the hosting of a cricket match especially in the case of the One-Day International Cricket....

Development and Population Control Essay No. 01 According to many analysts, development is the best contraceptive”. But if we look at India, there seems to be some doubt about the truth of this statement. In India, planned development and family planning have been going on for over five decades now. But our population problem has only become more disturbing over the time. The fruits of development are seen on the food...

The Problems of Old Age Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to grow old. This phenomenon is really funny. Old age is viewed as an unavoidable undesirable and problem-ridden phase of life that we all are compelled to live, marking time until our final exit from life itself. Perceiving old age with fear is actually a rather recent phenomenon. This fear seems to increase as each day passes...

Torture: The Living Death Torture is, undoubtedly, the most barbaric form of human punishment. It takes a war or a custodial death to revive the discussion in the subject. The horrendous stories of torture appear in prime slots of television channels magazines and newspapers with passionate and furious critics adding to the fervor. Disappointingly, these stories remain just stories for the masses to read, lament on and eventually dismiss as yet...

Sports sans Sportsmanship Sports events are essentially social in character. They facilitate the coming together of people from various parts of the country, at a national level, and various parts of the world, at the international level. Sports make people cross cultural barriers and speak a language that is understood by all. The World Sports Congress, held in New Delhi, emphasised that sports could play a major role in promoting and...

Laughter, Truth, and Universality Doctors don’t like their ilk to be portrayed in a bad light in fiction or film, at least in India. The same goes for our nurses, teachers, policemen and any number of professionals. And let us not forget lawyers who would readily hold the entire law courts to ransom at the sign of slightest of slights, imagined or real. If one member of any profession is shown...

Foreign Media in India With India adopting the economic reform programme in the 1990s, foreign companies and establishments have been making their presence felt in the Indian scene. The various sectors of domestic industry one after the other have witnessed external competition with the unfurling of the country’s globalisation policies. Therefore, not surprisingly, the media’s turn has come as well. Doors have already been opened to the foreign electronic media. The...