Banning Smoking in Railways in India   “Cigarette smoking is injurious to health”—every packet of cigarettes carries this warning. Scientists have proved that smoking a cigarette shortens the smoker’s life by 51/2 minutes. Yet very few are able to kick up this habit, which has lately come in for widespread criticism and legislation not only in India but in most of the western world as well. Like cannabis, hooch, opium and...

How Much Money Does A Man Need?   In his famous short story, ‘How much land does a man need ?” Leo Tolstoy describes man’s greed for land. In the end, however, a man requires just six feet of ground for his grave. Similarly, in today’s materialistic world of cut-throat competition, we run after money and, in this mad pursuit, we trample underfoot all our values. Man today has not been...

To Be Prepared For War is one of The Most Effective Means of Preserving Peace   War to root out war is the cry of the pacifists today. It is undoubtedly paradoxical to say that peace can be established by war. But there are people of utmost importance in the world who believe in this. General McArthur was one of those modern heroes who felt inspired to wage war to root...

Social Responsibility of Business   Business may be defined as an economic activity carried on in a country, particularly the activity in which other individuals besides the businessman himself are concerned. By its very definition it is a social process wherein individuals carry on common activities making their contribution to the country’s economy and at the same time living on the profit earned from the business. Just as the quality of...

Enjoyment   Living is an art. It is the most complicated art and is based upon the scientific application of the good principles of living, which govern the behaviour and attitude of a human being. Life to some is just an empty dream and to others it is a zeal, pleasure and duty. Some live for enjoyment. They would like to eat, drink and be merry without caring for tomorrow, which...

Student Participation in The Administration of Educational Institutions   The student problem has posed itself as one of the most difficult in modern societies. Never before in the history of mankind has this problem been so acute. Yet there has never been so systematic an effort, on so stupendous a scale, as now throughout the world to overcome this problem. Never before was the university campus under such grip of demonstrations,...

Ends and Means   Gandhiji was an exponent of the principle that the means were as important as the end. He asserted that if a good or lofty end was achieved through questionable or improper ‘means, it was not worth its achievement. He declared that in such cases, the accomplishment of the end would be only illusionary and transitory. The incorrect and immoral means adopted would finally nullify and neutralize the...

Modernity   Modernity is a movement for a self-conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression. Since the earliest times, human society has comprised persons who are orthodox, believing in rituals and superstitions and others who are progressive and modern and can look ahead. The basic difference between the modern and the orthodox in different ages, however, arises from the fact that human thought and practice...