“Only the youth can save India and the world from dismal gloom,” said Jawaharlal Nehru. They are the backbone of a nation. Only the youth can help achieve national objective, make a country great and powerful. It is imperative, therefore, that every young man and woman understand his or her responsibility towards the nation and contribute their mite in the task of nation building. With the passing of the Constitution (61st...

Uses of A Public Library A public library is an institution which maintains a large collection of books, newspapers and magazines for the use of general public. Thus, a library is a rich treasure-house of knowledge. A little leisure spent in it, profits us more than a lot of time spent in the world outside. It has been rightly observed that an hour in a good library is worth an age...

Impact of Television on Cultural Values Television is one of the miracles of science. It has revolutionised the human outlook and is serving as a faithful servant to humanity. Mankind is obliged to Baird, who invented the television and made it possible to present moving, talking, living and breathing pictures of men and events on screen. It has influenced our culture in every respect. Man is born in the stream of...

Relevance of Gandhi Today In this materialistic age, where economics has become all-important and nuclear power a must, the post-Independence generation has begun to consider Gandhi and his principles totally irrelevant in the present context. They think that the Mahatma belonged to a bygone era and his ideas have become obsolete. But, is it really so? Is Gandhi irrelevant today with all his lofty ideals? No Not at all. On the...

If I Were a Politician Today, an impression has gained ground in India that politics is the last resort of a scoundrel and, therefore, every politician is a scoundrel in his own right. We often hear people around us saying that ‘Politics is a very dirty game’. Every sort of person (wrong-doer) but a politician can be reformed and so on and so forth. Such is the popular apathy towards the...

Tourism and Education The two words, Tourism and Education are closely interrelated. If education means the harmonious development of our body, mind and soul, then tourism has certainly a great role to play in the process of education. In Europe and America it is rightly considered to be an integral part of education. Every student in these countries, after finishing his/her educational career, is expected to undertake a tour of at...

An Ideal Civil Servant A Civil Servant is a person employed to deal with the affairs of Union or a State and is paid from the Consolidated Fund of the Government of India or from the Consolidated Fund of the State concerned, as the case may be. A Civil Servant is popularly known as a public servant, because he draws his salary, perks, etc., from the revenues paid by the general...

Is Defence Preparedness The Best Guarantee For Peace?   Instead of talking of war to root out war, people now talk of defence-preparedness as the best guarantee for peace. Nations are so much obsessed with this slogan that at t he present moment there is a mad race for piling up armaments. Even the poorest of the poor countries, which cannot provide two square meals to their citizens are forced to...