Casteism and Electoral Politics in India It is an established fact that no democratic system is immune to religious and casteist influences. The fate of the candidates contesting an election is directly proportional to the sectarian votes they can garner. All political parties make tall claims in their election manifestoes, cleverly concealing their casteist and parochial bias. Casteism, as practiced in India, is the bane of our body politic today. The...

Development of Tourism in India Tourism is expanding the fastest and is the most rewarding industry of the modern world. International tourism constitutes the invisible export trade. No wonder, then, that some more enterprising countries have turned this flourishing industry into a means of spinning money. In recent years, India too has woken up to this great reality and concerted efforts are now being made to develop and promote this foreign-exchange-earning...

Advantages and Disadvantages of The Present Educational System in India Although reforms have been introduced from time to time to make our education system in tune with the needs of the day, it still remains archaic and obsolete. We are still producing an army of clerks and white-collar workers through the system that was introduced by Macaulay more than a hundred and fifty years ago. The present system needs far-reaching reforms...

Should Students Participate in Politics? Politics has been called the last refuge of a scoundrel. A person, who has been rejected by decent society or who himself can- not conform to the norms and values of a decent society, usually takes to politics. Most politicians are self-centered, unscrupulous and valueless; they are held responsible for most ills of the society today. In this context, it is not advisable for students to...

The Ganga River  Ganga is the most important of all rivers of India. She is about 2500 km long. She is held in high esteem by the Hindus who believe that she was brought by Bhagirathi from heavens. She rises from the Gangotri, flows through the Himalayas and entered the plains at Haridwar. When she reaches Allahabad, the Yamuna also joins her, so it is called ‘Sangam’ or Triveni, Then it...

The Saddest Day in My Life Life is nothing but a sum total of various events and happenings. Some of these happenings and events give us happiness and satisfaction. We want to preserve them in our memory, while there are others which bring sadness and disappointment. One likes to forget such events. It is the very nature of the events of a day that makes it important or otherwise. There have...

The Pen is Mightier than the Sword “If I got a sword, I shall kill thee, O my mighty master! but if thou give me a mighty pen, mightier than the sword of Alexander, I shall keep thy name immortally fresh,” thus said Bismark to his teacher Father Roadard. The controversy, whether the sword is mightier than the pen or it is the pen which can overwhelm the sword, has been...