Lessons We Can Learn From History   History is a record of facts and events, concerning a country and its people, from earliest times to the present day. It is not a catalogue of dates. It is life, light and romance. Current events being matters within our knowledge, the chief function of history is to give us a glimpse of the past. As one writer puts it, “What history has to...

The Place of Woman in Indian Society   Man and woman are like two wheels of a carriage. The life’ of one without the other is incomplete. Neither man nor woman can be true to what they are, if either of them leads an isolated life. Man and woman both contribute to the development of each other’s personality. Our ancient scriptures assigned woman a place higher than man. It was believed...

Youth is a Blunder, Manhood A Struggle And Old Age A Regret     Life is a kaleidoscopic spectacle, presenting varying aspects at various stages. To survey the progress of a person from childhood to old age is indeed very revealing. The years of childhood and boyhood are a period free from cares or earnestness: it is only in the youth that one comes to taste some of the realities of...

What Ails Indian Sports and Games? One of the greatest degradations that has occurred in our country during the second half of the twentieth century, has been in the field of sports and games. The only performance of note has been the gold medal in hockey won at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and the triumph at the 1983 World Cup Cricket Championships in England. But these occasional triumphs do not...

Indian Culture in Daily Life   Culture has been defined by Mathew Arnold in Literature and Dogma as the desire and quest to “know the best that has been said and thought in the world”. It appears to be liberal and broad view of culture, but it is not comprehensive. Culture must be a total product of character and not merely an acquisition or an impulse from within. “A nation without...

My Vision of India in 2020   India is a developing country. It has made rapid progress in all the spheres after its independence, viz., agriculture, industrialization, urbanization, etc. To visualize what India would be in 2020 AD in all the spheres is not an easy task. Thinking of people, technologies and mechanism are changing so fast that it is difficult to predict the future aspect. India is making progress step...

 New Education Policy   Education is the most important national activity, the backbone of a country’s progress. It helps to strengthen the very fabric of nation “to produce men of education enlightenment and character”. The New Education Policy is likely to lead to 100 per cent literacy in the 15-35 age-groups in the wake of the century. The teachers and the taught as well as the various Government agencies are going...

Education for Good Citizenship   According to Diogenes, “The foundation of every State is the education of its youth”. Education is thus the most important constituent of good citizenship. It implies cultivation of the’ mind to make life tolerable and the acquisition of skill for making it possible. The strength of a nation lies more in the quality of its people than in its material resources. A nation of weaklings can...