Role of Vitamins in Our Life Every food almost has some vitamins. Vitamins are organic substance which are essential for the growth of the body and are required in small amounts. Their deficiency causes sickness and stunted growth. Vitamin A (retinol) is found in foods of animal origin viz., shark, liver oils, eggs, green vegetables. Carotene is also a source of Vitamin A. It is a yellow pigment found in vegetable...

Importance of Mental Health    Mental health is the successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people. It is the ability to adapt to change and cope with adversity, from early childhood until late life. It is the spring board of thinking and communication skills, learning emotional growth, resilience and self esteem. It is a state of mind in which a person thinks, feels and...

Bureaucracy: A Boon or a Bane Bureaucracy is the sovereign factor in public administration. It is also called manpower management, personnel management, labour welfare management and so on. But bureaucracy has wider meaning; it deals with classification, recruitment promotion compensation, discipline and retirement benefits of the personnel in government. According to Encyclopedia of Britannica “Bureaucracy is a body of professional, full time officials employed in the civil affairs of a state...

Right and Duties Go Together   “The rights and duties are wedded to each other. The biggest rights in the world are achieved through service and sacrifice.” —Prem Chand   Today’s world is another great mire in the ominous darkness of which one only hears confused protestations and cries of alarm to ensure each one’s rights. Old and young, high and low, men and women all clamour for their rights unmindful...

Human Values    What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! How infinite in faculties In form and making, how express and adorable In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how a good The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. Shakespeare’s evocation of the infinite faculties of man represents the full faith of his age in man’s ability to scale the heights of...

Dowry: A Curse for Society   Wanted beautiful, fair, tall, homely graduate Bengali girl. For kayastha Budhya handsome groom. Marketing officer a MNCs 28/174/10,000 Graduate. Father scientist, owns 2-1/2 storied house. This advertisement published in leading dailies bears testimony to the fact that marriage in Indian society has undergone a transformation. Stripped of it purely sacred intentions, marriage has now offered itself as the platform of transaction of material belongings and...