Communal Harmony  Essay No. 01 Fifty year on, the spectre of Communal Harmony still haunts us. We saw its macabre form during the trauma of partition. How far the British played `mischievous game in dividing Hindus and Muslims during the last phase of empire will be debated for decades to come. Separate electorate was the most pernicious practice which divided Hindus and Muslims and Sikhs. It struck a blow to the...

Universal Human Rights   We hear a lot about human rights the negative way, the way these rights are being denied, abused and compromised in India and in almost every other country subtly or overtly. Thanks to awareness, the proliferation of laws, the setting up of watch dog commissions and the prying eyes of all powerful media, abuses and violations of human rights are being exposed and the guilty pulled by...

Role of Women in Nation-Building   Our women have a great part to play in the progress of our country as the mental and physical contact of women with life is much more lasting and comprehensive than of men. For the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. “In woman is hidden the revolutionary energy which can establish paradise on this earth.” Women is the magnificent creation of God, a...

Poverty in India and How to Remove It   “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” –Aristotle “Now what does this, let him be poor, means ? It means let him be weak, let him become a nucleus of disease, let him be a standing exhibition and example of ugliness and dirt.” –G.B. Shaw The bewildering paradox the world over not excluding India, is that there is enough food but...

World Trade Organization (W.T.O.)   The proposal to have an international trade organisation was mooted first in 1945 at the world war II. During the outer war periods, 1919 and 1939 free flow of international trade has been badly disrupted by various European countries such as U.S.A., Canada and Japan. They raised high tariff walls and importing quota restrictions in import goods into them, while at the same time resorting to...

Value Added Tax (VAT) In the earlier existing system before VAT was implemented sales tax on most products is paid by the manufacturer not by the retailer and on very few products by the wholesaler which means most traders don’t have to keep detailed books of accounts. Worse, most do not declare their sales and income correctly. The result massive theft of tax. A few years ago a large chain of...

Industrial Revolution in India Or The Beginning of Industrial Era in India In any country, be it least developed under developed or advanced, the industrial sectors from the sheet anchor for the generation and development of country’s productive forces. There is a strong case for industrialization of countries like India which has vast manpower, large and varied resources and continental dimensions. The first plan was not as important as far as...