Problems in Indian Education System Our education system is grossly inadequate in meeting the standards of education that many other countries have developed. Our education system, which does not have a national standard for goals, curriculum, or regulations, with other countries that do but the findings nevertheless reflect the need for change. Our education system at this time is regulated by states which implement their own curriculum, set their own goals...

Villages of India   Scattered throughout India are approximately 5,00,000 villages. It is in villages that India’s most basic business—agriculture—takes place. Here, in the face of vicissitudes of all kinds, farmers follow time-tested as well as innovative methods of growing wheat, rice, lentils, vegetables, fruits, and many other crops in order to accomplish the challenging task of feeding themselves and the nation. Here, too, flourish many of India’s most-valued cultural forms....

Ethics in Doctor’s Profession   Medical ethics, a branch of ethics, deals with moral decisions in various aspects of medicine. The Hippocratic Oath is the most enduring tradition in medicine that has been the guiding ethical code for physicians since ancient Greece, and has eventually become the basis of all medical ethics. In its most compelling portions, it emphasizes the profundity of the medical agreement, the patient dignity, the confidentiality of...

India: A Land Of Festivals   India is a land of festivals and festivities. These festivals are basically meant to express gratitude to the forces of nature that help the human beings to produce wealth of food from tilling the land, to procreate and bring to life best offspring, to harness energy resources from water, air, and sun energy. Thus sun, air, water (rivers, seas, and ocean) trees and forest (that...

Cyber Relationships   Life is all about relationships. Family, friends, colleagues, neighbours-the list is endless. Every day you come across a set of people and bond a relationship with them. Be it the florist whom you cross every Sunday while walking to the church or your best friend’s cousin with whom you play baseball after school – the bottom line is that you, consciously or unconsciously, form a bond with people...

Competitors are Not Rivals   Most of the classical dictionaries use them as synonyms, but do they truly point to the same piece of cake? We all live in a competitive scenario, but then are we all rivals? The Webster dictionary puts competition, conflict, emulation, strife, striving, tug-of-war, and warfare as all synonyms for rivalry. Both symbolize the same: a contest among opponents for a coveted prize or honour. Yet close...

Cricket Can End Indo-Pak Rivalry   There is no other game that has grabbed the attention of the South-Asian countries as much as cricket. Sports analysts can talk at length about the damage that it has done to other sport but it is of no use. Ask any lad who his favourite hero is and you are sure to get the name of a cricketing icon and most likely it would...

India Should Become Proactive To Win The country that the world had, at best, learnt to live with, and at worst, expected only poverty, superstition and illiteracy from, India, has surprised even its most virulent critics in the past decade. While its contribution to the world’s technological progress both in quality and quantity is, to put it modestly, remarkable, in other areas, too, it hasn’t been found wanting. That India has...