Uses and Abuses of Censorship   Censorship is the laws concerned with state restrictions on the expression, the publication, and the dissemination of information. In a democracy, freedom from censorship is an important protection of particular freedom, especially freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Censorship and the ideology supporting it go back to ancient times. Every society has had customs, taboos, or laws by which speech, play, dress, religious...

The Institution of Marriage Marriage is the silken tie of love and esteem that two persons usually unrelated by blood. It is the oldest way of getting a man and woman together to live life in a society and have the closest ever relations with each other, bound only by love and confidence which has no limits and cannot be broken unless there is a loss of mutual trust and understanding....

The Problems of Modern Youth   Unrest among youth has been a problem since time immemorial. It was so in the past and it shall be so in future as well, howsoever glamorous and glittering the social fabric might become and however secure and stable they might feel under the new dispensation. The young have never rested on their past laurels nor have they felt contented with their present possibilities. The...

Problems of Urban Life   Modern urban life has produced entirely a new environment, a new standard of life and a quite changed circumstance with the new inputs  of technology. It has created lots of new problems which were quite unknown to the people of yesterday. As the world today is changing rapidly, more rapidly than most of us can imagine or are at least prepared for. Till recently men lived...

Death Penalty Should Be Avoided   Hanging, g firing squad, electrocution, gas and lethal injection are all methods of execution used by the American government to Punish murderers. Thirty-eight out of fifty states and Washington DC have the death penalty as a method of punishment. Lynching, in contrast to capital punishment, is the unauthorized, illegal use of death as a punishment. The usual alternative to the death penalty is long-term or...

Animal Rights Animal Rights are the moral right of animals to be treated with respect and without exploitation. Some people believe that animals have rights just as human beings have rights; opinions range from extreme views of total animal liberation by animal rights activists to the practical improvement of the relationship between animals and humans as shown by legislation, and animal welfare organizations such as the Royal Society for the Prevention...

The Monster of -Aids will Wipe out Humanity   More than 30 million people around the world are currently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). New HIV infections have levelled off or even declined in most developed countries, but the virus is spreading rapidly through much of the developing world. In some areas of sub-Saharan Africa, one in four adults are...

The Roots of Dowry System   Particularly in Indian societies the dowry forms part of an exchange of wealth between intermarrying families; it is often accompanied by some payment made by the groom to the bride’s family, called the bride price or bride wealth. Bride wealth is still a fundamental part of certain African cultures, whereas dowry payments have most often been found in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and some European...