Passages with Solved Precis If by some magic you could be granted one quick wish, perhaps you might wish to be popular. Being popular means being liked by a lot of people instead of just a few close friends and that is a big wish. All the same you, too, can be well liked if you are willing to be on guard against the perils of popularity. Let us consider some...

Passages with Solved Precis Ashoka was one of the noblest kings that history has ever produced. He was always anxious for the welfare of the people and he imparted even handed justice to all concerned. He had appointed censors to reform the people. They were expected to see that the Law of Piety was followed by the people. He used to help the needy and he used to provide all the...

Passages with Solved Precis As material civilisation advances and the supply of available goods and services increases, man’s needs correspondingly, multiply. Advertising plays a key role in this never-ending process by stimulating the public’s desire for certain products, and thereby promoting the sales thereof, until it has, in effect, created new needs, real or supposed, where there were none before. A familiar example is the motor car -once a rare and...

Passages with Solved Precis In India, no one section of the community seems to miss an opportunity to go on strike. Almost, every day we read in the newspapers of some one or the other going on strike, quite often for the flimsier reasons one can imagine. Strike is a legitimate weapon of the workers to get better pay, shorter hours of work and better working conditions when all the other...

Passages with Solved Precis The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want o read the second time even more than we wanted to read it the first time; and every additional time that we read it we find new meanings and new beauties in it. A book that a person of education and good...

Passages with Solved Precis Every ancient tradition was similarly influenced by religion. Even in Europe, it is only during the last two or three centuries that the influence of Christianity has declined to a certain extent. To the extent that the religion of a particular people is among the first flowerings of a people’s individuality, it is almost tautologies to suggest that their culture was influenced by their religion. Since, culture,...

Passages with Solved Precis Whither goeth the modern man? Is he not lost in the splendour of the materialistic pleasures? Has he not turned a mammon-worshipper? Doesn’t he believe in the precepts of exterior glamour? How far has the western materialism affected the body-politic in India, has yet to be gauged by the psycho-analysts. We know that the modern system of education has not only paralysed the Indian society, but on...

Passages with Solved Precis Fascism, in the words of Mussolini, believes that ‘war alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it’. Again a doctrine which is founded on the harmful postulate of peace is hostile to Fascism. The Fascist then is one who believes that the bombardment of open towns with fire, poison...