Passages with Solved Precis In the good old days of the great King Ashoka, a sense of justice, it is said prevented any Indian king from attempting conquest beyond the limits of India. It is true that it was the ambition of the most powerful kings to be Chakravarti or ruler of the world. But world they thought of was confined to India. Beyond its natural frontiers they had no ambitions....

Passages with Solved Precis People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an accepted belief that if people only had plenty of money, they would be happy and useful and get more out of life. As a rule there is more genuine satisfaction in life and more attained from life in the humble cottages of the poor man than in the palaces of the rich. I...

Passages with Solved Precis During the Gupta period the people enjoyed perfect religious freedom. The emperors used to treat monks belonging to various religious denominations with kindness and they used to give them much money by way of charity though they themselves belonged to the Brahmanical creed. Thus, learned Buddhist monks used to reside in the monasteries at Patliputra and many Buddhists used to come from far and near to study...

Passages with Solved Precis India is supposed to be a religious country above everything else. The spectacle of what is called religion in India and elsewhere had filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost, always it seems to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma, bigotry, superposition and exploitation, and the preservation of the vested interests. And, yet,...

Passages with Solved Precis There is a wonderful spirit of sociality in the brute creation and this propensity seems not to be confined to animals of the same species. Even great disparity of kind and size does not always prevent social advances and mutual fellowship. A very intelligent and observant person had assured me that, in the former part of his life, keeping but one horse, he happened also, on tame,...

Passages with Solved Precis There is also the price effect. A fall in output usually leads to rise in prices. With a basic commodity like food grains, which has substantial weight age in the cost of living index, a rise in prices can set off an all-round inflationary spiral. Alternatively, Government may well off-set this initial price rise by making up the produce ion short fall, as it did this year,...

Passages with Solved Precis The Asian Games may after all be held as scheduled, but both at Delhi and Rai. The Prime Minister is reported to have agreed to split the Games so that the events are held smoothly and efficiently. She is expected to announce her decision on April 14-15. Some people contend that Delhi’s beauty will get diminished if stadium are constructed here. But where say that Delhi’s beauty...

Passages with Solved Precis Internationally, the U.S. dilemma in Iran has certainly had its effect on allies and adversaries alike. The problem for Mr. Carter is that Iran is a big oil producer and supplies a considerable portion of the energy, need of America’s allies, particularly of Japan and West Germany. The allies are understandably reluctant to go the whole hog with punitive measures suggested by Washington, for two reasons: firstly,...