Two Contradictory faces of human nature “PEACE HATH ITS VICTORIES NO LESS RENOWNED THAN WAR” Two contradictory forces of human nature-pugnacity and love of peace-have been struggling from times immemorial for supremacy. If was is the natural urge of man and the spontaneous growth of his pugnacious nature then peace is the demand of a social life and pre-requisite of social cohesion. War results in the victor and the vanquished,...

  Freedom is the birth-right of man “MAN IS BORN FREE BUT EVERY WHERE HE IS IN CHAINS” Freedom is the birth right of man. Life is reduced to a meaningless drift towards and end if man does not enjoy freedom. Freedom of speech helps in the development of the personality of man, his ideologies are trimmed into a shape, his ideas have a better flowering. Till a person speaks out...

Modernity Modernity is a Question not of Time but of Outlook Modernity does not mean contemporariness of certain ideas, or ideals. Even the contemporary ideas may be old enough to be considered modern, their inspiration can be traced back to ideas of the past. Naturally they become quite old in their spirit. If an idea emerges out of the present circumstances even then it is not modern. In fact modernity lies...

The Past is the root of the Present TIME PAST AND TIME FUTURE, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AND WHAT HAS BEEN, POINT TO ONE END, WHICH IS ALWAYS PRESENT The past is the root of the present whereas the present is the seed of the future; the pastness of the past has its present too. If the present is the culmination of the past, it is also the take-off stage for...

Democracy and Dictatorship  “DEMOCRACY SUBSTITUTES ELECTIONS BY THE INCOMPETENT MANY FOR THE CORRUPT FEW” The 18th century poet, Alexander Pope correctly said, “For forms of government let fools contest, whichever administered best is best”. If dictatorship is the tyranny of one, aristocracy is the exploitation of the many and democracy is the cult of incompetence. A dictator is generally and efficient administrator whereas ministers, are inexperienced so bad administrators. Man has...

Role of Religion “Irreligion is our Malady, Religion the Only Cure” Religion, as bundle of myths and miracles, doctrines and beliefs has become outdated. The miracles and mysteries of magic and religion have yielded place to new ones of science. Belief is no longer a matter of faith, it is based on reason; intellectual faith has replaced emotional attachment. “Unless religion sheds its primitive cosmology, myths and miracles, it is likely...

  Indian Architectural Skills “It is better to Build Castles in the Air than to build on the Ground” The monuments of architectural skill, the symbols of human ingenuity – the Taj in India, Pyramids of Egypt, hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Leaning Tower of Pisa – are subject to decay. Either the inevitable and inexorable time writes their epitaphs or man, blinded by the halo of his glory or...

  Politics is an Art of Gaining power and the craft of retaining it “To reign in hell is better than to be ruled in heaven”, is what Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost believes. In no way it is the self-consolation of a defeated angel nor a humble resignation to the ministers of fate; it is the ingrained ambition of all the earthly people. Physical superiority had given more exalted status...