National Security   The question who lives if India die is neither hypothetical nor hallucinatory. Economically, the world may have become a ‘global village’ but politically, the world is still dotted with Nation-States demarcated by distinct as well as vague boundaries, giving rise to occasional skirmishes and subtle but sinister moves to alter the balance of power. If, the paradigms of national security are determined by well-defined or natural dividers like...

Suicide Acts   Since the beginning of time, people have been committing suicide. Suicide is a self-inflicted death, or suicide, can be defined as “choosing the mode, time, situation, or occasion for ending one’s life.” In general, the word suicide has a negative connotation and is looked upon unfavourably. Yet in some circumstances, killing oneself can be considered acceptable or even the right thing to do. Since it’s difficult to differentiate...

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...