Examinations are a necessary evil Essay No. 01                      “Farishtay  bhi cheekh utthen rubaru-i-imtehan                    Ye insaan hi hai ho diye jata hai imtehan-pe-imtehan”   Even ten angles cry aloud before the examination. It is only man who repeatedly takes the examination. This may sound philosophical. But this is a also reality to the day. Examinations are an age-old practice of evaluating students’  god  had tested the devotion of...

Violence on the increase Essay No. 01 Introduction : Human civilization has come a long way from the Stone Age. Yet man continues to be violent in his conduct. In fact  , violence has increased today. A man cannot walk on the street without looking over his shoulder because of fear of assault. Top leaders of the nation, as well as retired military generals , are assassinated in broad daylight. The...

Don’t ban capital punishment     Those who oppose capital punishment would rather have us believe that it is applied indiscriminately in each in each and every case related to some heinous crime. Death penalty is awarded and should b awarded as the  last resort on the part of the judicial authority to apply it only in cases where human sensitivity touches the abyss of degeneration.           We must remember that...

The great end of life is not knowledge but action   Knowledge is an essential pre-requisite , a sine –qua non, without which no meaningful action is possible. Knowledge enriches the quality of life, which is why people dedicate entire lives to the pursuit an attainment of knowledge. Knowledge has been equated with enlightenment, a certain broadening of vision, which has always been valued and venerated. Some- times the level of...

The test of democracy is the freedom of criticism   The world democracy is derived from a conjunction of two Greek words “demos” meaning people and “krasi” which means rule. Thus democracy is when people choose to rule themselves or in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “government by the people , of the people , for the people”. Obviously everyone in the country  cannot possibly take part in the government so...

Road Rage and Democratic Values   Recently it was reported that a woman driver who had the temerity not to allow a car to overtake her; at the first instance the vehicle behind her was able to overtake hers, its driver stopped right in front to her, blocking her way, and he and his companions got out and shot her. Unbelievable? In fact, this kind of incident is becoming only too...

Democracy in India The Indian voters have off and on shown their strength, thrown out one government and brought in another. The elections, conducted more or less peacefully, have, on the whole proved that democracy – at least in its electoral aspect – is well- entrenched in India. Indeed, Indian democracy is thriving on the basis of other criteria as well- campaigning is free and open with no restriction on any...

How free are we? Inevitably, on the eve of every August 15, the thought of freedom comes to mind. And one wonders how precarious that freedom is.           We boast of independence from the foreign yoke, freedom form colonialism, democracy, free elections. Yet each one of those freedoms has its own obverse, each one has bread situations in which we are not free. We may be free of the foreign rulers,...