India’s Population and Its Economic Implications   POINTS TO DEVELOP Billion- mark in numbers crossed in 2000. Complexity of Indian demography. Economic implications include impact of populations growth on economic development in the contexts of (i) agriculture (ii) environment and (iii) quality of life. Can we turn the numbers to advantage? Conclusion: Planning necessary to stabilize population level so as not to derail socio- economic development process.   Aastha was born...

Privatisation of the Economy     POINTS TO DEVELOP Growing privatizations the world over. Privatisation – meaning, forms, aims causes. Problems with privatisation. Prerequisites identified. History of privatisation-beginning with Britain. India begins privatisation in India. Reasons and circumstances. An account of privatisation in India. Problems with Indian pricatisation. measures suggested. Conclusion. There is a lot of euphoria today over privatisation as a panacea to fiscal deficits and other economic ills. However,...

Economic Liberalisation- Challenges before India     POINTS TO DEVELOP Concept and origin of liberalized economy. India’s liberalization efforts and global context. Purpose. Impact- economic and social; criticism. Challenges- factors that would influence the success of the measures. A cautious effort and good governance required.   As the Industrial Revolution entered its mature stage in the Europe of nineteenth century, liberalism began to spread, and with it the doctrine of ‘laissez-faire’...

Can Terrorism be justified?   POINTS TO DEVELOP 1. Incidents of terrorism and definition of terrorism. Examining the causes and growth of terrorism worldwide. Differences between terrorist activity and other acts involving violence. Focus of terrorist violence –innocent people – which is what is unjustifiable. Terrorism in its fight for rights shows no repect for others’ rights – so it cannot be justified. It is not the only way to achieve...

The Changing face of Terrorism POINT TO DEVELOP Terrorism is not a new phenomenon. Recently terrorist attacks have increased and have manifested changes : they are by smaller groups, more brutal, more sophisticated with technological advances. There is more interaction among terrorist groups facilitating operation and making it difficult to tackle. shift of focus form ideology to ethnic, religious of ‘nationalistic’ or even ‘economic’ variety. Support from legitimate foreign governments adds...

Torture : The living Death Points to Develop: It takes a war or custodial death to make the subject of torture topical, only to be soon forgotten. But it is a practice continuing form the past to this day. In this past, torture was a legal procedure to extract confession or to punish. Historical overview of torture under various kinds of regimes shows its universal practice and similarity in forms. Examples...

Human Rights and the Indian Armed Forces POINTS TO DEVELOP Both terrorism and anti-terrorism operations infringe upon the human rights of affected civil societies. Provisions for protection of human rights exist both at the international and national levels. Several international laws are aimed at restricting the use of violence against those not involved in fighting. Terrorism cannot be tolerated but at the same time human rights have to be safeguarded. While...