What is Wrong With Indian Cricket?   Ever since Australia and England started playing Test Cricket, cricket has travelled a long way. Since then a number of changes have also taken place in the structure as well as in the format of the game. The game of cricket took its birth in India when this country was under the British rule and thus, like English language, cricket too can be rightly...

Banning Smoking in Railways in India   “Cigarette smoking is injurious to health”—every packet of cigarettes carries this warning. Scientists have proved that smoking a cigarette shortens the smoker’s life by 51/2 minutes. Yet very few are able to kick up this habit, which has lately come in for widespread criticism and legislation not only in India but in most of the western world as well. Like cannabis, hooch, opium and...

How Much Money Does A Man Need?   In his famous short story, ‘How much land does a man need ?” Leo Tolstoy describes man’s greed for land. In the end, however, a man requires just six feet of ground for his grave. Similarly, in today’s materialistic world of cut-throat competition, we run after money and, in this mad pursuit, we trample underfoot all our values. Man today has not been...