Should Students Participate in Politics? Politics has been called the last refuge of a scoundrel. A person, who has been rejected by decent society or who himself can- not conform to the norms and values of a decent society, usually takes to politics. Most politicians are self-centered, unscrupulous and valueless; they are held responsible for most ills of the society today. In this context, it is not advisable for students to...

The Ganga River  Ganga is the most important of all rivers of India. She is about 2500 km long. She is held in high esteem by the Hindus who believe that she was brought by Bhagirathi from heavens. She rises from the Gangotri, flows through the Himalayas and entered the plains at Haridwar. When she reaches Allahabad, the Yamuna also joins her, so it is called ‘Sangam’ or Triveni, Then it...

The Saddest Day in My Life Life is nothing but a sum total of various events and happenings. Some of these happenings and events give us happiness and satisfaction. We want to preserve them in our memory, while there are others which bring sadness and disappointment. One likes to forget such events. It is the very nature of the events of a day that makes it important or otherwise. There have...

The Pen is Mightier than the Sword “If I got a sword, I shall kill thee, O my mighty master! but if thou give me a mighty pen, mightier than the sword of Alexander, I shall keep thy name immortally fresh,” thus said Bismark to his teacher Father Roadard. The controversy, whether the sword is mightier than the pen or it is the pen which can overwhelm the sword, has been...

A Journey by Train A railway journey is a very useful experience. We meet different kinds of people. The castes becomes meaningless for the travellers. They become sympathetic towards each other. A railway journey thus widens our outlook. It leads to oneness and unity. I also had a chance to enjoy a railway journey. I received an invitation from my elder brother to go to Shimla for a change. I jumped...

An Educational Tours Travelling as a means of education is as old as civilisation. We often read of foreign travelers coming to the ancient Indian seats of learning. Gentlemen scholars in the Middle Ages in Europe organised Grand Tours to Greece and Italy to quench their thirst for knowledge. Most of the religions of the world owe their great progress to travelling missionaries. Organised educational tours, however, are of recent origin,...

My Favourite Character in Fiction A fiction or a novel is an image of life, though in an unusual form. The characters in a fiction are indeed imaginary, yet they certainly represent the actual life we lead in society and in the world at large. This is the reason why there are certain characters in fiction which fascinate us so much. My favorite character in fiction is David, hero of Dickens’...

India: The Tourists’ Paradise India is the tourists’ paradise. There is no doubt in it. Some countries in the world have nothing about them to boast of. There is no historical building, no temple, and no place of art or architecture, no beautiful scene or sights of Nature. Some countries have one thing or the other. But India is rich in all these things. It is indeed the tourists’ paradise. Kashmir...