Fast Food – A Disastrous Lifestyle We live in a fast world…and have no time …not even to fulfill our basic need …Food. This is where fast food steps in. Fast food is any food that is quick, convenient, and usually inexpensive and typically refers to food sold in a restaurant and /or served to the customer in a packaged form for take away. It’s cheap, convenient and often indulgently delicious....

Alternate Therapies Alternate therapy means healing practices that differ from modern medicine as it is practiced in developed countries. A typical definition would be “every available approach to healing that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine”. Richard Dawkins, Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, defines alternative medicine as a “…set of practices which cannot be tested, refuse to be tested, or consistently fail tests. If...

Health and Nutrition The World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’; and nutrition as an input to and foundation for health and development A healthy body is a healthy adage that has stood the test of time. Nutrition is the most important factor in maintaining and keeping good health Nutrition begins with food and...

The Human Body – A Boon The human body is such a “perfect machine”; it could not have naturally evolved. A particular creature having such an unusual, perfectly-designed body with a unique system of skills and traits makes one believe that there’s no way this could have just happened. The human body is the most wonderful and perfect machine in the world. With care, it should last many years. With abuse...

Social Reforms in India Social means ‘pertaining to life in an organized community’, and Reform means ‘to transform or to amend’. Thus, social reforms imply amending the ills pertaining to life which are prevalent in the community. India possesses tremendous contrasts and enormous ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity. Race, language, status and class are the main reasons of social inequality and discrimination. Indian intellectuals have seized upon caste divisions, untouchability, religious...

Kashmir: Indo – Pak Relations The present conflict and consequent tense relations between India and Pakistan over Kashmir started in 1947 when the British left. The partition of India is not only a turning point in the history of the Indian subcontinent, but a signal event in world history as well. Preceding partition, India was directly under Crown rule. The British in order to perpetuate their rule had divided the Indian...

National Integration – The Indian Perspective Integration is ‘unification into a whole of all the diverse elements in a community’. National integration thus implies unification of the diverse populace of the country. India is a secular country of rich cultural heritage with diverse races, religions, languages, castes, customs and traditions. Despite this diversity, India has always had a basic unity and distinctive identity. A major challenge was faced soon after independence...