Sports sans Sportsmanship Sports events are essentially social in character. They facilitate the coming together of people from various parts of the country, at a national level, and various parts of the world, at the international level. Sports make people cross cultural barriers and speak a language that is understood by all. The World Sports Congress, held in New Delhi, emphasised that sports could play a major role in promoting and...

Laughter, Truth, and Universality Doctors don’t like their ilk to be portrayed in a bad light in fiction or film, at least in India. The same goes for our nurses, teachers, policemen and any number of professionals. And let us not forget lawyers who would readily hold the entire law courts to ransom at the sign of slightest of slights, imagined or real. If one member of any profession is shown...

Foreign Media in India With India adopting the economic reform programme in the 1990s, foreign companies and establishments have been making their presence felt in the Indian scene. The various sectors of domestic industry one after the other have witnessed external competition with the unfurling of the country’s globalisation policies. Therefore, not surprisingly, the media’s turn has come as well. Doors have already been opened to the foreign electronic media. The...

The Child is the Father of Man The celebrated English poet, William Wordsworth said, “The Child is the Father of Man.” Indeed, a seed of the oak or the banyan tree is tiny, but in a matter of years, it is transformed into a huge tree. Perhaps, the same is true of human beings. Modern scientists are inclinded to state that genes, or rather the X and Y chromosomes, are the...

If the British had not Colonised India History cannot be altered and its myriad paths would follow their own destined course. However, it would not be entirely futile to involve our imagination in visualizing the course of history if such and such an event had not taken place. One such occurrence is the British colonialism in India. The British colonised India gradually and established their rule over the country for more...

ISI – A Threat to India The intelligence community of Pakistan consists of ‘the Intelligence Bureau (IB) formed by the division of pre-partition IB of British India and ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) formed after the unsatisfactory performance of IB (Pakistan) in 1948 in the first Indo-Pak War (1947-48) over Jammu and Kashmir. The ISI is manned by officers from the three services to specialize in the collection, analysis and assessment of external...

Private Sector versus Public Sector The old debate on the public versus the private sector—which one of the two is better for the growth of Indian economy—has been long alive. It has assumed increased importance with India’s recent impressive performance in all fields—from IT to computer software, from telecommunications to health, from generation of energy to manufacturing of industrial goods. While the popular belief is that most of the public sector...

Non-violence Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the I N law of the brute–so spoke Mahatma Gandhi, celebrating the need and nature of the principle of non-violence for mankind. All wise men down the ages have preached the doctrine of love and non-violence. Zoroaster, Buddha, Mahavira, Christ, and Nanak primarily emphasised a moral code that gave due status to non-violence. Non-violence is a philosophy of life, a...