The New Political Culture in India India is perhaps the only nation that attained freedom after World War II and has not fallen a prey so far to military rule or dictatorship. This is so because our founding fathers were imbued with a spirit of liberal western traditions and incorporated the best of such traditions and conventions in the Constitution. The grant of universal suffrage to the millions of our countrymen...

Discipline is The Hallmark of Progress Discipline, a word so loosely bandied around today, implies a particular kind of training in self-control, orderliness obedience, punctuality and cooperation. It leads us to do better in life and is, indeed, the hallmark of progress. The importance of discipline in all spheres of life especially in collective work is undisputed. One -cannot progress without discipline whether it is an individual, a society or a...

Has Indian Democracy Come Of Age?   India today is the world’s largest functioning democracy. Eleven general elections have been held since we proclaimed ourselves a Sovereign, Democratic Republic on Jan. 26, 1950 and gave to ourselves a new Constitution. Whatever the aberrations and shortcomings in our system, we can proudly say today that democracy in India has come of age. For this we have only to took around us, in...

Would Small States Make For A Happier India? “From the human point of view”, writes Vincent Smith, “India has been often described as an ethnological museum in which numberless races of mankind may be studied. It is a multi-lingual multi-racial and multi-religious country comprising at present 25 states and 7 Union Territories. Although to quote the State Reorganization Commission Report 1955, “the Indian Union is Indestructible—the individual States are not”. Boundaries...

Family Life in The 21st Century  If the 20th century is the jet age, the next century will be the light age. Life will move at a whirlwind pace. Man will fight a grim battle for survival with the multiplying population, jobs becoming scarcer still, the competition becoming stiffer and existence something of a maddening race with people treading upon one another to get to the winning post. Mechanisation will be...

Good Luck is the Child of Diligence Diligence and skill are rightly regarded as the main motivating forces of all that we call progress in individuals as well as in nations. In every walk of life, happiness is a fruit, of which labour is the seed. We cannot enjoy the taste of any fruit without sowing its seeds and nursing the plant. Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness but...

Equal Status for Women Eighth of March is celebrated every year as the International Women’s Day. It shows that the woman of today has come of age, so to say, and wants to lead a dignified life of equality with man. The slogan being raised today by the women of the world is : Equality, Dignity and Self-Respect is What We Want. This slogan is indicative of the new awareness among...

Qualities of A Good Citizen Man is a social animal. By nature he dreads solitude and craves for society. In the society which he lives in, he expects others to be good to him. It is possible only if he himself becomes a good member of the society. Societies have grown into nations and men have become citizens of one or the other country. Hence, the need for defining the qualities...