Modernity and Tradition               Synopsis: Change is the law of nature but it cannot be separated from continuity as both merge and meet at some point.  The need to harmonies modernity with tradition can hardly be over-emphasized. Indian culture has many valuable and healthy traditions which has merged well with modernity. At the same time many aspect of Indian way of living have been degrading and dead.  Hinduism has been...

Check Erosion Or Lose Ground               Synopsis: Conservation of the land is essential for survival and continued availability of food-grains.  Soil-erosion is a worldwide phenomenon but it is worst in the developing countries. Water and wind are the major sources of soil-erosion which wash or blow away the top soil, the valuable substance which helps plants and vegetation to grow.  In India about 175 Mha land is already degrades because...

Food Grain Production in India   Synopsis: Freedom from hunger and malnutrition presupposes availability of food-grains at reasonable rates all over the country. The present availability of food gain in the country is 38 gms per person per day, which is very low.  India is an agricultural country and the monsoon plays a very vital role here. We had nine successive good monsoons and this year 1997 too it has been...

Realism key to development   Present world situation calls upon philosophers to combat blind dogmatism and irrational creeds and reconstruct man’s institutions on more rational basis. The history of humanity has been a continuous struggle between rational and irrational forces, between knowledge and enlightenment on the on hand and stupidly, prejudice, superstition and factionalism on the other. The social intellectuals of the prehistoric age like Plato have also advocated government by...

Life a bane or a boom   Life means different things to different people, and so generalizations about life are almost always misleading for the simple reason, and every man’s response to its call is determined bu his own experience and temperament. A man who has suffered few mishaps in life, whose upbringing has been in healthy surroundings, who is fortunate in love and friendship, who has identified himself with some...

Computer Technology a harbinger o new life   Computer is the latest addition to the achievement of science. Computer bases technology has heralded a new life of information Technology besides its role in agriculture, biotechnology, oceanography, engineering and medicine. A computer is capable of storing and processing enormous amount of information at a lightning speed. The information is transmitted, shared and disseminated to other users via computers through a network.        ...

Advertising an expensive means to sell   Advertisement is an effective and skillful way of selling various consumer goods specially luxuries and convenience. Advertisements dominate the television and radio programmers’, newspapers and magazines. It has become a major industry involving services of personals including top-most artists, industry involving services of personals including top-most artists, actors, musicians and model. Huge sums of money are spent for promotion of goods and services. There...

Farm mechanization   Indian agriculture has been going through a series of crises such as rising number of suicides among farmer, mounting rural indebtedness and swelling rural to urban migration, for over decade now.  The long-term viability of agriculture and the survival of the farming community itself are at stake, with the World Trade organization (WTO) and structural adjustment programme finally beginning to spread.  All these coincide with the time when...