India Seeks Permanent Membership of UN Security Council Outlines: Continuing to insist on the expansion of the United Nations Security Council, India presented a case for its inclusion as a permanent member of the Security Council at the 49th UN General Assembly session, held from Sept. ’94 to Jan. ’95. India also asked the assembly to enhance the Council’s transparency. We are confident that India deserves to be a permanent member...

Fifty Years Of The United Nations   Outlines : Fifty long years have gone by since the UN was set up in 1945, when the embers of history’s most disastrous World War II were still smouldering. As small wars still rage at some places in the world, and as the bluehelmeted peacekeepers fan out to help quench the flames of war and prevent further bloodletting and destruction, it is worthwhile to...

World Population vs World Resources Outlines : The problems associated with the Third World affect the whole world. How we deal with these problems will largely determine our future, and that of our children and grandchildren. What was already, in 1950, a record human population, tripled during the course of a single human lifetime. This surge represents an extraordinary and unprecedented situation. The challenge presented to the productivity capacity of the...

World Population Explosion   Outlines : It is grossly irresponsible to talk of the Earth being able to support an ever-increasing population. If that happens, the world’s life support systems will collapse. The plain statistics of world population are staggering. It now stands, but not still, at around 5.3 billions (1 billion = 1,000 millions), and is increasing at the rate of over 200,000 babies every day. By 2,000, there will...

Search For A Peaceful Future  Outlines : Three world leaders, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, Mr. George Bush and Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, who were key participants from the days of the Cold War, held televised discussion, most of the time spent on referring to the advantages and limitations of the United Nations. As usual, Mrs. Thatcher was the most blunt. She spoke of how the ‘tyrant’ Mr. Saddam Hussein would still have been...

Curing Urban Congestion  Outlines : The best way to relieve urban congestion and cure cancerous growth is not to increase traffic capacity, but to draw traffic away from congested areas and develop counter magnets. Consider an organisation which has caused, and continues to cause, hundreds of gruesome deaths every day, has spawned every variety of crime and corruption, has polluted the atmosphere beyond endurance, has rendered millions homeless, condemned them to...

The key to Peace is Tolerance Anywhere, Everywhere  Outlines : According to Voltaire, ‘Tolerance is a law of nature stamped on the heart of all men”. Nothing could be truer than this statement; tolerance is, indeed, a permanent law of nature. But it is not something which has to be externally imposed, for the human desire for tolerance is limitless. Just as truth and honesty are virtues, so is tolerance a...

Today’s Politicians and The Poor The so-called split in the Congress, and the sub-sequent split within the split, have been discussed threadbare in the columns of newspapers. But the one question which one has not seen raised is, why public respinse to these developments has been languid. The only explanation could be that, in recent years so many splits have taken place in so many parties so frequently as to have...