India’s Corrupt Leadership   Corruption is viewed as a synonym for politicians by our youth. First, corruption is India’s one of the major problems (after a burgeoning population). The only way to tackle corruption is to bring down the ruling government and change the political system in the country. Only true leaders should be elected.’ And somewhere along, there was an overriding sense of disillusion too. Perhaps the only problem where...

Sports in India The history of sports in India dates back to the Vedic era. The “guru-shishya” (teacher-pupil) relationship has always been an integral of Indian sport from time immemorial. Indian sport reached a peak of excellence when Buddhism held sway. It is more than likely that many of today’s Olympic disciplines are sophisticated versions of the games of strength and speed that flourished in ancient India and Greece. Chess, wrestling,...

If Netaji Came Back   Subhash Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist leader, who fought against the British in World War II. He was born in Cuttack, Bengal, and educated at the universities of Calcutta and Cambridge, he left a career in the Indian civil service in 1921 to fight for India’s independence and was imprisoned a dozen times by the British. He shared leadership of India’s youth and peasant societies...

If Sardar Patel Had Become India’s First Prime Minister   Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the leading figure of the Indian Nationalist Movement. He was born in Gujarat, son of an agriculturalist and was educated at Karansad and Nadiad before studying law in England and qualifying as a barrister at Middle Temple in 1912. Patel was made Home Minister in the Interim Government of 1946. After Indian independence in August 1947, he...

Religion Vs Astronomy   Religion and science have always been in direct competition with one another. Religion, broadly, way of life or belief based on a person’s ultimate relation to the universe or a god or gods. In this sense such diverse systems as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, and Shinto may be considered religions. In a more commonly accepted sense, however, the term religion refers to faith in a divinely created...

Television and Its Impact   September 11, 2001, the Black Tuesday, the World Trade Centre collapses to ground. Whole world watch this spectacle on their television sets, many of them children. As the children sit around with their parents they see planes crashing into buildings, innocent civilians jumping from windows, and later on, they see fire fighters and volunteers sifting through the rubble, pulling out bodies. The children try and understand...

Entertainment Industry   In the past five years, the entertainment industry has been more and more focused on the scheme of reality-based entertainment. This urge for live television has made a great force upon major network television stations. Shows such as MTV’s Real World and CBS’s Survivor are great indicators of society’s passion with drama in a “live” situation. It seems our obsession with these shows stems from our desire to...

Soccer: The Most Popular Sport   Soccer is the world’s most popular sport and is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and many other nations. A field game played by two teams with a ball of various types, usually an inflated bladder or rubber bag in a leather or rubber cover (an increasing number of balls are plastic), which is spherical or ellipsoidal in shape. The object of...