Media Coverage Should Be Ethical and Responsible Media covers radio, television, communication, journalism, newspapers and periodicals. Television is system of mass communication, involving the transmission of images and sounds to distant screens, by electronic means over electrical or fibre-optic transmission lines or by electromagnetic radiation (radio waves). TV is a vastly important medium. Newspapers are publications usually issued on a daily or weekly basis, the main function of which is to...

Tattoo or Body Piercing Your 18th birthday is one of the most important birthdays. You have finally attained legal age to get a tattoo or a body piercing. The difficult question you now face is which one do you choose? Tattooing is a method of decorating the skin by inserting coloured substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, often an electric needle. In many parts of...

Our Country’s Only Feasible Solution—Plutonium Should we begin to manufacture one of the most destructive and infamous substances on the Earth once again? The engineers say yes, but the public says no. But with the continuing problem with our ever-diminishing energy sources, some want us to begin using more nuclear energy and less energy from natural resources. It is a radioactive metallic element that is used in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons....

The Glorious Indian Cinema   Life in India would not be the same without the exuberance of cinema. Song and dance, melodrama, relevant messages—Indian films have them all and usually all together in one film! Lumiere brothers’ cinematography arrived in India on July 7 1896, to a truly dramatic setting. Natural and political factors had unsettled the country—floods, & famine: at Sholapur, a famine—afflicted 5000—strong crowd stole bags of grain, resulting...

Hollywood vs. Bollywood   Hollywood may be the ‘big brother’ in the ‘Bollywood vs. Hollywood’ stakes but for many of its stars today, all roads seem to lead towards Bollywood. Even as many filmmakers in Bollywood still look for inspiration from the western counterpart for story ideas, the ‘song-and-dance’ fare from the world’s largest film industry seems to have, of late, caught the fancy of a number of Hollywood actors and...

Metro Railways: A Boon to Delhi   Delhi became the seat of Government of India in 1911 when the Imperial Government shifted its capital from Calcutta to Delhi. Initially the capital was located on the Ridge, north of the walled city of Delhi. As this site was not found suitable to serve as the seat of the Government, a new city, namely, New Delhi, located to the south of the walled...

Illiteracy is the Consequence of Our Policies   An informed citizenry, active citizenship and collective assertion are critical civil society functions in a mature democracy. However the very low levels of literacy prevalent even today despite decades of rhetoric have made ordinary citizen very tiny and weak in the face of the might of the state. Many people secretly believe that universal adult franchise in a largely illiterate society is not...

Sex Education is the Need of New Generation   The largest gulf of understanding still remains between the parents and the youth especially in the area of sexuality. Sex is a natural part of life, and when questions arise, they can be discussed in a matured way without condoning certain behaviour. Relying to that, we realize that sex education is important to be inserted in a person’s life. Therefore, sex education...