International Day of Peace  – September 21 The General Assembly, in resolution 55/282 of 7 September 2001, decided that, beginning in 2002, the International Day of peace should be observed on 21 September each year. The Assembly declared that the Day be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non- violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the day. It invited all Member...

The First College Experience I Had College seemed to be the scariest thing that I could think of. Whenever I thought about it my stomach would immediately begin to spin in circles. Although I was ready to go off and be by myself and meet new people I was scared to death at the same time. I didn’t know much about the ‘college experience’ and what I thought of, scared me....

Life we get what we pay for    Life’s a cafeteria here. We can get anything we want as long as you are willing to pay the price. We can even get success, but we’ll never get it if we wait for someone to bring it to us. We have to get Up and get it ourself. Success is defined differently by different people. Most people think of success as making...

Love Only Needs an Open Heart    Love is not love Which alters when it finds alteration Or bends with the remover to remove O! No! It is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken Sonnets: W. Shakespeare Mention the word “Love” and it immediately conjures up a whole gamut of emotions and electric impulses. Hearken your  ears to the passionate utterances. Heads bow gently, the  pride,...

Destiny  Destiny is something to which a person or thing is destined i.e. the course of events in our life is predetermined to reach a preordained destination. Destiny implies that there is some Power which decrees or determines the course of events beforehand. In this view there is no chance or choice left. Let us be clear, any other meaning of destiny would not be permitted by standard dictionaries. However people...

Value of Friends  Man is a social animal. This phrase sounds too cliched. But try to look a little deeper and you’ll find a world of interesting aspects. This is because, it is one thing to live. The day you entered this world, you started to live, and live you will, till the day you breathe. It is yet another thing to lead a life, it involves interaction with other individuals,...

Happiness  We all have come across through this phrase : Smile! It improve your face value. The sentence set me thinking of the immense value of stretching our cheeks with such difficulty sideways a bit, a rail catch in this present-day hectic, tension-ridden, hurried and harriedlife. We have no time to smile at others but nevertheless find time to laugh at others. Its the biggest close-up smile (laugh). They say that...

Love is The Basis of Religion India is a secular country certainly! But sometime people get carried away in the religious sentiments and became enemy of their fellow citizens. More than 50,000 religious riots-that had happened since independence—are testimony to that. We are religiously conscious in a very negative way, we defend our religion by attacking other’s religion. We protect our religion by killing fellow human beings. There was a Christian...