Indian Music is as Diverse as Its Culture    Just as there is no such language as Indian, but instead many hundreds of languages, with over a dozen considered major, so there is no single entity as Indian music. The range of musical styles and traditions in the subcontinent of South Asia, which comprises modern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri – Lanka, is in proportion to the vastness of the...

Objectivity in Journalism    Objectivity is expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices or interpretations. Objectivity, as defined by the school of media ethics, means standing so far from the community that you see all events and all viewpoints as equally distant and important or unimportant for that matter. It is employed by giving equal weight to all viewpoints—or if not, giving all...

Ancient Literature of India   Veda is the most ancient sacred literature of Hinduism, or individual books belonging to that literature. This body of ancient literature consists primarily of four collections of hymns, detached poetical portions and ceremonial formulae. The collections are called the Rig-Veda the Sama-Veda, the Yajur-Veda, and the Atharva-Veda. They are known also as the Samhitas (roughly “collection”). The four Vedas were composed in Vedic, an early form...

India – A Tourist’s Paradise    “If we were to look over the whole world to fine out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow-in some parts a very paradise on earth-I should point to India”. Max Mueller What Max Mueller said is indeed true. Crowned by the Himalayas on top, and vast seas surrounding its peninsula, India is quite distinct on...

Towards Linguistic Disharmony  More than 1700 languages are spoken in India as mother tongue. Indian languages of today have sprouted, as it were, from various language families’ vis-à-vis ethnic peculiarities. They may be classified into six major groups: Negroid; Austric; Sino-Tibetan; Indo-Aryan; Dravidian; and, miscellaneous speeches. Their meaning, in whole or part, is self-explanatory. Rigmarole has always been a mirage, because, India has never had a common language, intelligible to every...

Global Music    The global viewpoint of music is that we live in an increasingly smaller “global village.” Music plays a role in all societies, and it exists in a large number of styles, each characteristic of a geographical region or a historical era. With advance in worldwide transportation and communication and with increasingly mobile societies, it seerzls not only suitable but also necessary to develop a global viewpoint of music....

The Role of Opposition in Democracy  Democracy is the government of people, by the people and for the people. It is the most common form of the government in this world. In democracy, the opposition has a great role to play. In a parliamentary system of government the party or the group of parties commanding majority forms the government and remains in power as long as it enjoys the confidence of...