Cowards Die Many Times before Death It is well known mat death is the only certainly in this uncertain world. Everything else in this world is unreal, as everything is transitory, including man’s life. Death gets all, kings and paupers, the rich and the poor, the old and the young, the rulers and the ruled, the pious and the sinners, etc. And after death what? Nobody knows. With death ends all,...

Strike While the Iron is Hot Everyone in life wishes to succeed whatever project he or she undertakes. Success builds confidence, failure dejects a person. Success gets one appreciation but failure brands one as incompetent. There are some people who generally succeed while there are others who often fail in their endeavours. It is, of course, difficult to account for the success and failure in terms of scientific analysis. There are...

Character Makes a Man What is character and what place it has in the assessment of personality of a man has been a subject matter of discussion for centuries by psychologists, educationists, religious leaders and administrators. There have been no set conclusions as to the definition of character. The definition of character has been undergoing change or has been tilted by different thinkers according to their preoccupation of the mind. The...

If I were the Prime Minister of India Give me space to stand on, and I will move the earth.—Archimedes  If authority is given to people who are fired with the desire to serve the country, they can certainly change things for the better. As a young citizen, I have always dreamed of an India where there is no corruption, where even the poorest of the poor get two square meals...

India of My Dreams “Be proud that you are an Indian: I proudly claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother” — Swami Vivekananda The contemporary population of India cannot assert this. I following a stretched spell of the British rule, India attained independence in 1947. The Britishers left no stone unturned to demolish the culture of India. They anglicised our culture, distorted our history and divided our country...

Science and Religion When the theory of the Origin of Species was propounded by Charles Darwin, it led to a revolution in the lives of the Europeans who believed in the Church dogma that man was a special creation of God and had descended from Adam and Eve. Darvin’s discovery (based on extensive study of fossils and bones of a very old era) states that man evolved from a species of...

Art and Morality For a satisfactory discussion of the interrelationship of ac and morality, it is necessary to clarify the fundamentals clarify both. Art is man’s effort to represent life either in painting, poetry, music, sculpture or even in architecture. Painting poetry and music, which are the universal media of self-expression, are called “fine arts”. The human psyche has bee-affected by the morality for ages. There is revealed morality as enjoined...

India’s Contribution to World Wisdom Nearly 5000-6000 years ago, the Indian peninsula came alive, much before the birth of Jesus Christ. Our ancient scriptures, the Vedas, Puranas, Tripitakas, the Ashtadhyaya, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata have delved deeply into the causes of existence of man. They have also tried to delineate how a man should live, work create and finally leave this mortal world. The most intricate philosophies of life (and...