The Indian Republic India became a republic on January 26, 1950 and since then’ the Constitution of India has been the governing principle of this country. Or, at least, it is supposed to have been so. It is, of course, tempting to try and overview our achievements and failures in upholding the tenets of that document. It is equally tempting and easy to point at the failures—the poverty, the illiteracy, the...

Tourism: Potentials and Problems Tourism has emerged as one of the world’s largest industries. Growing rapidly in the last two decades, today it accounts for more than seven per cent of world output and employs some 150 million people around the globe. Since the end of Second World War, it has been a good source of revenue generation. having tremendous development potential and stands today as unique natural renewable resource industry....

Modern Civilization When we talk of modernity and civilization, a host of attributes come to our mind such as welfare states where the gifts of science have brought better living standards for the people, the fear of disease, poverty, housing, starvation and political injustice are greatly minimized and leisure is filled with a myriad forms of entertainment from music to cricket; where travel is quick and comfort and ignorance does not...

Growing Flexibility in Gender Roles of Men and Women Transition in social milieu has always been a universal factor which reverberates in the vicissitudes of the society. Changes in a particular field have an impact on other realms of society too. A brilliant example of such change is that of the growing flexibility in gender roles of men and women. Early society had rigid roles for men and women. Characteristics and...

Politics and Religion If politics is ‘the last refuge of scoundrels’, and religion the opium of the masses’, any nexus between the two is bound to spell doom. However, if we consider politics as involving the recognition and reconciliation of opposing interests within a given unit of rule, and religion as the root of most of the profound and permanent values of life we cannot quite dismiss the idea of the...

The Politics of Communalism India is a nation in the making with a society in transition which has various strands of social groups either in conflict, or in temporary alliance with each other. The conflict has sometimes been summarized as ‘Bharat’ versus ‘India’, where ‘Bharat’ represents the vast disadvantaged sections left behind bearing the brunt of social exploitation, and ‘India’ symbolizes the people who are on the path of progress, having...

Judicial Activism Essay No. 01 Judicial activism’ is the current term in use. In a way, it is an absurd term—if we have a judiciary, it is to be hoped that its members will be active; but the term ‘activism’, of course, implies Intervention’. Judicial activism involves innovative interpretations of the nuances of law. According to Justice J.S. Verma of the Supreme Court, “The role of judiciary in interpreting existing laws...

Politicians above the Law Every now and then, we hear someone declare proudly. if a bit self-righteously, that India is the biggest democracy. We love to point out that the framers of our Constitution look the best ideas and principles from constitutions of different countries so that our own document could be one of the best. Practically, all kinds of likely dangers to the nascent democratic republic were taken into account...