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Dignity of Labour Essay No. 01 “In the sweat of thy face thou shalt earn thy bread” was the Divine Judgment on the Fallen Man. Ever since man has been labouring hard to keep himself alive. He digs, drives and drags, tills the soil, works at the mill and does a lot of other things to keep his body and soul together. He may find his work hard and unpleasant, but...
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December 27, 2018 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Citizenship Man does not live in isolation. He is a social creature and lives together with other men. Civic life is thus a co-operative enterprise. It is based on human interdependence. Men think of themselves as standing in various relations to one another; performing various services to one another, and realizing themselves in association with one another. The world today is largely interdependent in all spheres of life. Education, health...
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December 27, 2018 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Strikes Essay No. 01 When workers as a body stop their work to compel their employers to concede to their demands, we say they have gone on strike. Strikes are a peculiar feature of modern industrial life. They have assumed different forms and shapes such as tool-down strike, lie-down strike, pen-down strike and slow-down strike. In fact, they are but a symptom of some deep-routed malady in our economic life. Modern...
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December 27, 2018 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Prohibition Prohibition means banning the manufacture, distribution, sale and consumption of intoxicating drinks. In our country, majority of people, who consume intoxicating drinks, belong to the poor and working sections of the community. Therefore, prohibition to wean the poor from the curse of alcoholism has been given thoughtful consideration. Drinking is a great social evil. Wine has been called ‘liquid fire’. Just as fire burns everything to ashes, in the same...
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December 27, 2018 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Indian Folk Songs The real culture of a people lies embedded in their customs, folk dances, folk lores, traditional beliefs, and the folk songs. No country of the world is an exception to it. We can easily compile a cultural history of a people of specified class after we study their customs, traditions, folklore, dances and songs. Invariably all the communities have this great wealth of their intangible culture, which does...
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December 27, 2018 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Censorship of Indian Films More than other media, films have greater accessibility to country’s masses. They have the potential of becoming a vital instrument for developing our culture and inculcating in the viewers’ taste for art. They can, in short, be a means of education, instruction and enlightenment. Every right-thinking person will readily agree that in their anxiety to produce box-office hits and to make haystacks of gold and silver, while...
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An Apology for Idlers According to R.L. Stevenson, idleness “does not consist in doing nothing but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class”. This is really true of an idler. Idleness does not imply wasting time in the pursuit of useless and frivolous things. It means enjoying life and making the best use of faculties. Idleness is a pleasure; it means taking delight...
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Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Power acts as an intoxicant and a person who drinks deep into the power loses hold over his commonsense. He becomes intoxicated and heeds no counsel, however wise it might be. It blinds him towards the realities and hence he fails to give out justice. He becomes unscrupulous in his ways and behaviour and any word of wisdom from the elders appears an affront...
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