City Life Living in a city is a challenging or deal that reminds one of the age-old dictum, “God made the country and man made the town”. It demands enormous grit and perseverance. A city-dweller spends his life amidst mounting pressures in the cut-throat competition that is a hallmark of urban existence. This lead to loss of mental peace, marital discord and professional jealousies and misunderstanding with the result that many...

The Art of Flattery Flattery is not a pleasing term, yet we know how essential it is for success in life. The student, who flatters the teacher, is sure to receive more attention in the class and obtain a better position in the examination. The worker in the factory is certain of receiving promotion if he has pleased his boss and the public figure is bound i to obtain a place...

Importance of Sports and Games   The ideal of good and perfect life is to have a mind in a sound body. This is recognized by all, as the best means of performing our duties. Body and mind should work at their best and they cannot do so unless both are in good order. The limbs must be supple, active and obedient to the will. It is only when they are...

Relevance of the Policy of Non-Alignment in the Changed World Situation Non-Alignment was a post-World War II phenomenon. In the bipolar world that emerged during the cold war era, most Asian and African countries attained Independence. Sandwiched as they were between the two superpowers, these nations wanted a voice of their own in International relations. Non-Alignment as conceived by Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdal Nasser and Marshal Tito, sought to give them...

The New Political Culture in India India is perhaps the only nation that attained freedom after World War II and has not fallen a prey so far to military rule or dictatorship. This is so because our founding fathers were imbued with a spirit of liberal western traditions and incorporated the best of such traditions and conventions in the Constitution. The grant of universal suffrage to the millions of our countrymen...

Discipline is The Hallmark of Progress Discipline, a word so loosely bandied around today, implies a particular kind of training in self-control, orderliness obedience, punctuality and cooperation. It leads us to do better in life and is, indeed, the hallmark of progress. The importance of discipline in all spheres of life especially in collective work is undisputed. One -cannot progress without discipline whether it is an individual, a society or a...

Has Indian Democracy Come Of Age?   India today is the world’s largest functioning democracy. Eleven general elections have been held since we proclaimed ourselves a Sovereign, Democratic Republic on Jan. 26, 1950 and gave to ourselves a new Constitution. Whatever the aberrations and shortcomings in our system, we can proudly say today that democracy in India has come of age. For this we have only to took around us, in...

Would Small States Make For A Happier India? “From the human point of view”, writes Vincent Smith, “India has been often described as an ethnological museum in which numberless races of mankind may be studied. It is a multi-lingual multi-racial and multi-religious country comprising at present 25 states and 7 Union Territories. Although to quote the State Reorganization Commission Report 1955, “the Indian Union is Indestructible—the individual States are not”. Boundaries...