What Ails Indian Sports and Games? One of the greatest degradations that has occurred in our country during the second half of the twentieth century, has been in the field of sports and games. The only performance of note has been the gold medal in hockey won at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and the triumph at the 1983 World Cup Cricket Championships in England. But these occasional triumphs do not...

Indian Culture in Daily Life   Culture has been defined by Mathew Arnold in Literature and Dogma as the desire and quest to “know the best that has been said and thought in the world”. It appears to be liberal and broad view of culture, but it is not comprehensive. Culture must be a total product of character and not merely an acquisition or an impulse from within. “A nation without...

My Vision of India in 2020   India is a developing country. It has made rapid progress in all the spheres after its independence, viz., agriculture, industrialization, urbanization, etc. To visualize what India would be in 2020 AD in all the spheres is not an easy task. Thinking of people, technologies and mechanism are changing so fast that it is difficult to predict the future aspect. India is making progress step...

 New Education Policy   Education is the most important national activity, the backbone of a country’s progress. It helps to strengthen the very fabric of nation “to produce men of education enlightenment and character”. The New Education Policy is likely to lead to 100 per cent literacy in the 15-35 age-groups in the wake of the century. The teachers and the taught as well as the various Government agencies are going...

Education for Good Citizenship   According to Diogenes, “The foundation of every State is the education of its youth”. Education is thus the most important constituent of good citizenship. It implies cultivation of the’ mind to make life tolerable and the acquisition of skill for making it possible. The strength of a nation lies more in the quality of its people than in its material resources. A nation of weaklings can...

Television and Education   Television is one of the most wonderful achievements of science. It represents an advanced technological marvel of the present age. Its vast potentialities as a powerful medium of mass communication cannot be under-estimated. It is, indeed, the last word in entertainment and enlightenment. It can enlighten our illiterate and ignorant masses—women in the rural areas in particular—and widen their mental horizon. It can help them overcome the...

Sports is an Indispensable Part of Education   True education should aim at developing an all-round personality of the student. Education should, therefore, result in the intellectual, moral and physical development of children. Education and sports are correlated. While education awakens the mind and kindles the light of knowledge, sports help to shape the physique. What reading is to the mind, exercise is to the body. Participation in sports refreshes the...

Travel as a Part of Education   From times immemorial travelling has been considered a part of one’s education. The Englishmen, in particular, consider their schooling incomplete without a tour of the continent. Travelling is one of the most delightful experiences of mankind. People have always enjoyed going from place to place seeing people and places. In India, unfortunately, foreign travel has not been much encouraged and in fact, there was...