The Challenging & Burning Problems of India   The New millennium may signify many things, but what it should signify to Indians is that there is very little life to read the writing which is clearly visible on the wall, so pause to introspect or otherwise the future as you want it to be can never be yours. Though India is the largest democracy. We can derive satisfaction about the fact...

Role of Railway as Public Servant   The first passenger train in India ran between Boree Bunder (now called Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal) earlier known as the Victoria Terminal for several decades and Thana for a distance of 34 kilometers. It was indeed an uphill task laying the tracks those days, what with the tough terrain and many workers succumbing to malaria and other diseases. But the British regime was fully geared...

Higher Education in India Essay No. 01 We have seen best and the worst of higher education in India. The long march of educated unemployed knocking at doors that do not open. The frustrated youth who find everything uninspiring—the curricula, the campus, the teaching fraternity, the country’s leadership, and later the job that has nothing to do with what they have learnt. They are in that job just because they do...

My Vision of India in future  India is a land of amazing extremes. Here we find beautiful mountain ranges lowering above the populated valleys and forested plains in which the tiger, the trundling rhinoceros and beautiful birds live. Enchantment is everywhere be at on the shoulder of high mountain or on the terraced farm-lands meticulously carved like stairways out of the hill ridges, cascading rivulets and rushing rivers or in the...

Use of Information Technology in Our Daily Life Information Technology has come a long way in a short period of time. Along the way it has pushed Asia into the limelight time and again. Information Technology or IT used to be synonymous with computers. Now-a-days with devices big and small incorporating some sort of computer in them, IT has come to mean a lot more. In South East Asian Region, the...

Death Penalty: Right or Wrong The Indian penal code provides for capital punishment for criminal conspiracy, waging or attempting to wage war against the Government of India, abetment of mutiny giving or fabricating false capital evidence in officers leading to the conviction, abetment of suicide committed by a child or insane or delirious person or a person who is intoxicated and murder in decoity. In India, death penalty is discretionary rather...

The Doctor   ‘That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake’. —Mahatma Gandhi. The human life on the earth is full of pleasures and sorrows, ups and downs, strength and weakness and health and illness. Like day and night these happenings are inherent in everyone’s life cycle. But it is a silver lining that there are noble people who work all their lives to mitigate the sufferings...

Early to Bed and Early to Rise Early to bed and early to rise is a good habit. Early to rise has many advantages. In early morning our mind is fresh and the environment is clean. There are less distractions and noise. So one concentrates on studies and does more work. A good amount of work can be completed before others even get out of the bed. One becomes a gainer,...