Curing Urban Congestion  Outlines : The best way to relieve urban congestion and cure cancerous growth is not to increase traffic capacity, but to draw traffic away from congested areas and develop counter magnets. Consider an organisation which has caused, and continues to cause, hundreds of gruesome deaths every day, has spawned every variety of crime and corruption, has polluted the atmosphere beyond endurance, has rendered millions homeless, condemned them to...

The key to Peace is Tolerance Anywhere, Everywhere  Outlines : According to Voltaire, ‘Tolerance is a law of nature stamped on the heart of all men”. Nothing could be truer than this statement; tolerance is, indeed, a permanent law of nature. But it is not something which has to be externally imposed, for the human desire for tolerance is limitless. Just as truth and honesty are virtues, so is tolerance a...

Today’s Politicians and The Poor The so-called split in the Congress, and the sub-sequent split within the split, have been discussed threadbare in the columns of newspapers. But the one question which one has not seen raised is, why public respinse to these developments has been languid. The only explanation could be that, in recent years so many splits have taken place in so many parties so frequently as to have...

New Political Concepts Round The World vis-a-vis Ethnic Groups Outlines : India’s experience over the past 50 years in nation-building, and over the past four decades in economic reforms, offers possible solutions of two most important problems that the West is struggling to come to terms with. These are stated to a congruent to modern political philosophy. Immense advances in information technology, in the firepower of small arms, in mobility and...

Discipline in Public Life   Discipline for democracy, development and decency in public life needs no reiteration, nor does it require any expert to espouse its cause for personal poise and social solidarity. The law and order in public life is the crying need of the hour more than ever before. Discipline stands for training, especially of the mind and character, aimed at producing self-control, obedience in the face of temptation...

Liberty is Meaningless without Bread   The struggle between subjects and authority is a most conspicuous phenomena of world history. In olden times this con-test was between some classes of subjects and the government. By liberty was meant protection against the tyranny of the political rulers. The rulers were conceived, except in some cases, antagonistic to the people whom they ruled. They consisted of a governing individual who did not hold...

Politics and Ethics Democracy is not just confined to the political domain, but it pervades all spheres of society. Ours is age of democracy. Democracy as a form of government, characterised by elections and the installation of a “representative’ government, is becoming a global phenomenon. The fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, and domestic and global changes in Latin America, Africa, and West Asia (the Middle East), have brought...

School and Society No one can deny that some basic minimal code of rules are in man’s best interest. Discipline is a scheme which is designed to facilitate the smooth working of some activity, whether it is the acquisition of knowledge by students or any other field like that of craftsman, soldier or artist. To reach the best possible end in each of these, energy has to be harboured and canalized,...