Capital Punishment in India   POINTS TO DEVELOP Putting ’crime’ and ’punishment’ in context. Capital punishment and retributive punishment Changes in forms of capital punishment. Reaction against capital punishment. Reasons in support of and against capital punishment. Ultimate control of crime depends upon Effective enforcement, fair investigation and firm investigation on death sentence.   Crime and punishment are perhaps as old as the human species itself. When one person snatched food or...

Biodiversity POINTS TO DEVELOP What biodiversity means and how variations have evolved over the ages. Role of biodiversity. Pressures on biodiversity leading to accelerated loss of species. Impact of biodiversity loss. How biodiversity is lost-actions of individuals, communities and nations. Realization of the significance of biodiversity is growing and steps are being taken to maintain the balance. Problems specific’ to India. Conclusion. Biodiversity or biological diversity implies infinite variations in the...

Human Being and Natural Disaster POINTS TO DEVELOP Human beings have always been victims of natural disasters. Fear of disasters has not made humans more Cautious or careful in conserving environment. To an extent, science has helped humans in facing up to natural disasters-prediction is possible in some cases, so timely evacuation saves human lives. Human beings are, however, still vulnerable. Natural disasters bring out the best and the Worst in...

Animals too have rights   POINTS TO DEVELOP Importance of animal rights, Humans have overridden everything to satisfy their own needs. Evolution of humans’ relationship with animals. Importance of animals in the ecological Context Humans callously snatch away the rights of animals though ‘human rights’ are considered all important. Refusal to recognize animal rights can be disastrous  To some people, the suggestion of rights for animals might sound too petty to be...

Science and Religion Essay No. 01 POINTS TO DEVELOP Apparent gap between science and religion. Examining the connections between science and religion; earliest religions closely knit with observation of natural phenomena. Wrong to view science as only materialism and religion as only spiritualism. Science’s influence on society-good and bad. Religion has come to mean ritual and blind belief Scientific attitude and religious faith need to go hand in hand if humankind...

Science and Literature Essay No. 01 POINTS TO DEVELOP Confrontation between science and literature a relatively recent phenomenon. Differences between scientific creativity and literary creativity: scientific creativity is objective, whereas literary creativity is subjective; the value of a scientific product is absolute, that of a literary product is relative. Is science a product of reason only and literature that of imagination? Science and literature do not work at cross –purposes: impact...

Are Science and Art antithetical to each other? POINTS TO DEVELOP ‘Facts’ are common to both science and art, but the ‘reality’ of the latter different from that of the former. Difference in the matter of ‘accuracy’. Difference in approach or ‘method’. Scientific discoveries have spurred art into new perspectives. Technology’s use in techniques of art. Has scientific Endeavour ‘killed’ the joy of art? Science is not cold reason, and life...

Moral dilemmas inherent in Scientific Progress POINTS TO DEVELOP Scientific advances have been made at a fast rate. Scientific advances in some areas come into conflict with morality and ethics. Cloing and ethics. Other areas where scientific research clashes with moral values. Scientific and technological progress is not to be equated with progress on the whole. Scientific progress a double-edged sword for human-kind. Over  the centuries, humankind has made tremendous progress...