Population Stabilization India possesses 2.4 percent of the total land area of the world but it has to support about 16 percent of the total world population with fast expanding population, education acquires a vastly different role. Leaders have talked about the hazards of population explosion. But there has never been any real attempt at changing the nature of education in India to cope with the threatening danger that we are...

Our National Flag Essay No. 01 “It will be necessary for us Indians— Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home-to recognize a common flag to live and die for.” –  Mahatma Gandhi’s quote on our Indian Flag. The Constituent Assembly which drew up the Constitution of India, adopted, on 22 July 1947, the tricolour as Independent India’s National Flag. After a debate, the...

 India Shining “India has emerged from a long period of economic hibernation. The county’s economic scene appears excellent in all spheres. This year can be taken as the most flourishing years that India has ever had after India attained freedom.” India’s GDP growth in the eighties averages 5% per annum. The growth rate during nineties averaged at 6%, despite some adverse developments. All the prospects of economy have seen a tremendous...

India-A Tourist’s Paradise “There are some parts of the world that once visited get into your heart and won’t let go. For me India is such a place when I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the sense with the pure, concentrate intensity of its colours, smells, tastes and sounds. It was as if...

Illiteracy – A Bane “India has the highest number of illiterates in the world, a mind-boggling 290 million adult illiterates- A matter of utter shame. Mahatma Gandhi visualized education a basic tools for the development of consciousness and reconstruction of society. Great reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar thought that emancipation of Indians was only possible through education.” After 51 years of independence, we are still too...

Cricket Created Fraternity “Game is a game ; one must play it is the spirit of game. -Anonymous After partition, it was the first time when thousands of Indian poured into Pakistan by road, rail and by air to watch the India-Pak ODI and test series. Kudos to the people of Pakistan who greeted every Indian with such affability and geniality that had no parallel since partition. Even the long history...

Can The Corruption Be Eradicated From Our Society? “With materialistic values at the topmost priority, moral and ethical values at the lowest span of ladder, every fibre of society indulged in self-aggrandizement, where in not only the credibility of politicians and bureaucrats but also of the judiciary is at stake, it is very difficult and ridiculous to dream of a corruption free society.” It is ironical that the country which has...

If Winter Comes can Spring Be Far Behind “If winter comes can spring be far behind” — these lines have been taken from the poem of famous Poet Shelley. By winter it means sorrows and sufferings and by spring it means pleasures and joys. It says that as spring follows winter, so pleasure follows sorrow. So nobody is condemned to sorrows forever as nothing is permanent. Sometimes even sorrow make a...