Medical Insurance Health is the basic right of every human being. Everything must be done to ensure that everyone, irrespective of their social standing or economic status, can avail of it. With India’s burgeoning population it is becoming increasingly difficult for the government to provide public health care. More than 75% of the population avails medical care from the private sector. However, with the increasing costs of medical care it has...

Public Transport in India Trains and buses are the main modes of public transport in India. India’s rail network is the longest in the world. All rail operations in India are run by the state-owned company called Indian Railways. For over a century and a half, the Indian Railways has worked hard to make inroads into remote areas in an effort to provide communication. Indian Railways is one of India’s most...

Genetic Engineering Advantages and Disadvantages Genetic engineering is the modification or manipulation of the blueprints called genes, which give us our uniqueness, to change the characteristic of an organism. We see it all around us. We find it mixed in our food sitting on the shelves of the supermarket- genetically engineered food. It has been unceremoniously dumped on us. Ever since agriculture and the domestication of animals and plants began, man...

Electricity The latter part of the nineteenth century saw electricity transform itself from a scientific curiosity into a basic necessity. It was only much later that electricity came to be the driving force that it is today. Most of us who live in cities can’t even imagine life without electricity. The universe, as we know it, would fail to exist if there was no electricity. Almost everything that we use today;...

Nuclear Ban The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by America and the subsequent colossal damage left an indelible mark on the world. In 1970 the “Non-Proliferation Treaty” was signed by many nations of the world with an aim to put an end to the production of nuclear weapons. This pledge was further reiterated in 2000 by 187 nations at the review conference. However, America did a shocking turnabout when the...

Science : A Scare to Superstition Science is the art of understanding nature. It is not dogmatic like religion and any hypothesis is always open to scrutiny. Science harbours no room for emotions and sentiments. Science is based on hardcore facts, observations, verification and validation. When science comes along it shatters people’s illusions and self-created fantasy worlds. Leaving the comfort and security of their dreams is the toughest thing to do....

Nanotechnology Nanotechnology, in its traditional sense, means building things from the bottom up with atomic precision using techniques and tools being developed today to make complete high performance products. Nano-scale activities take place around us every day in the natural world – photosynthesis and the creation of energy in the human body to name just two. It is a highly multidisciplinary field drawing from other fields of science as well. The...

The Autobiography of A Rupee Note Essay No. 01 I was born a five hundred rupee note at the Currency Note Press at Nashik on March 15, 1970. I wasn’t always like you see me now: all laminated and all. Lamination has kind of immortalized me for a bit, but the thing with immortality is that it comes with a price. The price is my loss of freedom. Sure, many people...