India and her Neighbours                   India is a peace loving country, making sincere endeavour to promote peace in the world. She has pursued a policy of good neighbourliness throughout her history. She has tried to accommodate with the small countries on her eastern and northern borders. Whether it is Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, or Nepal; New Delhi has left no stone unturned to remove the misunderstandings and dispel the...

Senior Citizens    The increase in the life span that has been possible due to upgradation brought about in medical science, has created a new problem. It is that now we have so many senior citizens everywhere and their number is increasing day by day. It is estimated that by 2010, we shall be having about 11 per cent of our population in the category of senior citizens. Any person who...

A Fair Weather Friend It is rightly said ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed.’ Yet, the world is full of fair-weather friends. When a person is in comfortable , circumstances, he is surrounded by fair-weather friends. They are mere parasites and must be compared with flies that hover round a sweet and palatable thing. When, unfortunately the person concerns falls in bad times, all such fair- weather friends disappear...

Five Important Persons of My City There are many important persons in my city. I’ll, however, describe five of them. The Deputy Commissioner is a big gun in every district level city. He is responsible for running the administration smoothly not only in the city but in the entire district. The Senior Superintendent of Police is the incharge of the police of the district. It is his duty to see that...

Five Important Persons of My Village The five big guns or important persons of my village are the Headmaster of the Government Primary School, the Sarpanch,” the Doctor of the Government Dispensary, the Moneylender and the Grocer. In the modern villages, there are more than five important persons in each village. But I’ll give a brief descri ption of five of them. The Headmaster of the Government Primary School is held...