A Drowning Tragedy Rivers in India are flooded during the monsoons. They overflow their banks. Last year, during monsoons, we went to the Jamuna River for a bath. We went on our bicycles. A few of us took with us inflated rubber tubes and swimming kits. We took off our clothes, jumped into the water and began enjoying the refreshing bath. We kept near the bank in shallow water. A little...

Wildlife Ever since man was born he has been disturbing the earth’s ecological balance by cutting down trees, killing animals and indulging in similar activities for food and shelter. With the increase in population man’s demands from nature have increased. The advent of modern technology enables him to gain control over nature, further disturbing the balance The resultant industrial pollution has threatened the existence of wild animals to such an extent...

A Day Spent Sick in Bed No man is free from sufferings. The sufferings are the salt of life in whatever form they may come. They make us realize the importance of life and something, easily available to us. As it is said, one cannot appreciate light, until he had experienced the darkness. So also one cannot appreciate the health until he had passed a day in bed in illness. Here...

Religious Education There can be no true religion without education. There can be no education without true religion. Education and religion go hand in hand for the peace, progress and prosperity of humanity. Where education becomes irreligious and religion becomes uneducated, all the troubles of society come into play. All the religions of the world are one and the same in the basic principles. Troubles arise when selfish priests and political...

A Day Without Electricity Of all the inventions during the last two centuries, the invention of electricity has been the most wonderful and useful. Everywhere we find ourselves amid the. various kinds of appliances based on electricity. But seldom do we realize, how much we depend on it for the comfort of our daily life. This is because electricity is easily available to us. We realize its importance only when for...

My Neighbour “Love thy neighbour as thyself,” said Jesus Christ. Yet how many people do really love their neighbours? Usually there prevails a great tension among the neighbours on some point of dispute or the other. Many people just tolerate neighbours because there is no other way to get rid of them. Here and there people change their houses, if they are tenants and cannot pull on with their neighbours. Some...

Floods and Famines Floods and Famines are natural calamities and a common feature of Indian life. Our food depends on the Rain God and monsoons are very tricky. Sometimes we get too much oi rain and sometimes we get no rain at all. When we get no rain, crops cannot grow in large parts of India i.e. Famine takes place and when we get rain in cats and dogs, our crops...

My Most Interesting Dream We all have dreams. Most of the nights we are dreaming. But these dreams are not clear to us. We soon forget them and remember nothing when the day breaks. Now and then we have a dream which is so clear that it becomes like a cinematographic picture on the screen of our imagination. We remember the dream forever and forever as if it was something that...