World Environment Day is commemorated on 5 June every year. This day is an opportunity for us to raise environmental awareness and to encourage action to safeguard the environment.We are living in a time when wasteful consumption and bad habits are placing growing demands on the earth’s resources. Unless we take on the task of […]
Man is the only home making animal. He alone can enjoy the warmth of his hearth and family circle. Man has evolved from tree dwelling to the modern flat. Primitive man was the master of his hut and it was his castle. Till recently the house had been a complex affair. There were the gardens,
Child abuse—these two words have repeatedly appeared in newspapers time and again.This form of inexcusable violence does not occur among the poor and uneducated families only but also in families that have so-called high status in society. But more often than not, families that are socio-economically poor are the main abusers in this country.Although the
Untouchability is still being practised in rural India. People in metropolitan cities have hardly any idea about the behavior of the rural elites with the so called lower caste people. In most of the villages in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh scheduled caste people are not allowed to sit on cots in the presence
Much to his housekeeper’s disgust, the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes carried out scientific experiments in his Baker street rooms in the cause of solving crimes. Since his day, science had played an increasingly important part in both the detection and the proof of crime. Technology, the derivative of science, is used by most countries’
Civilizations do meet and even merge but never has such an impact been witnessed as the impact of the west on India. A bird’s-eye view of the Indian scenario would depict a miniature or a distorted West in India.The impact has been so great and so deep that, wherever we go, and, as far as
Education is not merely the bookish education and the acquiring of diplomas and degrees. It is also the training of man’s faculties to draw out the best from him and to make him a better person.Education must result in an all-round personality which means physically, mentally, intellectually, morally and spiritually he is developed. By normal
Tuition centres have become a booming industry, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars. On the average, parents fork out about $100 to $200 ( 4,000 to 8,000) for each child per month. Today, more and more teachers are giving tuition as it has become a major money-spinner for them. What has triggered this phenomenon?
Terrorism means the policy of striking terror in the minds of the people by violent methods to achieve some ends. It is a law of the jungle to use muscle power and force to get things done. It is a barbarian act. Of late, terrorism has become the order of the day.People who are disgruntled
Scientists have been taking widespread measurements of Earth’s surface temperature since around 1880. These data have steadily improved and, today, temperatures are recorded by thermometers at many thousands of locations, both on the land and over the oceans. Different research groups, including the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Britain’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change,
If two or more persons meet together and start talking about the present society of India, they soon come to the conclusion that every system, every institution of India is infested with corruption. Corruption has become so common in public life that people are now averse to thinking of public life without this phenomenon.Corruption means
Child marriage means that two children are forced to marry each other with the consent of the two families. The children are forced into the institution of marriage without knowing about its significance in the long run.Though parents are of the opinion that they involve their children in such rituals because it is an age
Statistically, air travel is reasonably safe when compared with road, rail and sea. Many countries have a high death and injury rate on the roads; train, ferry and ocean-going ship disasters are regular enough to be commonplace, taking a global view. Yet air disasters are usually fatal to all or most concerned and are therefore
India is a land of villages. About 70 per cent of our population lives in the villages. However, they present a very unusual image of village life. Hard work, simplicity and plain thinking is a charm of life there. Villages are the main supply line of cities but hey evoke an image of a mass
I study in a national type secondary school in Delhi. It is in Punjabi Bagh and is one of the progressive schools in the country. It is a co-educational school and prepares students for the ‘O’ level and ‘A’ level examinations. The school is lucky in having hard-working and intelligent members on the staff with