Archives August 2012

"In Indian mythology Forests are not known simply a source of wood or other things but it is worshiped and regarded as 'God of forest'(VAN DEVTA)." Forests that cover nearly one-third of the world's land, are the very important and invaluable gift of nature to the mankind. Since times immemorial forests are regarded as the universal and unending source of many kinds of raw material by the men. From eatables to cooking wood, from clothing to housing facilities, everywhere we are being directly or indirectly benefitted by the forests. About 17 percent of India's land area, approximately 50 million hectares, -were regarded as forest land in the early 1990s. In FY 1987, however, actual forest cover was 64 million hectares. However, because more than 50 percent of this land was barren or brush land, the area more...

"India is the largest child labour force market in the world. The problem in of child labour in India is of colossal proportions. The notion that children are being exploited and forced into labour, while not receiving education crucial to development, concerns many people. India is the largest example plagued by the problem of child labour". Current figures of the number of children engaged in child labour in India are not available. This difficulty is attributed to the fact that the Indian Government" has been negligent in its refusal to collect and analyze current and relevant data regarding the brutal incidence of child labour. As of 1996, official figures continue to be based on 1981 census figures". The 1981 Indian census reports that there were 13.6 million child laborers in India. Indian government extrapolations of 1981 data place more...

The NDA leaders were making tall claims of India shinning and about achieving higher rates of economic growth. According to them, we would soon achieve file rank of developed countries. All    I these claims seem to have no tangent hut based on figures of quarterly growth rates and that too in the year of rebound of agricultural growth after the serious setback suffered by it due to severe drought in the preceding year. Food grains production in the year 2001-2002 was 212 million tones which had declined to only 182.6 million tones i.e. by 13.9 percent in the droughtyearof'2002- 2003. This year, the food grain production is expected to be about the same as in 2001-2002.   Because of this trend the overall economy would record an annual growth of more than 8 percent. However, if we take more...

if NAM came into being with the farsighted vision of Jawaharlal Nehru, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and Colonel Abdel Nasser of Egypt in the fifties today presents the miserable spectacle of an aged ethereal struggling to find a way out of the complex political forest. With the end of the Cold War the pious concept of non- alignment seems to have become totally irrelevant and redundant, but by no means eliminated the causes that warranted concerted action by the ever enlarging non-aligned club to fight common problems engulfed their economies . Peace, disarmament and development are still the vital issues that should be tackled with the same sense of urgency as the issues lowing from globalization that leave crucially benefit the already affluent North and create new problems in the economies of the South. But strangely enough, many of the NAM members, preoccupied willi the bitterness more...

"Jobs in India are shrinking at an alarming rate. Privatization and globalization have further aggravated the problem. Instead of generating employment, they have rendered millions of/lands idle. American policies are effective there but not in India where the accursed ones are left to fend for themselves leading to frustration, disappointment, anger and violence ". Unemployment is the mother of countless ills. It is such a poison that pollutes the society, endangers the democratic fabric of the country. We can't expect nobility, honesty and truth from a person who is unable to manage two square meals a day for his family. An unemployed person has no sense of self-respect as he has no sense of security. "Rightly", said by Franklin, "A ploughman on his feet is better than a gentleman on his knees." Estimates of the total number of Indians unemployed or underemployed vary between 70 and 100 million. This figure more...

"Gopal Krishan Gokhale, noted freedom fighter, was one of the first to emphasize the need for mass education. "He devoted a lot of his spare time for the causes of the common man: famine, plague ^p relief measures y local self-government, land reform, and communal harmony.    Gopal Krishna Gokhale was born on May 9, 1866 at Katulk in Ratnagiri Maharashtra, on May 9,1866, Gopal Krishna Gokhale was raised in the home of maternal grandfather. This village was not too far from Tamhanmala, the native lab of his father, Krishna Rao, a fanner by occupation who was forced to work as due to the poor soil of the region. His mother, Vauban, also known as Satyabhan was a simple woman who instilled in her children the values of religion, devotion to one's family and caring for one's fellow men. The economic condition of the fame was so bad that on more...

"The English language in an advanced and flexible one audits leaching should not be discarded altogether. Indian cannot afford to ignore this language ".                  —Dr. Rajendra Prasad India inherited' English from the British who ruled our country for more than two centuries. After independence, there have been a great deal of argumentation in respect to the position of English in free India. The Orthodox view advocated the complete stoppage of use of English in any form. According to them English language is an embodiment of western culture and thus the learning or studying English can endanger our own culture and values. "In my considered opinion English education ill the manner it has given to us, has emasculated the English educated Indians, constrained our intellect and rendered us effeminate'"                               —Mahatma Gandhi It is a bitter fact, that English has created a wide gulf between the few English educated and many uneducated. more...

"The real winner a/Election 2004 was the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). Apart from ensuring a smooth counting process the little boxes provided political parties with accurate information about voting patterns in different segments in the constituency. In the days of manual voting when the ballots of an entire constituency were mixed in a huge carton before it were counted, there was no accurate method of telling how a particular area had voted. Now the EVM with its booth wise voting figures provides this information on a platter. What's more, the ballot breakup makes it possible to pin the blame on workers in areas where the party per formed poorly and did not get the expected votes ". General Elections 2004 has made a history by making ballot boxes a thing( the past. Nearly, 10,75,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have 'digitized poll outcome not only in all the Parliamentary constituencies for more...

"A giant among men, one of those who laid the foundation of modern Indian nationalism and year by year built up brick by brick and stone by stone, the  noble edifice of Indian freedom. "In these words, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, summed up the feelings of the nation at the death of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya in 1946. A great Scholar, educationist, man of action, a leader of the national liberation movement, Madan Mohan Malviya rose to prominence in his life at an early age. Madan Mohan Malviya was bom in Allahabad on December 25, 1861. His ancestors were poor but enjoyed a good status and were known for their Sanskrit scholarship. Madan Mohan's education began at the age of five. He was sent to Pandit Hardeva's Dharma Gyanopadesh Pathshala. Mohan who was a diligent boy, matriculated in 1879 and joined the Muir Central College and graduated from the Calcutta University more...

"There are some parts of the world that once visited get into your heart and won 'I let go. For me India is such a place when I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land by ifs lush beauty and exotic architecture by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colours, smells, tastes and sounds. It was as if all my life I was seeing the world in black and while and when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything rendered in brilliant Technicolor.. "                                                                                                    —Keith Bellows "It we were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow in some parts a very paradise on earth. I should point to India."                               —Max Mueller The most valuable assets of India as a desirable more...