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India has made great progress in several spheres. She could have made even more progress had she been able to control effectively the galloping numbers of mouths to be fed.   In spite of all the money spent and the efforts made, the population explosion has been controlled in India only marginally.   At the time of Independence the population of India was about 35 crore. Now within a span of less than sixty years, it is poised to triple itself.   The main reason for this tremendous increase in population is illiteracy and poverty. The poor illiterate people consider the coming of child a gift from God.   The population explosion has created a number of problems such as, housing, food, clothing, medicine, sanitation, education and many other innumerable ones.   These people also think that if they have more members in the family, they would be able to more...

It is believed that India is likely to become a fully developed nation by 2020. In any case, I can have a dream about India. The India of my dreams will be a fully developed nation.   In the India of my dreams, there will be no poverty, no illiteracy, no disease, no unemployment, no scams, no shortages of food and no serious problems.   In such an India population will have stabilized. All the People will be literate, highly learned and skilled. It will be an egalitarian society in India that I dream of. There will be no wide disparity in incomes and possession of property and hence no heart-burning.   In the India of my dreams, there will be no communalism. All communities, even while observing their own different rituals and having different faiths and creeds, will live in peace and respect each other's sentiments.   Such an more...

Punctuality implies proper use of time at the right moment instead of repenting on the lost time later. The phrase 'a stitch in time saves nine' conveys that if a cloth needs a stitch, it should be mended immediately, otherwise the  cloth may tear further and require more stitches.   Of course, it is better and easier to make a single stitch in less time than to make many stitches in more time. We should always act wisely and in time. We must make proper use of time. Time wasting may result in a great loss of life and money.   The virtue of punctuality is not difficult to Observe. A wakeful mind can easily observe it while a lazy person cannot. He, who delays his work often suffers for it. Rules of punctuality are against postponement.   it is hard to imagine the chaos if schools, colleges, offices, trains more...

In India, there are certain things which do not change or if they change, they change only to take a more negative shape. This is true about  most of the Indian marriages while leaving some scope for exceptions which are always there in all ventures, good or bad.   With the passage of time, the noisiness and expensiveness of Indian marriages has attained dizzy heights. We might blame the elders for being superstitious, but we fail to realize that any amount of superstitiousness is at least better than vulgarity, obscenity and rowdyism.   Last Sunday, I was invited to the marriage of one of my relatives. I was on the girl's side.   The poor girl had been subjected to horrendous treats of facials, waxings, fruits pastes on the face, Mehandi, powders, chemicals, even petrol which was mixed in the so-called Kali Mehandi and was smeared on her delicate hands, more...

The dowry system is an age old system and a peculiar phenomenon of the Indian society. It is, as today, a curse to the society. Dowry is the name given to all that, the parents of a girl give to her when she gets married.   At the face of it, the system seems quite appropriate, healthy and logical, for, in this simple way, the parents of the girl help her in setting a new home. So far, so good and, originally also the purpose of dowry was very justified and understandable.   Let us now analyse how and why this system took birth at all? In the earlier times of Indian society, the daughter had no share in the father's property so, by way of dowry the girl would get at least some portion of her share.   Besides this, in those days, the girls were not educated so, more...

Delhi covers an area of 1,483 sq. km. and roughly, has a population of 6,220,406. Major languages spoken are Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Its literary level is 61.54%.   Delhi was founded in the 11th century AD. by a Rajput chieftain of the Tomara clan. The Chauhans claimed possession of the city from the Tomara clan. Prithvi Raj, the Chauhan leader nd ruler of Ajmer and Delhi, made the city of Delhi famous for his heroic deeds and romantic adventures.   The first invasion of India by Muhammad Ghori was beaten back by Prithvi Raj, but he lost when Ghori returned to defeat him the second time.   Prithvi Raj was captured and put to death. Delhi then passed into the hands of Muslim rulers for the next six centuries.   Under the Mughal Emperors, Delhi became a world famous city. In 1912, the capital of British India was transferred more...

When discussing the generation gap, many issues surface. In this article in Newsweek, issues such as music, morals, and goals arise with the wide gulf of generations in the black community.   Older Americans continue to be separated from the growing hip-hop culture, and they, along with the hip-hop community, have not yet learned how to deal with this separation. Music is one of the largest rifts between the civil rights generation and the hip-hop generation.    An increase in violence, sex, and disrespect in modern music reflects the increase in violence, sex, and disrespect in the modern pop culture. This is the view of younger black Americans.    Older Americans feel that the violent and sexually explicit music is the cause of such chaos and degradation of our society. Morals have declined, and this is evident even in the professional world of the NBA.   Disrespect for referees and more...

This is a famous saying of saints and priests. All the religions of world preach only one thing that a person should live simply but should have high thinking. Many of our forefathers have reached a height of greatness and fame by following this principle.   The father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi was a follower of this principle. The social reformers of Indian history Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Kabir, Dayanand led a simple life and were always kind and helpful towards others.   But now in today's competitive world people are no longer ready to follow this principle. Our traditional moral values have become obsolete. Now the attitude of people has changed. The only thing that people are interested in is to earn money and at any cost.   The people want to live in lap of luxuries and Comforts. The status symbol and prestige is more important to more...

Last Sunday, I went to see a football match. It was played between G. D. Soni Sr. Sec. School and Ramjas Boys Sr. Sec. School. It was played in Ramjas School's playground.   It was a sunny day. The boys of both the school had gathered in the ground. They were sitting on opposite sides. They were shouting in favour of their own teams. There was lot of excitement in the ground.   At 3 p.m. the match started. For the first ten minutes, the two teams were equally fighting. Slowly the G. D. Soni School's team started playing aggressively. They tired to take ball in Ramjas Boys Schools net, but the goalkeeper failed their efforts. It was a tough fight.   Both the teams were unable to score any goal till half time. The game seemed to be nearing a draw.   After the break the game resumed. Both more...

I am a great lover of poetry. I learn poems in my literature class and I have studied many poets in detail. Shelly, Keats, Yeats, Wordsworth etc., have been taught to us since we were in class V.   Of all the English poets, the one I am most fond of is Wordsworth. He belonged to the Romantic Age, the age that was a reaction to the neo-classical poetry of the 18th century. Wordsworth wrote in a unconventional style with a diction that was easy to understand. His poetry is 'the spotaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility. He was not so concerned with the downfall of kings and queens. He was more concerned with the simple' people that he came across in his life. The more simple a person was, the more appealing Wordsworth found him. That is the reason why some of his most beautiful and touching more...