''Aids, the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome leas as summed alarming proportions in the last few years, though it has been surreptitiously developing over a number of years." Many theories have been adduced to unravel the mystery shrouding the origin of AIDS, but none is perfect. The first few cases of AIDS came to light in the early eighties. A victim of disease of AIDS was found in 1981, having very low résistance to diseases and later succumbed to pneumonia. The term AIDS was actually coined  in 1982. After much debate the virus was called HIV, Human Immuno Deficiency Virus.                                                            1   Some Facts about AIDS: A positive HIV test does not mean that a person has AIDS. A diagnosis of A! is made by a physician according to the AIDS Case Definition. Over time, infection with HIV (Human Immuno deficiency Virus) can weaken' immune system to the point that the 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...

"Superstition involves beliefs, practices and procedures based upon conscious or unconscious assumptions usually concerned with the nature of cause and effect." The Oxford dictionary defines Superstition, as a thoughtless fear of something unknown or mysterious especially in connection with religious belief based on fear or ignorance. Since times immemorial superstitions prevailed on this earth and millions of people believe in it, while many laugh and ignore it. Dr. Betty, explaining the origin ; of superstition, says that all the mysterious practices together with magic and superstition come from the primitive man's feeling of insecurity in a world he could not understand and was powerless to control. So he looked for any means of foretelling the success of his hunting or farming and invented rituals which were supposed to avert evil and misfortune.  Many people believe so strongly in superstition that no business is started, no task is commenced unless the more...

“Advancement in Science and Technology has given man power fit for 'God' yet he can't be 'God* unless has peace of mind, inner satisfaction respect for moral, ethical and spiritual values." Today science and technology come to play key role in almost every branch of human activity. The wondrous advancement of science and technology in different spheres has completely changed the pace of way of living of the present society. If our forefathers could rise from their grave they would be amazed and bewildered to see the present world. In the field of education, health, transportation, banking, defense, communication, the progressive use of newer scientific and technological equipment, have changed the spectrum of functioning. The gradual use of computers in all walks of life has changed the means and modes of utilizing time and energy of present society.  Blessing: Every new invention have its merits and demerits. No invention is more...

"Disability is a class in itself that anyone may fall victim at any time. It can come about as a result of a sudden accident, a fall down a flight of stairs or disease. Disability maintains no socio-economic boundaries. Since disability catches up with most people in its fold in old age, it is a class that any of us may fall in it someday." Even today the disabled in India see their physical or mental I imitations as either a source of shame or a source of inspiration for others. By concentrating on overcoming the disability, we fail to notice that a disability itself cannot be overcome by a disabled person, however, heroic she or he may be. In the West, the Disability Rights Movement has realized this and, therefore, they proclaim that "it is okay, even good, to be disabled". The Disability Rights Movement: Unlike other movements like more...

“It is against the fundamental principles of humanity, it is against the dictates of reason that a man should, by reason of birth,  be denied or given extra privileges"          —Mahatma Gandhi The Constitution of India does provide special privileges to the downtrodden sections of society called Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The special provisions were primarily for a limited period often years from the date of application of constitution. There is no fixed period for continuation of this privilege. The ten years period of constitutional safeguards continued to be extended each time by ten years. Before the period of earlier ten years expired. According to historians, the most important factor in the growth of caste system was the occupations. Occupations were classified in order of their social status. Initially based on Karma and the percentage of the Gunas; Sattav, Rajas, Tamas, the system became very rigid. During the British reign, more...

"As soon as the Government came to know, that thousands of Pakistani intruders have crossed the LoC (Line of Control) and perched themselves on strategic heights six to seven kilometers inside Indian territory in Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir, the government realized file seriousness of the matter and an operation Vijay was launched to flush out the infiltrators from  the Kargil sector." On May 6, 1999. an Indian army patrol party first noticed some unusual movements in the Batalik sector. The extent of intrusion was discovered the next day itself when a second patrol party was sent to the area. By May 10-14, 1999, the Pakistani intruders were well into the Drass, Kaksar, Mashkoh and Batalik sectors, hazardously threatening the safety of Srinagar-Laeh highway, the virtual line of communication.  This was the third time in the history of Independent India that Pakistan tried to occupy the Kashmir by assisting more...

Many Chief Justices, Judges of lie Supreme Court, the High Courts, The Law Ministers, the Law Commission, the media, the great writers anil thinkers have all lamented over the delay in the dispensation of justice. The inordinate delay in the provision of relief amounts to the virtual denial of any relief found in number of cases. If a case of accidental compensation is decided after ten years when the career of the children is already spoiled for want of money, if a case of property is decided after the death of the plaintiff, what is the value or use of such a decision? Seen in the real or practical sense the courts or the government or the procedures arc the real culprits for the sufferings of the plaintiff- Instead of saying that Delayed Justice is denied Justice, we should say Delayed Justice is the INJUSTICE. Millions of cases are pending more...

"Patriot of Patriots ", this is what Mahatma Gandhi described him, Subasli Chandra Base, popularly known as Neta Ji, occupies an honored place in the history of Indian independence movement. He was a man of great courage, a single minded and dedicated leader completely filled with patriotism. He wanted to free India from British yoke not by peaceful means or petitioning but by waging open. war. Known as Netaji (leader), Mr. Bose was a fierce and popular leader in the political scene in pre-independence India. He was the President of the Indian National Congress in 193 7 and 1939 and founded a national 1st force called the Indian National Army. He was acclaimed as a semi god, akin to the many mythological heroes like Rama or Krishna and continues as a legend in Indian mind.  Subhash Chandra was bom on January 23rd 1897 in Cuttack as the ninth child among more...

"Man’s life work is a masterpiece or a sham e as each little habit has been perfectly or carelessly formed. A canvas painted by a Van Gaiigh fetches millions. One by a slob not even a hundred." —John Riiskin. A habit is like a tree grown crouched. One cannot go to orchard and take hold of a tree grown such and straighten it and say now get straight and make it obey him. When one is young, he can acquire good or bad habits. One starts doing certain act for the sake of pleasure, log the sake of fun and i the is doing that things, that particular act at regular or irregular intervals, he starts enjoying it and starts feeling the necessity of doing it again, at that particular time and it gradually takes a form of a habit. Every chain smoker or a habitual drunkard never starts smoking more...