Archives August 2012

This line which has since taken the shape of a proverb really occurs in the famous poem 'my heart leaps when I behold 'of Wordsworth, the great poet. It implies that the qualities and characteristics shown by a child often indicate what the child is going to be as a grown up man. The childhood is the reflection of future personality. The habits, traits, qualities of a man are usually the development of the habits, traits, Qualities he had as a child. A careful study of the characteristic and qualities in a child can help us to foretell his future prospectus. The childhood shows the man. As morning shows the day.   The child is the father of man is proved true in many cases. See the example of ShivaJi who during his childhood, loved so much to hear the stories of famous heroes of Ramayana and Mahabharat, became later more...

"Is there anything like Fate ? Are our lives planned out beginning to end? Well, many people believe that there is something bigger than us. Thai there is a reason for everything. Some believe the everything is a coincidence. It all depends on if one believes in things of more importance to us. Some believe that coincidence is real and not Fate. However, none of this can ever be truly proven ". Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms compares them. Fate suggests inevitability. Fate is the most evocative synonym. It derives from the Latin fari, "to be spoken."The spoken word is powerful. The word has the power to respell and ensorcelled you. Coincidentally or not. the word "spell" derives from the Old English spelled, "to be spoken," the same word as fari. When one speaks, one casts a spell and cast one's fate. Coincidence is appropriately more mundane: "a seemingly planned sequence more...

"The poor give us much more than we give them. They 're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don 'I have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them."                                                                                                                                                                                            —Mother Teresa   Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu later on known as Mother Teresa was bom into a middle class Albanian family in Skopje, then Yugoslavia, on Aug. 26, 1910. As a child she was called Gonxha. Her father, a businessman and member of the community council, died when she was only nine years old. Her mother, Drana, raised Gonxha and her siblings, Aga and Lazar, alone. Drana Bojaxhiu earned a living by sewing, and was much conscientious about the religious education of her children.  Mother Stresses Piety : The family prayed every evening and attended church daily. "I heard the call to more...

"India has emerged from a long period of economic libber alit. The country's economic scene appears excellent in all spheres, This year can be taken as the most flourishing year that India has ever had after India attained freedom."  India's GDP growth in the eighties averages 5% per annum. The growth rate during métier save raged at 6%, despite some adverse developments. All the prospects of economy have seen a tremendous boom this year. People are said to have experiencing 'Feel Good Factor' of the emerging economy. Today Indians command a high respect throughout the world. Many foreigners have started coming to India for medical treatment. Wal-Mart, the biggest company  in the world, making plans to purchase more than $5 billion worth of goods from Indian companies. The emergence of the country as an important player in the software and IT sector has led to recognition by all developed countries more...

The Supreme Court defined ragging in following words: "Any  disorderly conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of leasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student indulging in rowdy or indiscipline activities which causes or likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychology- cal harm or to raise fear of apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any act or perform swellings which such students will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student." The apex court has taken into consideration, while defining ragging all kinds of acts faced by a fresher or a junior while subjecting to ragging by the seniors.  Ragging has become more...

"After more than 56 years of independence, with launching and implementing many jive years plans, the cities of modern India, are on the verge of collapse. The cities epitomes an area wherein the habitants, whether rich or poor, are bound to face the scourges of exploding population, air pollution contaminated water sources, blimps solid wastes, intolerable noise pollution, inadequate transport system, creaked road unable to cope with the proliferation of private and public vehicles, shortage of water, breakdown of electricity, choked sanitary, drainage and sewage system, increasing crime against fair sex and unsafe senior citizens, with criminally indifferent attitude of government officials to every kind of problems." One more peculiar thing about cities is the scant regard for keeping the cities clean and tidy. The indifferent attitude and deliberate neglect by the civic authorities have caused the cities a bump of solid and other wastes choking and overflowing sewage and more...

"For any coalition, the hidden enemies within the Government are more unpredictable lliiin the outsiders. The trouble started even before the ship was to set sail and captain knew well that a rough voyage and hidden icebergs are ahead of him ". It appears that the chapter of a single party rule. in India has become a matter of past. The most significant development in Indian political scene since 1996. Has been the emergence of coalition era in Indian Politics. Till 1989, the stable Government at the centre under the leadership of Smt. Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi did well. In 1989, the country was amidst instability as Rajeev Gandhi lost power and Mr. V.P Singh took over as the next Prime Minister of Minority Government. Mr. V.P Singh had to step down as BJP withdrew its support. Mr. Chandra Shekhar assumed power and formed Government with Congress more...

"All kinds of communalism are dangerous. Just before 1947, the main damage to national unity was inflicted by Muslim communalism which led to the partition of India. After 194 7 it is the Hindu communalism which poses great threat to India's democracy and its unity.                                                                                                    —A Thinker. India is a secular State. Secular means non-religious, but in the context of Indian polity, it means the co-existence of all religions without any kind of discrimination. Though our constitution safeguards for the minorities, the actual implementations of the provisions is a complex one. Indian people are generally known for their "on- violence. tolerance, brotherhood characters, that is why number of religion has flourished in Indian society. After the traumatic partition and bloodshed, du; 11 partition, has given the political parties, several inflammable issues for exploiting passions for their political gains. Not only the politicians, but also the religious heads of minorities more...

One thing that the politicians have learnt is to reserve quotas in education and employment for al I those communities that stick together to form vote banks. So the communities that are very well-knit such as the tribals, many occupational castes, and the lucrative chunk of Muslims get covered. The politicians are just trying again to divide the castes further in the name of reservation. The Congress tells Muslims that Hindus are ill-treating them; BSP, RJD, DMK etc., tell the ' lower' castes that they have to fight the 'higher' castes; regional parties ask their people to fight those from other states such as Shiv Sena is against Biharis; and DMK asks the Tamilians to fight Hindi-speaking North India! And yet we have the temerity to harp on 'Unity in Diversity'. Whither unity? With what in mind are we flooding every page of school textbooks with this meaningless phrase "Unity more...

Recess plays very important role in the learning, social development, and health of school children. Because recess is one of the few times in the school day when children can interact freely with other students. It is a valuable time in which we can observe children's social behaviors, their tendency to bully and fight, as well as their leadership and prosaically behaviors. Seeing how the students interact socially can help teachers intervene in situations involving aggression or social isolation. Physical inactivity poses health threats for children as well as for adults. Inactivity is associated with the tripling of childhood obesity accompanied by increases in health problems such as tension and depression. The most obvious characteristic of recess is that it constitutes a break from the day's routine study. For people of all ages and in all fields, breaks are considered essential for sound health and alertness. Experimental research on memory more...