Essays

"From I9SS-2005, an estimated 5 million people who would otherwise have been paralysed will be walking because of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Through polio eradication efforts a significant investment has been made in strengthening health service delivery systems in many countries. Hundreds a/thousands of health workers have been trained^ millions of volunteers live been mobilized to support immunization campaigns and cold-chain transport equipment has been refurbished"                                                                                          —A Report. "The world the a unique opportunity to end the crippling effects of polio forever".                    —WHO/Jean-Marc Giboux With the 2005 deadline to eradicate polio from the world. India, where a polio outbreak last year threatened the global eradication efforts, is intensifying measures to take on the challenge and officials assess 2003 to be the year with lowest ever number of polio cases. However, the optimism comes with a rider that the peak season is not yet over. So far92poliocases have been more...

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by 'Sudden flight, But they. while their companions slept, Were tolling upward in the night.                                                                                                                                                                                 —Longfellow   There can't be any short cut to success. The toil of years, the sweat of your brow, struggle you make, everything counts in achieving the goal. Looking at the biographies of great men, we find that the most of the successful persons whether inventors, artists, scientists, technocrats, sculptures, thinkers, leaders and workers of any kind, owe their success to their indefatigable hard work and dedication. They were the men who achieved their success with dedication, devotion and true hard work. This really holds that the secret of success consisted in being master of our subject. Such mastery is attainable through continuous application and study. Those, who work diligently, not only achieve their goals and get success, but also remain happy, more...

"If one view as a source of solutions for the country economic and social problems, the Indian polity is increasingly seen by political observers as the problem. Law and order have become increasingly tenuous because of tlie growing inability of the police to curb criminal activities and quell communal disturbances. Indeed many observers bemoan the "criminalization" of Indian politics at a time when politicians routinely hire "muscle power" to improve their electoral prospects and criminals themselves successfully run for public office. These circumstances have led some observers to conclude that India has entered into a growing crisis of governance. When populist political appeals stir the passions of the masses, government institutions appear less capable titan ever before of accommodating conflicts in a society mobilised along competing ethnic and religious lines. The democracy is at a stake ."India became sovereign Democratic Republic at 10:18 a.m . on January 26, 1950, with 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...

"Hunters and traders ill fur, ivory, animals and animal articles have in their greed plundered forests and hilled millions of innocent animals all over the world in order to make quick bucks, causing so many animals to be extinct and threatening many others. These disastrous acts still go on. Living creatures are so dependent on each other and the survival of the human race also being dependant on them has caused great concern in the international community right from the beginning of the 20th century". Nature has been the core of human existence. Over a period of time we, humans have in so many ways in the so called quest for development and making inventions and discoveries exploited and ravaged the base of our very existence. Environment consists of the physical surroundings and conditions including the quality of air, water, greenery, vegetation and all forms of living creatures forming a more...

"Today mass media, specifically the visual media, plays pivotal role in creating an atmosphere of awareness tinning the society. Visual Media refers to different communication channels or ways through which knowledge and information is conveyed to the viewers or the readers through knowledge, television, cinema, posters etc. Whatever is supplied through the visual media have fast and long lasting effect on the minds of the viewers.'  With rapid development of information and technology the visual media in the shape of cable TV. With multitudes of domestic and foreign channels have reached in almost every house, plays vital role in mounding lie public opinion in various ways.  It plays very crucial role in educating, and entertaining the masses. 7'hecable TV has changed the means and modes of entertainment and education. Sitting before a TV. One can pass and enjoy his leisure listening music, viewing movie, learning techniques of body building, hearing more...

"After 15 long years and much hobbling Indian Cricket team   I embarked on the historic tour to Pakistan in March 2004. A lot of hitch prevailed upon the decision offending Indian Cricket team to   ' Pakistan/or security and safety reasons, but thanks to prudency and statesmanship of Mr. Vajpayee that Indian Cricket team could visit Pakistan and not only won the cricket matches but also the soul and heart of the Pakistani people" After partition, it was the First time when thousands of Indian poured i| Pakistan by road. rail and by air to watch the India-Pak ODI and Test Series. Kudos to the people of Pakistan who welcomed every Indian with affability and geniality that had no parallel since partition. Even the long history of cricket matches between the two countries never find such a praise and admiration which made everyone believe as if two brothers are playing and more...

"Raja Ram Roy was a great reformer, a great scholar. He tried to create a new Hindu religion philosophy and enfolded in it the existence of one God and other beliefs which were then not the predominant features in Hinduism. He attacked some Hindu traditions and features among them caste system, child marriages, Sati - burning of the live wife over her dead husband^ pyre, idolatry and other beliefs. He tried to change the popular Hindu traditions and claimed that the popular Hindu traditions were different from the real Hindu beliefs." Raja Ram Roy was bom in Radhanagar village in Bengal's Hooghly district on May 22,1772, to conservative Bengali Brahmin parents. Ram Mohan's parents, Ramakanta Roy and Tarini Mukherjee, were devout Hindus. His father worshipped Vishnu. Ram Mohan showed a religious disposition from an early age. At the age of 14 he wanted to be a "sanyasi" hermit, but his more...

Very strange and paradoxical it seems that preparedness for war is essential for preserving peace. But the saying, appears to be true for if a country be well equipped with all the modem war gadgets and weapons, other nations will have to think twice before taking any conflict with it. On the other hand. a weak nation becomes prey to the whims and aggressions of powerful neighbors. Balance of Power is must for preserving the peace. Peace means freedom from war, but how can one preserve it unless or until you are well equipped you can't preserve your peace. A peace loving nation may not have the intention to enlarge its empire but who can guarantee the dictates of other neighbor countries. What happened with our country when China attacked in 1962? We, being fully peace loving country, never felt necessity till then to be equipped our self with modem more...

INDIA possesses 2.4 per cent of the total land area of tile world but it has to support about 16 per cent of the total world population. J With fast expanding population, education acquires a vastly different role. Leaders have talked about the perils of population explosion. But there has never been any real effort al changing the nature of education in India la cope with the threatening dangers that we are ^f swimming in. The decennial increase in population from 1991-2091   | is I S.I crores, equivalent to total population of Canada, France and Germany. We can’t afford such increase in population. The Indian population can roughly be divided into three broad categories. Firstly, there are the large ignorant masses of illiterate and semi-literate people remain unconscious of the alarming consequences of their multiplications and additions. They are even not aware of various modes of family planning’s. Some them more...