Essays

Our economic development is emerging by leaves and bound. It all began with the long journey of single step and miles. Before the advent of the British rule, India had a self-sufficient, village-based economic system pre- dominated by agriculture and handicrafts. The manufacturing industry was confined to making of agricultural tools and implements, utensils, weapons and jewellery. The Britishers had their vested interest. Initially they were interested in the loot and plunder of the country but finally they looked upon India for their further aim. During the 200 years of British rule the land of plenty was reduced to a land of hunger and misery. But the challenge of the removal of poverty was taken up immediately after independence in the shape of five-year plans. We have tried to highlight the fact that our country's economy is in full swing. It is transition from poverty to plenty. The process of more...

One of the great themes pervading Indian life is social interdependence. People are born into groups—families, clans, subcastes, castes, and religious communities—and live with a constant sense of being part of an inseparable from these groups. A corollary is the notion that everything a person does properly involves interaction with other people. A person's greatest dread, perhaps, is the possibility of being left alone, without social support, to face the necessary challenges of life. This sense of interdependence is extended into the theological realm: the very shape of a person's life is seen as being greatly influenced by divine beings with whom relationship must be maintained. Social interaction is regarded as being of the highest priority in Indian families, and social bonds are expected to be long lasting. Even economic activities that might in Western culture involve impersonal interactions are in India deeply embedded in a social nexus. All social more...

Like footprints on a beach, every age leaves its mark in the form of art that further serves not just as a remembrance of the time gone by but also-as a foundation for the generation to come. Literature, as a whole, asserts the right to mirror the society or the age of which it is a product. While it exhibits the subtle make up of human heart, at the same time it presents before us the intricate workings of human mind that formed history and shaped the future. Driving the vehicle of humour, irony and satire, it span time and often transports the reader's gullible mind to traverse lands in ages that once brimmed with life. While history verifies facts, literature glorifies them with a play of words and binds the readers in its spell. Be it Victorian comprise, illustrating the fusion of science and religion, or Pope's satirical yet more...

What exactly is happiness and what can engender it? Though it is defined as the condition of being content, different people may have their own ideas of happiness. It is commonly thought of as having a lot of money, power, or fame. But can these things actually make people happy? Happiness is actually more than what most people think it is. It can be mysterious and elusive, sought after by many, but not gained by all. Happiness resides not in transient possessions or gold, but instead in the conviction that we are loved. Happiness, which is often thought of as a fairly simple concept, is actually more than what people assume it is. Although this natural mood or feeling is desired by numerous people, it is very elusive and therefore, for some, extremely difficult to obtain. Happiness is frequently sought after but not gained. Though not everybody accepts the utilitarian more...

Within this world that we live on, there is an enormous amount of people. Each of these people belongs to different cultures and societies. Every society has traits and customs that make it unique. These societies follow different moral codes. This means that they may have different answers to the moral questions asked by our own society. What I am trying to say is that every society has a different way of analyzing and dealing with life's events, because of their cultural beliefs. This is claim is known as Cultural Relativism. Cultural Relativism is the correct view of ethics. To continue with the subject of murder, there are many questions about murder that our own society faces. Within our own society there are conflicting views on topics such as abortion, capital punishment and, euthanasia. To some these acts are considered to be murder, to others they are necessary to our more...

Liberalisation and globalisation are the catchwords that we assume will lead our country to its pinnacle of success. Such is the euphoria that very often we fail to look at the missing links. This is particularly evident with respect to the working class women of India whose problems and grievances generally go unheard. And further, universalisation tends to gloss over a mass of very vital differences, which are highly relevant in determining the position of women. The negation of their position becomes apparent in the way we treat women worker's double burden of both housework and economic activities. In fact, policy makers at the macro level do not have a realistic perception of the household, and so consequently, the true impact of policies is not identified. Their policies are simply governed by economic parameters which assume that women make only a marginalised contribution to the economy. Only when women form more...

At its simplest, E-learning is using the Web to learn. It is the ability of learners or students to learn what they want, when they warn, in the form that best suits them in the  modules or 'chunks' that they want. By accommodating learner preferences, they want" By accommodating fundamentally enhanced the learning experience is more effective. Trained people are more makes the learning more effective. Trained people are more confident which makes them even more effective and productive preferences. By knowing the student is a sales rep, for example, the highly technical information that is actually targeted for an engineer is not delivered. Further, if a preference for audio has been expressed, the delivered lesson can have more audio segments than text. Another key way to focus on the learner is by providing' prescriptive learning. In my example about the call centre rep, the student started his training efforts more...

Racism is objectively defined as 'any practice of ethnic discrimination or segregation'. Fortunately, racial violence is steadily declining as the turn of the century approaches. Now a new form of racism, covert racism, has recently sprung from the pressures of political correctness. This new form of racism, although slowly declining, still shows signs of strong support. Covert racism assumes a form of civil disobedience against politically correct thought and speech. Essentially, covert racism is a 'hidden' racism, or racism not easily detected. The three different basic forms of racism are open racism, violent racism, and covert racism. All express forms of hatred towards distinct ethnic groups. These basic forms of racism, although different in form, all have the same main purpose, to promote racism. Open racism expresses freedom of racial thought and speech. Open racists promote their views through strictly persuasion tactics. Open racism is currently almost nonexistent and steadily more...

If you ask a rational thinker - what is politics? He will answer - Politics is a dirty game of scoundrels to make money. Well, this answer might create many arguments. But, unfortunately, this seems to be an appropriate definition of 'today's polities'. Today politics has become a profession. People join it not for serving nation but for serving themselves. It is a mere means of earning and more and more money. They are least bothered with the development of nation. All they are concerned with is their power and bank balances. Earlier politics was considered as a 'responsibility' and today it has become just a 'profession'. Earlier people used to join politics so that they could sacrifice their lives in serving the nation. Now-a-days people join politics to earn power to rule people and become strong monetarily. Earlier we were having leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Lal Bahadur more...

India at the time of independence was a country beset with great economic problems. It had suffered colonial exploitation for about two centuries' and was recovering painfully from the blight of a distressing famine. The disruption of life caused by the Second World War had aggravated the crisis. Large parts of the country were under the feudal rule of Indian princes and only a miniscule minority had taken any initiative to modernise their states. In any case, the benefits of industrialisation remained confined to a small privileged section be the society. With freedom from foreign rule also came partition and the government was confronted with the awesome task of rehabilitating millions of refugees. Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of India since independence has been to overcome the trauma of partition and forge a unified modern nation from a bewildering diversity. India today can take pride in its federal form of more...