WHAT IS DISCIPLINE IN PUBLIC LIFE
Discipline in public life ensures peace and harmony which in turn offers impetus to the forces of progress and prosperity. No country, big or small, can afford to play duck and … Read more
WHAT IS NEEDS FOR NEW VALUES
Democracy, we have been reminded by social scientists from Socrates onwards, is of all forms of governments the most difficult to practise. It is in many respects easier to allow others to do our thinking for us than to work out for ourselves our individual duty as citizens, and do it. A democratic State depends … Read more
WHAt IS HIGHER LEVELS OF HUMAN LIFE
The teachings which are the traditional wisdom of all peoples in man although he, too, desires nothing more than somehow to be able to all parts of the world, have become virtually incomprehensible to modern rise above the whole state of the present life’. He hopes to do so by growing rich, by moving around … Read more
IS MODERN CIVILISATION A FAILURE?
Modern civilisation is primarily the Western Civilisation dominated by the white man. For the time over all preceding civilisation and that is had got a permanent and stable basis and thus would survive for ever, unlike the other civilisations which had their day and then perished. But this belief has been shattered by the two … Read more
STRIKES AND LOCK- OUTS-SHOULD THEY BE BANNED?
Strikes and work stoppages are the order of the day. On all sides we see factories, offices, colleges and universities intermittently closed. protest processions, slogan-shouting, dharnas and gheraos and tents pitched up with large union banners and some time hunger-strikers. There are fasts unto death to have the demands conceded, though onlookers cast doubt on … Read more
LIBERTY IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT BREAD
Usually liberty is licensed by providing a few immunities called political liberties or rights. According to John Stuart Mill, liberty can be licensed in two ways; first by obtaining a recognition of such immunities called political liberties or rights, which it was to be regarded as a breach of judgment in the rules of national … Read more
WHAT IS POLITICS AND ETHICS
The gloralisation of democracy as a form of more legitimate representative government has not been accompanied by genuine efforts to tackle the problems of democracy, such as the lack of equilibrium between equality and liberty, the dictatorship of the majority, the actual as well as manufactured disinterest on the part of the so-called citizens not … Read more
WHAT IS SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
Many people today believe that maintaining order in the school is becoming difficult, though this should not come as a surprise. Society itself is changing and authority is under attack. Society has changed earlier 100. primitive people fought for food, women, home or fuel. As civilisation grew the need for laws to regulate the action … Read more
WHAT IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH
No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or deprived (i.e. deprive of land) or outlawed or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him or put upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or the laws of the land. (Magna Carta year 1215). History is fraught with the fight … Read more
WHAT IS CORRUPTION: THE FACTS
This citation attests to the ancient nature of corruption, which amounts to the abuse of public office for private gain. Yet it also illustrates that even then corruption was regarded as corrosive to the development of the state and that specific measures were therefore needed in response. The king’s adviser perceptively hinted at the link … Read more