Though rising prices is not a new phenomenon, yet the common man tends to compare the current prices with those prevailing during the past few years. Prices have substantially increased since 1995, and have shown an upward trend, especially after the Budget and hikes in on regular administered prices. It … RISING PRICES AND THE COMMON MANRead more
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C.S.S, C.S.P. , P.C.S Competitive and other University Examinations
. A NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
The search for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) since 1974 has meant that the responsibility for achieving a basic economic security and freedom, economic domination of any given country is A that of the people of that country alone. It must be shared by the international community at large. … . A NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDERRead more
WHAT IS SOME FEATURES OF URBAN LIFE
It must not be forgotten that modern technology has not made itself felt uniformly, nor even universally. Some areas – notably Russia, Pakistan and the Orient – are still dominantly agricultural; and their cities do not display the characteristics of cities as we know them in the West. Generally speaking, … WHAT IS SOME FEATURES OF URBAN LIFERead more
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 … WHAT IS DISCIPLINE IN PUBLIC LIFERead 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 … WHAT IS NEEDS FOR NEW VALUESRead 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 … WHAt IS HIGHER LEVELS OF HUMAN LIFERead 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 … IS MODERN CIVILISATION A FAILURE?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, … STRIKES AND LOCK- OUTS-SHOULD THEY BE BANNED?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 … LIBERTY IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT BREADRead 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 … WHAT IS POLITICS AND ETHICSRead more