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Leisure time may be a problem with some but it is not so with me. I read in a book that Churchill painted during leisure hours. I feel attracted when I see some interesting handicraft piece anywhere. I feel curious to know how it was done. Daily...

The most obvious stand is to write against greed. Greed is a recognized vice and it is born of an excess desire for something. It may be of power, wealth, ambition, name, fame, and what not. It brings in its wake tension and unhappiness. But apart...

Happiness is a kind of joy; it is a state of the mind. There are many kinds of happiness. A child becomes happy when he/she gets a toy. A scientist becomes happy when he discovers his desired object. Similarly a poet or a writer becomes happy when...

Fortunately the answer calls for no special thinking, as it is too evident. I think that the subject is at everyone’s finger tip and it is computer, both hardware and software.  It is today almost unavoidable. The future lies with it. But I...

cThe epigram that is the core of the subject is too true to be denied. But yet, when I put it to my personal life, I fail to equate the statement with my life. The situation underlines a paradox. On the face of it, I fall into the second category...

River and lakes are almost as old as civilization itself. The roads and Rails are, admittedly, a much later phase. Even in the prehistoric days the waters formed the prime routes. Naturally commerce art and culture and even raids or invasions were...

‘Government of the people, by the people’ – this is a patent and ubiquitous definition of democracy. The other two alternative forms of equal universal validity are oligarchy and aristocracy. Of the three, democracy is by far the best and most...

‘Show’ and ‘Substances’ are universally opposed concepts, and have passed into common parlance. But they require a brief expounding. ‘Show’ here implies attractive and tempting elements while ‘substances’ stands for internal qualities or elements...

The topic is almost a platitude today. Its basic concept cannot be denied and in the present day context the equality of status between the two genders is no longer a debatable issue. On the contrary aggression, presumptuous behaviour among women...

The premise of the above topic has assumed today a universal significance, which has never been so in the history of human civilization. My doctor uncle had once said that a man of sound health becomes aware of part of his body only when that part...

Cyber cafes and cell phones are the two mind-boggling asserts of the modern age. India’s status as a nation is nondescript; neither a developing nor a ‘developed’ country. In such a fluid condition when the poor are getting poorer and vice-versa,...

“Joy and woe are woven fine A texture for the theme divine” These lines of the great English mystic poet William Blake would serve as an appropriate beginning of the article. Life is indeed an adventure. Adventure tacitly assumes the risk of the...

Each and every living being on this planet requires security, protection; safety etc. like them, man needs such fundamental necessities also. Therefore, a very relevant question creep into our mind, how can they acquire them? Generally a home is...

Hobby plays an important role in our life. It even makes one a complete man. But most people do not know how to utilize their leisure period. They often spend their leisure in wondering what to do. Again the others spend smoking, eating, watching...

It is truly said that a tree is a life. In fact, trees play an important part in our economic and social life. We cannot live without the direct effect of trees. They not only provide timber, fruits, seeds, nectar etc. but also produce oxygen that...

We all know that we have to do our work at any coast then why not we do our work with joy and happiness instead of doing the work in tension and getting headache from it, which we usually get from our office work or from our house work so it is...

Education is the backbone of a nation. Without education a nation can never stand. So illiteracy is a curse in the life of a nation. A nation is often called backward if it consists of most illiterate fellows. In the Middle Ages ability to read...

Introduction - Importance in our everyday life  The importance of newspaper reading is immense in our everyday life. It has become part and parcel of the life of modern media. A modern man does nothing without the help of newspaper. It seems...

Introduction In our society we often see the divisions among people. The rich and wealthy dominate the poor. We often forget that all men are equal. Each and every one has the right to live freely and equally. They have rights to use all the...

Background Before I write anything further on what to many will be a contentious topic, its worth to ponder of how Islam came to India.  The initial invasions were by the Turks and the Arabs who entered India in about the 9th and 10th...