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In the words of John Milton, a good book is worth possessing since it is “the precious life-blood of a master spirit.” Whereas Jawaharlal Nehru said, “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some to be chewed and digested.” A book has great power for good and evil. A good […]

The famous English poet Wystan Hugh Auden had once rightly said that “Water is the soul of earth” as all prominent civilisations such as the Indus Valley Civilisation, the Mesopotamian Civilisation have come up on the banks of the Indus and Nile rivers. The land along the rivers was very fertile and all these civilisations […]

The machinery of Government in the States is organised on the same pattern as that of the Union Government. As in the Union, the Government in the States is based on the parliamentary model. The Head of a State is called the Governor who is the constitutional head as the President is for the Union. […]

The First World War broke out in August 1914. The Allied powers claimed that they were fighting the war for freedom and democracy. In the beginning of the war, some of the Indian nationalists took the British statesmen on their word. They offered utmost support to the government’s war efforts. Their hope was that the […]

Keep your eyes on the Sun and you will not see the shadows.” —Australian Aborigine saying The struggle for freedom in India, from an empire whose “sun never set”, was a movement driven by hope. The movement against apartheid in South Africa, in spite of several setbacks, was kept alive with hope. When Dr. Martin […]

Inhaling polluted air is not fair! Spread solution, not pollution! Air is the Earth’s atmosphere. When Earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago from a hot mix of gases and solids, it had almost no atmosphere. The surface was molten. As Earth cooled, an atmosphere was formed mainly from gases spewed from volcanoes. After about […]

The sun rises and the sun sets, many come to the world and many depart from this world. But only a few always remain fresh in the hearts and minds of people. They were the ones who effected a change in their true being and in their attitude. It is a change that transformed themselves, […]

These words by Thomas Jefferson hold true even till date and will hold gravity till times immemorial. There is a tremendous paucity of audacious people, who venture towards unexplored horizons to achieve something big in their life. The world teems so much with such timid souls that those who go off the beaten path and […]

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