Employees’ Rights to Strike

 “India is perhaps a unique country where one witnesses a bandh or strike almost every other day. “ —A foreign Press reporter. Our Constitution guarantees the basic rights to every citizen of the country in the chapter on Fundamental Rights. It is also a virtual fact that the fundamental rights of people as a whole cannot be subservient to the fundamental rights of a group...

Hardship of Working Women

 “Today there is no field where the women have not shown their worth. From holding highest public office in bureaucracy to holding highest political position, the women have shouldered all kinds of responsibilities with grand success. A lot of change has taken place, in their position in this man dominated society. With this gradual transition from household life to working...

Human Rights Violation

“It is the obligation of the State to ensure everyone the right to adequate food, education, and enjoyment of highest attainable standards of physical and mental health. These rights have to be respected and made available to the citizens by the State”. —Justice Anand Chairperson Human Rights Commission Human rights violations have to come very commonly nowadays. The Newspapers...

Cities on the Verge of Collapse

 “After more than 56 years of independence, with launching and implementing many five years plans, the cities of modern are on the verge of collapse. The cities epitomes an area wherein the habitats, whether rich or poor, are bound to face the scourges of exploding population, air pollution contaminated water sources, bumps solid wastes, intolerable noise pollution, inadequate...

Nationalism

 “Nationalism is a sacred passion, a great moral and ethical belief, a social expression on a national plane, immense love for the country. It is an infrangible notion to treat loyalty to one’s nation superior to all other loyalties”. A true nationalist is one who regards his country as the cause of his existence and ready to abandon his own interests for its welfare. An...

Menace of Drug Addiction

 “The problem of Drug addiction has gradually been taken an alarming proportion. Today there are more than 1,00,600 drug addicts in Mumbai alone. Five of them die each day owing to repeated intake of lethal drugs. The parents of nearly all young addicts never imagined that their sons or daughters could fall victims to this dangerous vice. We all know that drug addiction had been...

Corruption Vs Economic Growth

 “Corruption free government is not a necessary condition for rapid economic development. If the corporate and institutions work and uncertainty is checked, progress is possible“. —S. Swatninathan Corruption in any form is treated as an incurable disease, a cause of many social and economic evils in the society and it damages the moral and ethical fibers of the civilization....

A Natural Calamity

 “Even after 57 years of independence and passing through ‘navy Five Years Plans, the vagaries of drought and floods could not be tackled by the nation effectively, thereby causing lot of destruction to the already poverty stricken community of our country.” Drought has become a recurring natural calamity faced by many States in India, costing a huge amount to the exchequer,...

Elimination of ‘Female Fetus’

“In India, we have inherited the cultural legacy of having strong son preference among all communities, religious groups, and citizens of varied socioeconomic backgrounds. Patrilocality, patrilineage, and patriarchal attitudes manifest in women and girls having a subordinate position in the family, discrimination in property rights, and low paid or unpaid jobs. Women’s work is...

Rights of the Disabled

“Disability is a class in itself that anyone may fall victim to at any time. It can come about as a result of a sudden accident, a fall down a flight of stairs, or disease. Disability maintains no socio-economic boundaries. Since disability catches up with most people in its fold in old age, it is a class that any of us may fall in it someday.” Even today the disabled in India...