Category: A better tomorrow
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Bottom-up approach to the human rights!
Source: United Nations website Yesterday, on 10th December, it was the International Human Rights Day. The theme chosen by the United Nations this year was- “Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials”. There was a beautiful conference organized by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) at Bharat Mandapam to commemorate the occasion. The Chief Guest, the Hon’ble…
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The development that we need before all developments!
We need different kinds of developments to make our nation developed like infrastructure development, industrial development, environmental development, social development etc. But, often in this discussion, one thing we tend to overlook is this- development for whom? For the people obviously! Then, why do we forget the basic and core element of the studies of…
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The fragile connection between life and death- a different perspective!
What is the single most common desire that is present amongst all the living beings in the world, including human beings and other animal species? It is nothing else than the basic innate “desire to live life”! Almost nobody who is born in this world wants to die before living his/her own life to the…
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The fading boundary between real and fake!
Yesterday I was listening to the AI-generated Kishor Kumar version of “Saiyaara song” and if you would just close your eyes and listen to the song, I bet you couldn’t make out whether this is an AI-generated fake version or is it the real legen…(wait for it)…dary Kishor Kumar singing! The boundaries have faded to…
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When will there be an end to political untouchability among large masses?
When I was in college, one day I was discussing with my good friend about the future career prospects. The moment I told him that I wanted to join Civil Services, he snapped at me saying that he could never work under the uneducated and dumb politicians, so Civil Services is out of the question…
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Don’t let the cat cross your pathway to reasoning!
Since our childhood, we have heard so many superstitions from our elders and so many times, that at one point of time in our childhood they all seemed to be true. One such was this- “If the cat crosses your path, then it is a bad omen that something disastrous will happen to you soon.…
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The big difference between government and private sector
And do they share any commonalities? This is an issue of debate in our country and in abroad since last few decades. In the domain of public administration, this issue of government vs. private sector OR government and private sector has gained prominence in the academic domain. But, here I will discuss from my own…
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Does your world make “sense”?
As a thinking human being with ability to understand, analyse and visualize, we often make out our own sense of this world. This experience can vary from person to person. But, we often take for granted the “senses” that enable us to make this sense. Don’t get confused in the jargon of the words, I…
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Demystifying the existential mystery and natural laws!
The world we look around seems to be very complex juxtaposition of several things, entangled with each other in a very intricate and multifarious manner which makes it sometimes very difficult to understand. We may try to simplify things to ease our understanding, yet it does not change the nature of things that exist in…