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Saturday’s clashes between UP police and farmers of Bhatta-Parsaul villages of Noida left four persons dead, including two police men. A district magistrate and more than one dozen people were wounded in these clashes. Later on police took to massive use of ‘police-power’ and beat up every one who ever was found present in the village. Even the children, women folk and old people were not spared. After the armed clash between police and agitating farmers, policemen forcibly entered in every house one-by-one and beat up every one who ever was found present in there. Many houses were looted and put to fire by the angry policemen. Almost every young people of both these villages are missing since Saturday’s clashes and it is being speculated that either they are hiding somewhere or have been ‘abducted’ by UP police goons. UP is being ruled by Mayawati led BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) who is known for her callousness towards public emotions. Opposition parties are trying their best to exploit the farmers’ emotions with an eye of next year’s assembly elections in UP. Many opposition leaders of various political parties tried to enter into the troubled villages in their attempt to exploit the public emotions but were arrested before they could enter into these Bhatta-Parsaul villages. But, somehow, Rahul Gandhi succeeded to enter into these villages on Wednesday and visited almost every house where the signs of UP police’s brutality were still present. He interacted with the villages including women folk and was ‘moved’ to learn their grievances. Because of UP police’s brutality towards farmers he felt ‘ashamed to be an Indian.’ This is not for the first time that farmers have risen up against a state government. Singure, Nandigram are some other examples when state governments acquired land for industrialization from the farmers. As India is progressing, land acquisition requirement is increasing for the industrialization and it has put farmers and the acquisition agencies against each other. It is the irony of fate that farmers provide food to the entire country and in return he faces the odds from every nook and corner. He is humiliated by both the nature and his rulers. It is not the story of a single state but is the fate of farmers of the entire country. If farmers demand their rights, they are beaten to the pulp. Now this farmer stir that had started from Noida [...]

It is not easy to leave one’s own country and get settled on foreign ands. But Indians are master in this field. We can find Indians in each and every corner of the world. Indians have get themselves and their businesses establishes with their best efforts and hard working. Indian’s started leaving their country in the last years of the 19th century especially Punjabi’s went to Canada and other European countries to earn their livelihood and in search good working conditions. With the passage of time they adjusted themselves according to the living and cultural conditions and became citizens of these countries. In last few years they establish many milestones of their achievements and enlighten the name and fame of their country. Although they are well established in foreign countries but they have not broken and forgot the relationship with their country. NRIs fulfill their duties for their motherland and do their most whatever is expected from a true son of a nation. But on the hand they do not get what they expect from the governments and citizens of their homeland. NRI’s require fundamental rights for traveling, staying and justice in their country. Many times they have criticized the ill functioning of our judiciary and bureaucracy and advised various governments to improve these laws towards NRI. In such situation some critics blame NRI’s that they demand a lot of facilities from the ruling governments but don’t work for the welfare of their motherland. So we’ll discuss that what is being done by the NRI’s for their country. Why government, administration and public welcome and provide facilities to these NRI’s? Why they left their motherland for the sake of money and physical resources? First of all we will discuss the basic and small unit of the society in which almost one dozen members live. As they grow up their necessities increase but the resources do not increase according to their requirements. Size of the house, required things, economic resources and natural resources remains unchanged. So in this situation some members of the family decide to leave their motherland to earn their living and provide relief to other members of the family. Their part of food, education, health facility and other resources are used by other people. It is a great sacrifice of these peoples. If they don’t leave these resources then very early they will suffer because of their limited [...]

It is not easy to leave one’s own country and get settled on foreign ands. But Indians are master in this field. We can find Indians in each and every corner of the world. Indians have get themselves and their businesses establishes with their best efforts and hard working. Indian’s started leaving their country in the last years of the 19th century especially Punjabi’s went to Canada and other European countries to earn their livelihood and in search good working conditions. With the passage of time they adjusted themselves according to the living and cultural conditions and became citizens of these countries. In last few years they establish many milestones of their achievements and enlighten the name and fame of their country. Although they are well established in foreign countries but they have not broken and forgot the relationship with their country. NRIs fulfill their duties for their motherland and do their most whatever is expected from a true son of a nation. But on the hand they do not get what they expect from the governments and citizens of their homeland. NRI’s require fundamental rights for traveling, staying and justice in their country. Many times they have criticized the ill functioning of our judiciary and bureaucracy and advised various governments to improve these laws towards NRI. In such situation some critics blame NRI’s that they demand a lot of facilities from the ruling governments but don’t work for the welfare of their motherland. So we’ll discuss that what is being done by the NRI’s for their country. Why government, administration and public welcome and provide facilities to these NRI’s? Why they left their motherland for the sake of money and physical resources? First of all we will discuss the basic and small unit of the society in which almost one dozen members live. As they grow up their necessities increase but the resources do not increase according to their requirements. Size of the house, required things, economic resources and natural resources remains unchanged. So in this situation some members of the family decide to leave their motherland to earn their living and provide relief to other members of the family. Their part of food, education, health facility and other resources are used by other people. It is a great sacrifice of these peoples. If they don’t leave these resources then very early they will suffer because of their limited [...]

Youth is the golden period of life to work hard, to enjoy every moment of sorrow and happiness and to live according to one’s desire. Average age of developed countries like America is high as compared to India’s average age. There are more youngsters in India than the total population of America. But in the field of development we are way behind from developed countries. Youngsters always play a dominant role in bringing changes and revolutions in any country. If we look upon our history we get a list of youngsters who played an important role in bringing great changes in our society and politics. In our freedom struggle Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Udham Singh and Chander Shekhar Azaad like martyrs played an important role and forced to British to flee from India. They are the heroes of our younger generation. They are more popular in the younger generation as compared to the popularity of Mahatama Gandhi. It must be learnt that India got its freedom when thousands of its sons laid their lives to breathe in the free air. Indians got their freedom with their might not as a gift or as a result of some kind of ‘treaty’. Pash, Shiv Kumar Batalvi and john Keats died in a very young age but they had given their ‘masterpieces’ to this world in the peak years of their youth. Their poetry, still, has the same appeal among the poetry lovers. Alexander the Great, too, decided to won the entire world in his young age. Here we are discussing about the youngsters which did something special in their life. But, these days, our younger generation is going in wrong directions. Youngsters are the base and builders of the country; if the base is weak then nothing can remain well with any nation. Our youngsters are lacking Honesty and hardworking like qualities in there character. They are crossing their limits in these days. We all know that ‘excess of anything thing in is bad’. Youngsters laugh at the limits, rules and customs created by our society. When a child steps in the young age his/her body and mind undergo a sea change. New wishes and desires arise in their hearts and their fulfillment is necessary and beneficial for the society. If we don’t control their desires then it can create many harmful problems for the youngsters and the [...]

Teachers are known as the builder of a nation. Their first and foremost duty is to provide education to their students. But teachers are being used by Punjab Government for each and every work instead of education. A new experimentation held on teachers before 40 years. It was the first trial in which a teacher used for un-educational work. Teachers are used to poison the rats by the British at that time. It was the first experiment when teachers were used for non-educational work and it was successful. Teachers finished the rats. After that new experiments were held on teachers to do other government works which was enough to take them away from their duty of teaching. Teachers are compelled to work in making voting cards, conducting election, literacy missions, sensex, economic surveys, to conduct surveys to count number of houses in the village, literate and illiterate person’s list, industrial surveys, helping the health agencies for vaccination of children against deadly diseases like small-pox etc. Now ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ authority is trying out every kind of experiment to harass the government school teachers. Relevant authority demands unnecessary paper work, seminars, workshops and other documentation. Everyday they have to maintain a lot of formalities which are not helpful for teaching and learning. Teacher looks like a postman in these days. The condition of a teacher is like a stepney (extra tyre) which can be used in vehicle when the demand arises for it. A teacher wants to teach to the students but he has to fulfill so many other formalities before indulging in his actual work. To complete this information teacher lose a lot of time and energy. Government school teachers are ill-treated for the bad result in the end of the year. We can see in the newspapers’ headlines like ‘private schools result 100%’, ‘private schools are better than government schools’. At that time every news-reader thinks that government schools’ results are not up to the expected level. But nobody tries to understand the actual reasons of the bad and repulsive results of government schools. Nobody can say to the relevant authority not to use teacher’s services in un-educational activities. There are many private schools in every street which economically are a burden for the parents. They apply every kind of means to educate the children. Their first priority is to earn a lot of money no matter what the economical [...]

Women’s condition is very pitiful after 63 years of independence in India. Women take major and important role in the creation and development of men. A woman is known as attendant and president of the family. But in the next steps of development of society her condition becomes as the servant of the family. Many social service organizations are talking about the equality of the woman with man but fail to take appropriate steps to modify the conditions of the woman. Just with the reference of few women these organizations satisfy the public. Women’s are helpless to live in the hell like conditions. Violence against women is a common phenomenon in every modern society. Woman is beaten in every section of society. It is the only treatment she is equally treated in every sphere of modern day life, as for as violence is concerned. The social conditions, illiteracy and are the reasons behind inequality in diet, education, fundamental rights and physical harassment of women. Beating, robbery, mental and physical torture is general news in modern world. An unborn girl child is killed in the in the stomach of her mother because she in not welcomed in the world because of the reasons mentioned above. It is an unpardonable crime against women class. A woman is a victim of social, economic, cultural and physical torture. Government is filling its papers and not taking the right steps for the welfare of the woman. Most of the women welfare organizations exist only on papers and at ground level nobody have heard there names. Women’s condition has not improved even after the 63 years of independence but has deteriorated manifolds. Just two or three days ago a college girl student was shot dead in front of the gate of her college in capital city, Delhi. A few weeks ago a software engineer was raped and murdered by her own co-workers in Noida when she was on her way back home. These cities are considered most secure for the women. Jessica Lal murder case, Arushi murder case etc are some of the high profile cases in which government, security and investigating agencies have failed to provide justice to the victims. Both these cases had happened in the national capital. In rural and remote areas of our country, women’s condition is very pathetic. They are treated as child producing machines. Though proper arrangements have been made [...]

Road accident is general news in modern world. If we observe seriously the causes of road accidents we found that narrow roads and rapid increase of means of transport are the main reasons behind increasing number of road accidents. Roads are made according to the population of the town and number of the vehicle of that town. But India’s population is growing very rapidly and number of vehicles is growing according to the increasing population. As a result of these rapid changes the roads look narrow and insufficient. It causes traffic jams and these jams increase the possibility of road accidents. The main marked of Punjab’s industrial city of Ludhiana is called ‘Big Bazaar’. When this market place was built it was bigger than the necessity of population of Ludhiana. But in these days when shops and show room cover their front area of this bazaar it looks like a ‘slum area’ and can be called ‘narrow bazaar’. We know that Chandigarh is a beautiful, well planed and well organized city. But only in Chandigarh, 146 persons died and 440 got injured in road accidents in 2008. It seems that there a very little value of human life and even the government officials have ceased to thing about taking steps to solve this problem of increasing number of road accidents. Every young man feels the need of scooter or motorcycle. Although they don’t have the ability and license, they drive the vehicle at a very fast speed. These youngsters use their vehicles as toys and don’t worry about the danger to their and other’s life posed by their rash driving. Narrow and unrepeated roads increase the numbers of accidents in cities and towns. We can see that most of India’s municipal counsels are callous towards road accidents due to lack of funds. We can see uncovered sewerage main holes and big holes in the roads. Political leaders also contribute to road accidents. When a politician passed from somewhere the roads of that area are closed to create safe passage prior to many hours. Because of this safe passage creation, general public and transport face many problems because of traffic jam. Most of the Car, truck and other vehicle drivers do not have obtained the driving licenses through a proper process. They give some extra money to the commission agents and obtain the driving license without any driving test. These drivers [...]

Rituals and Customs We consciously or unconsciously follow or perform many customs and rituals during the course of our life. We found ourselves thoroughly involved in these customs. These customs start from our birth and remain with ourselves throughout whole of our life. Even most of them are performed after one’s death by his coming generations. How these rituals and customs evolved, what is their historical backgrounds, is the subject matter of social, cultural and psychological studies. For comprehensive understanding of these rituals and customs we can divide them into various parts according to the stages of human development. At one hand we can talk to anyone in any corner of this world with the help of computer and internet, we can get the operations done by robots, and have even started to travel in the space but on the other hand we perform many rituals and customs that have originated from the primitive stages of human development. It is the dark side of our ‘advanced mind’. We did many inventions for the betterment of human race but paid no attention to our primitive and savage rituals and followed them like a ‘blindfolded horse’. These rituals require being: scientifically analyzed and altered according to the modern times for the betterment and easiness of human race. Attempts Sometimes we feel these rituals are useless and a burden on our psychic, financial and social life. But we can not dare to unite and fight against these useless customs and change them according to the modern times. We don’t even know what feelings and fears are keeping our mouths shut against these burdensome customs. It does not mean that humans never tried to change these suppressive rituals and customs. But most of the attempts were done on individual basis and very few of them could turn into mass movements. Our saints, seers and intellectuals fought against classism (cast system, social discrimination), human sacrifice, sati pratha (an Indian ritual according to which wife of dead person is burnt alive with her husband) etc. They succeeded a lot to change or stop these rituals and customs but failed to totally ‘kill these viruses’. Indian society is still divided on the basis of tribes, races and casts. We have failed to break these shackles which are rusting our minds. New Rituals Media could play a leading role to change or stop these useless, burdensome and unproductive [...]

Philosophy According to philosophy and various religions this world can be divided into two parts: Physical (materialistic) world and Spiritual world. There is not any boundary or line drawn which separates these worlds from each other. It is a matter of understanding. Physical world’s boundaries are drawn by human senses. Means what we see, listen, feel, smell or taste with our five senses is part of physical world. Thus it becomes clear that senses of human body draw a boundary line between physical and spiritual worlds. But we have just read about the boundaries of physical world. It ends where the power of senses ends. Let us come to the definition of spiritual world: spiritual world has no boundaries because boundaries are drawn by senses but it is beyond human senses. Where the power of senses to see, listen, taste, feel and smell ends, the spiritual world starts. When one losses his wits, he enters into the spiritual world. We can prove it with one example. Nobody knows what color of love is, how it looks, what its size is, how it tastes, what its sound is and how it smells etc. Love can not be seen, listened, tasted, smelt or felt with five senses of human body but people still crave for it. Thus it is evident that five senses of human body become powerless in the spiritual world. Why is happens? The answer is very simple. Human body is the part of physical world, merely a part. But on the other hand, spirit is the part of spiritual world. Some times spirit is the master of spiritual world and some times it is the mastered but ‘rank’ is not matter of concern in the spiritual world. But people, mostly prefer to be mastered in the spiritual world. With this example it will become clear. Lovers prefer to ‘fall in love’. Every one wants to ‘be loved’. If a lover says to his beloved ‘I have fallen in love with you’, instead of saying ‘I love you’ then the words of ‘fallen lover’ will put more effect on the beloved as compared to the words of the other one. Now question arises why it happens. Again the answer is very simple: everyone ‘wants to be loves’ or ‘mastered’. Love is trade of spirits and spirits prefer to be mastered. ‘Fallen lover’ preferred to be mastered means his spirit craves [...]