Cry and cry again, my love My valley has withered in wilderness Happy days have fallen into the darkness of night Here down in my valley grass wags its smile in gray delight And over there in those distant horizons of the other land On the other side of the river the days are happier […]
Problems of Communism
That was like Holy Roman Empire – metaphorically neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire in essence. And there was no Gibbon to tell the world the truth of the rise and fall of Soviet Empire. The Soviet Empire collapsed under its burdens of unholy catastrophes that had inflicted the communistic system since it very inception […]
Can a Human Heart be created?
It may be too early to pronounce a verdict on the above question, but, the possibility of at least growing a human heart to replace or repair the damaged ones may be possible, over a period of time, if not in the near future. This is due to the reported breakthrough in creating […]
Human Cloning and Its Social Impacts
Can anybody imagine himself as a cloned man, a nameless and faceless identity having no parental credential in this world? It is very simple that such a peripheral identity will never be commensurable with the existing societal norms and sentiments. Human life is such that it always bears some parental and communal identity to assert […]
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan – The Non Violent Giant
n July 1988, one sunny evening I went over to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi during visiting hours to visit a friend’s father who was admitted there. It was the visiting hours and normally there was no security; but on this particular occasion, there were some policemen on duty guiding the […]
Gateway to rural development
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is not only an integral component of modern civilisation but also a power that helps our dreams come true. Remarkable improvement in ICT has influenced a broad spectrum of human activities and inspired revolutionary changes in socio-economic arena. Many countries have embarked on a new era of economic development by […]