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SOCIAL RELEVANCE AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
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Men have failed; let Woken take over.
Economic Growth without Distributive Justice is bound to breed Violence.
Indian Society at the crossroads.
The new emerging woman-power: the ground realities.
When money speaks, the truth is silent.
Restricting of Indian education system.
Literacy is growing very fast but there is no corresponding growth in education.
Greater political power alone will not improve women's plight.
Women's empowerment: Challenges and prospects.
Value-based science and education.
Irrelevance of the classroom.
Empowerment alone cannot help our women.
Modern Technological Education and human values.
Whither Women's Emancipation?
Globalization and its Impact on Indian Culture.
Justice must reach the poor.
What is real education?
Women's Reservation Bill would Usher in Empowerment for Women in India.
"Education for All" Campaign in India: Myth or Reality.
Attitude makes habit, habit makes character and character makes a man.
Independent thinking should be encouraged right from the childhood.
Is an egalitarian society possible by educating the masses?
"The focus of health care is increasingly getting skewed towards the 'haves' of our society."
Preparedness of our society for India's global leadership role.
Does Indian cinema shape our popular culture or merely reflect it?
Credit-based higher education system-status, opportunities and challenges.
Managing work and home – is the Indian Working women getting a fair deal?
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) alongwith GDH (Gross Domestic Happiness) would be the right
indices for judging the well being of a country.
2014 Is string operation an invasion on privacy?
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PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALISM, ABSTRACT AND VALUE-LADEN
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My vision of India in 2001 A.D.
"He who Reigns within himself and Rules his Passion, Desires and Fears, is more than a King."
Compassion if the Basis of All Morality.
Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old age a regret.
Modernization and Westernization are not identical concepts.
A useless life is an early death.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
New cults and Godmen: a threat to traditional religions.
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Truth is lived, not taught.
True religion cannot be misused.
The modern doctor and his patients.
The composite culture of India.
Women is God's best creation.
The youth culture today.
Mass media and cultural invasion.
Why should we be proud of being Indians?
Indian culture today: a myth or a reality?
Modernism and our traditional socio-ethical values.
My vision of an ideal world order.
The pursuit of excellence.
Search for Truth can only be a spiritual problem.
If youth knew, if age could.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
As civilization advances culture declines.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Spirituality and Scientific temper.
The hand that rocks the cradle.
If women ruled the world.
Discipline means success, anarchy means ruin.
Geography may remains the same; history need not.
Be the change you want to see in others – Gandhiji.
With Greater Power comes greater responsibility.
Is the growing level of competition good for the youth?
Are the standardized tests good measure of academic ability or progress?
Words are sharper than the two-edged sword.
INDIAN POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
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The Challenge before a Civil Servant Today.
Politics, Business and Bureaucracy – a fatal triangle.
Politics without ethics is a disaster.
Whither Indian democracy?
The V.I.P. cult is a bane of Indian democracy.
Need for transparency in public administration.
What we have not learnt during fifty years of Independence.
The misinterpretation and misuse of freedom in India.
Reservations, politics and empowerment.
What have we gained from our democratic set-up?
How far has democracy in India delivered the goods?
How should a civil servant conduct himself?
Judicial Activism and Indian Democracy.
Evaluation of Panchayati Raj Systems in India from the point of view of eradication of poverty to
power to people.
2007 Is autonomy the best answer to combat balkanization?
2008 Role of the Media in good governance.
2008 National identity and patriotism.
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2009 Are we a 'soft' state?
2009 'Globalism' vs. 'Nationalism'.
2011 Creation of smaller states and the consequent administrative, economic and developmental
implications.
2012 In the context of Gandhiji's views on the matter, explore, on an evolutionary scale, the terms
'Swandhinata', 'Swaraj' and 'Dharmarajya'. Critically comment on their contemporary relevance to
Indian democracy.
2014 Was it the policy paralysis or the paralysis of implementation which slowed the growth of our
country?
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS AND INTEGRATION
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The language problem in India: Its past, present and prospects.
The country's need for a better disaster management system.
Privatization of Higher Education in India.
Responsibility of media in a democracy.
Water Resources should be under the control of the central government.
Food security for sustainable national development.
Fifty golds in Olympics: can this be a reality for India?
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
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The emerging Global Order, Political and Economic.
Multinational Corporations saviours or saboteurs.
Restructuring of the UNO to reflect present realities.
Urbanization is a blessing in disguise.
The world of the twenty-first century.
Resource management in the Indian context.
The implications of globalization for India.
The Masks of New Imperialism.
India's Role in Promoting ASEAN Co-operation.
Terrorism and world peace.
Importance of Indo-US Nuclear Agreement
"Good fences make good neighbours."
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED ETHICAL ISSUES
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Ecological considerations need not hamper development.
Computer: The Harbinger of a Silent Revolution.
The cyber world: its charms and challenges.
The march of science and the erosion of human values.
The Lure of Space.
Increasing Computerization Would lead to the Creation of a Dehumanized Society.
How has satellite television brought about cultural change in the Indian mindset?
In the Indian context, both human intelligence and technical intelligence are crucial in combating
terrorism.
2012 Science and Mysticism: Are they compatabile?
2013 Science and Technology is the panacea for the growth and security of the Nation.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PHILOSOPHY
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Globalization Would Finish Small-Scale Industries in India.
Protection of Ecology and Environment is Essential for Sustained Economic Development.
BPO boom in India.
Special Economic Zones: Boon or Bane
Urbanization and its hazards.
Are our traditional handicrafts doomed to a slow death?
Should a moratorium be imposed on all fresh mining in tribal areas of the country?
From traditional Indian philanthropy to the Gates-Buffett model – a natural progression or a
paradigm shift.
2012 Is the criticism that the 'Public-Private-Partnership' (PPP) model for development more of a bane
in the Indian context justified?
2014 Tourism: Can this be the next big thing for India?
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