Vimarsh

Is there a politician around, any politician apart from Arvind Kejriwal, who sees corruption as an election issue? I am not counting Anna. He is a social worker and, in many ways, our conscience. But as he has himself pointed out, he is not part of the political choices on offer. He is more like a moral compass. So even though we go on and on about corruption and we call UPA the most corrupt government ever, we have already conceded months ahead of the elections that corruption is not an issue worth voting on. The current rhetoric makes this obvious. Narendra Modi is not offering a corruptionfree government. He is promising development. Rahul Gandhi is not offering to clean up his Aegean stables. He is promising, instead, inclusiveness, whatever that means. The BJP is promising change. The Congress promises continuity. The NDA promises you Hindu nationalism. The UPA promises you secularism. The Congress makes Hindu nationalism sound like a fascist slogan, an excuse fo...

Unit 1: Who is a Contributor? … Values + Effectiveness What is Personality? In order to find out a contributor, we need to concentrate on certain important traits of personality. There are certain important characteristics that we can look into to understand the concept of Contributor. -           Magnetism, irrespective of other characteristics. -           Taking the responsibility of one’s activities, even if they are utter failures. -           To understand the major ideas expressed by the great thinkers, philosophers, activists, scientists, etc. -           To understand their personal life and compare it with the ideas they have expressed. According to Vivekanand, the ideal of education is to develop the inner being of man-kind, but we are concentrating more on the outer-image ...