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a poem from a school book

कक्षा 11वीं 12वीं की हिंदी व अंग्रेजी की पाठ्य पुस्तकों में बहुत सारी कहानियां हैं जिनका मतलब शायद कक्षा में पढ़ते समय ना समझ आए परंतु उन किताबों में लिखी हर एक कहानी का हर वाक्य का सार हमें तजुर्बे मिलने पर ही समझ आता है। समाज में बनी दीवारों को शायद हम कक्षाओं में बैठकर और पन्नों पर पढ़कर नहीं समझ सकते, वास्तविक तौर पर उनकी गहराइयों को और ऊंच-नीच के इन तराजू को समझने के लिए हमें जमीनी स्तर पर उतारकर अवलोकन करना होगा।  कक्षा 12वीं की अंग्रेजी की पाठ्यपुस्तक 'Flamingo' में एक कविता को डाला गया है जिसके रचयिता Stephen Spender है। इस कविता का शीर्षक एक झोपड़पट्टी में प्राथमिक विद्यालय की कक्षा के नाम पर ही रखा गया है (An Elementary school Classroom in a Slum)। कविता बेहद छोटी है किंतु इसके शब्द हमें सोचने पर मजबूर कर देते हैं।  इसकी शुरुआत इस प्रकार है कि किस तरह झुग्गी झोपड़ियों में रहने वाले बच्चों को वो सब पढ़ाया जाता है जो उनके लिए कुछ मायने नहीं। भूख और दरिद्रता के शिकंजे में वे इस प्रकार जकड़े जा चुके हैं कि उन्हें खुद का वजूद महसूस नहीं होता। कवि ने जिस प्रकार उन बच्चों क...

क्या यौन शिक्षा एक नैतिक शिक्षा नहीं?

'विश्व गुरु भारत', हमारे देश भारत को यह संबोधन आपने बचपन से सुना होगा। प्रायः यह संबोधन तीन शब्दों से मिलकर बना है, 'विश्व' यानी पूरा संसार, 'गुरु' यानी शिक्षा देने वाला व तीसरा शब्द हमारे देश का नाम। इस प्रकार से यह दर्शाता है कि भारत, वह देश जो पूरी दुनिया को ज्ञान दे। यह ज्ञान न केवल किताबी हो, साथ ही साथ में व्यवहारिक व सैद्धांतिक भी हो।  आपके मन में प्रश्न आया होगा कि यह सैद्धांतिक ज्ञान क्या होता है? बड़ो का आदर करना, प्रकृति की देखभाल करना, जानवरों की रक्षा करना आदि ही सैद्धांतिक ज्ञान है, जिसको नैतिक शिक्षा भी कहा जाता है। नैतिक शिक्षा इसलिए दी जाती है ताकि समाज में अच्छे व सकारात्मक कर्मों को प्रोत्साहित किया जा सके, किंतु भारत के सबसे बड़े राज्य राजस्थान मैं बढ़ते रेप के मामले, तो कुछ और ही बयां कर रहे हैं। 2020 में हुई एक रिपोर्ट बताती है कि राजस्थान इस सूची में पहले पायदान पर आ गया है। सवाल यह है कि इस सब के लिए किस को सजा दी जाए, दोषियों को या फिर उन्हें जो ऐसे कुकर्म करने के लिए प्रोत्साहन देते है? नैतिक शिक्षा हमें सिखाती है कि समाज में कैसे एक अच...

Is Judicial Activism is transforming into Judicial Governance?

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The Indian democracy is based on its three pillars that are Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The separation of powers is an essential element of the Constitution. Each of them has their own significance to act in the welfare of the commons. From the very first, at the time of independence, the initial idea of making India the biggest democracy took its path with these pillars. Tho, legislature performs an important role to govern the nation, but not only the Legislature, Judiciary also took hands to govern the nation and this can be seen by last few decades. How? Let’s discuss on such issues. Judicial Activism Indian Judiciary not only performs its function in solving disputes and to passing judgments, it also has some special role to strengthen the democracy. Judicial Activism is the term used to better define this importance. It determines the active participation of the courts whenever the Executive and Legislative bodies fail in the function. Judiciary took the charges...

A Nano Time to be Charged!

  “Roti, Kapada Aur Makaan” (food, clothes and shelter), the basic principles of a happy life decades ago, but as a river flows, it brings new sediments on its bank. With the advancement of time, the definition of a happy life also changing.   Technological advancement brought a lot of changes in the daily routine of the commons. Electricity, proper water supply, education, jobs etc. are major requirements of the present scenario. Rise in population is also narrowing the resources, but it increasing the production capacity. The working capacity is increasing with the technology and the recent innovations in the field of technology. In previous centuries, where the people use to work in fields 4 to 5 hours a day, whereas, in today’s module the working hours going upwards to 10 to 12 hours because the demands and requirement is increasing frequently. Now, the nap time has also come down from 9 hours to 5-6 hours. It not only affects the efficiency but also act as ill effect ...

Understanding Nature and Bruises of the Indian Parliament

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  “Political Foundation of India lies upon its initial structure that is the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary.” Since the childhood, we use to study that without their equal participation, a building of democracy can’t be imagined. Each of them performs a significant role, and puts the ‘checks and balances’ on the zenith powers of other. ‘As the role of Executive is to run the state and to execute the proceedings, designed by the Legislative body, The work of Judiciary is to restrict those laws and regulation (drafted by Legislature) and put them within the boundaries of the Constitution’, this is the summaries work holdings of the particular. Turning my point towards the politics, the only thing which comes in mind by recognizing the term politics is the Parliament and the Government. Parliament is a body which comes under the shadow of Legislature, as its work is to function upon the law making, and deciding the future of the Country in a legal way. Government is ...

King of the Nation AMBANI

  What if Ambani   becomes the ‘King of the Nation’   “India is the biggest democracy in the world.” A nation like India consumes a large amount of food grain per day, as we can see the demographic structure of the country is so large. This huge population of India is not only performing a major role in food consumption but also plays a vital role to build up the nation through the way of democracy. Democracy is the basic need upon such a huge and varied population, but what will be the image of the India if a business tycoon becomes the monarch of such a ‘Great Nation.’ If we talk about the biggest business man of the country, we found to note that in present, Mukesh Ambani is the on the top of the list. As we know, he performs a specific role in the backbone of the economy. Most of the daily essential commodities were being provided by him like electricity, LPG etc. as the part of his business. Although, in 2016, he launched JIO sim providing people free acces...