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ONLY GROWTH AND NO DEVELOPMENT Fake Panacea:The Indian Way “Child is the father Of the Man”,this famous quote said by one of greatest personality of the world may arise a volley of questions in one’s mind that what does it exactly means but in true sense it lies with in itself a much deeper and intrinsic meaning. Not only this quote implies the importance of children but every successful and developed nation of the world identified and seriously visualized upon conserving such untapped resource ie its children who are the future commanders of a nation. But with India,the largest democrat and second largest country in terms of China and soon ought to empower it in 2030,the horroundes stats like 49 infant deaths in one hour,96.4 deaths per 1000 live births for children under the age of five,25.6 deaths per 1000 live births regarding average child death and 40.7 deaths per 1000 live births in terms of neonatal mortality rate,alone in UP,the largest state of the country,population wise, c

SHACKLING EMOTIONS : Dilemma of a Lifetime. Clean ambience, hygenic enviornment, decent lifestyle; in broad sense a healthy approach is what every human desires. Even the fundamental rights formulated under the constitution guarantees right to life and liberty. But with the humans designated with the most degraded job of “MANUEL SCAVENGING”, one can easily envisage their pitiable condition. The shameful legacy of centuries which involves the innocent lives into a vicious circle of never ending humiliation, withering hopes and a constant fear of parents for their children to continue with the same menial job. The hated vocation of collecting human excreta from individual or community dry latrines with bare hands or with the help of brooms or tin plates. The dry latrines are still in use in large number in many parts of our country. According to a report there are around 96 lakhs dry latrines in use at present In 1976 Section 7a was introduced into the protection of of Civil Rights Ac

Unlike many others Sadhana has an alter-ego, just like her changed name “Sadhana”. At the age of eighteen, when traces of maturity knocks softly, Sadhana has already a full of it with day long responsibilities of her HIV positive mother ant two younger twin siblings. In the absence of her father, who has abandoned his family accusing his wife to be inflicted with some dreaded disease and also who escapes the test from the fear of being inflicted with the same, it is daily an uphill task for Sadhana to get a square meal for her family. The fear and stress of board exams have been replaced by fear of losing her mother and stressful hardships which she has to bear everyday. For the past one year her life has been topsy-turvy since her mother has been reported HIV positive. With no friends at school to talk, to share her tiffin, no friends at neighbourhood ready to play with her siblings, she faces this everyday animosity just because she has an HIV positive mother. Nobody even knows

The dictionary meaning of "ADULTERATION" means, "The process of making food or drink less pure by adding another substance to it". Adulteration implies basically in context of eatables, but what if it creeps into the deep rooted culture, ethics, traditions and social values of a nation. We eat food to satisfy our hunger. Adultered food harms our health. Same way social ethics, culture, values, traditions are the mainstream identity of a nation. A nation relies and depends on this basic factor for its true existence. Whenever there is an invasion of external factors the originality deteriorates and this deterioration reflects through the mindset of people. It leads to perverted approach in every arena of our society and results in inevitable despondency in every field. India got its independence through die hard and determined efforts shouldered by stalwarts of independence. Post independence too, founders of our independence made sure of retaining their originality