The problem of terrorism in India or The curse of terrorism

          THE PROBLEM OF TERRORISM IN INDIA

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       THE CURSE OF TERRORISM

Terrorism means ‘to use terror-inspiring methods by terrorists to force a government or a community to make them agree to fulfill their demand.’  When a group of persons want to have an independent state, they attack the established government with arms and ammunition. Such persons are called terrorists. They disturb the peace of the state and the people. They kill innocent persons and peace-loving community and thus create terror in the hearts of people. Now-a-days terrorism has become a perennial problem for many countries of the world. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Serbia, Uzbekistan etc., are some of the countries, that are suffering from this problem. There are some countries of the world that prepare terrorists. They give them training in arms and other necessary things for their training and living. Then they send them to their neighboring countries only to create trouble there.

     During the British rule, a group of young persons, inspired by patriotic feelings killed many English men, who oppressed our countrymen. These patriotic young men were called terrorists by the British government in India. But for Indians those patriotic youngmen were freedom-fighters. They are called martyrs and are remembered with great respect by the Indians. But the terrorism of today is quite different. It is against humanity. The terrorists of today are killing innocent persons for their selfish aim. Minor success of some evil persons in the achievements of their aims inspires others to follow it.

        In India, terrorism has prevailed in North-eastern states in Nagaland, Mizoram, Assam and Tripura. In Jammu and Kashmir and some times inPunjab, Pakistan has been creating a great trouble and terror. This country has been sending terrorists into our country for many years. It has been supporting them with arms and ammunitions, money and training. The aim of this country is to annex Jammu and Kashmir through creating terror in our country. Thousands of lives of peace-loving people are killed. So it is the duty of every government to crush terrorism with an iron hand. An international conference should be held to deal with this problem of terror under the sponsorship of the United Nations. Peace and prosperity can prevail if terrorism is ended..

       FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY IN INDIA

:FOR FORM OF GOVERNMENT LET FOOLS CONTEST

WHAT IS BEST ADMINISTERED IS BEST:

           Ours is a parliamentary democracy. India is the largest democracy of the world. The architects of the constitution of India found this form suitable for the country. People elect their representatives. The party which wins the majority forms the government at the centre. The Prime Minister and the cabinet rule in the name of the majority and their policies reflect the wishes of the people. Different political parties may get majority in different states to form their own governments.

               Democracy is based on a philosophy which recognises the value of the individual. It allows individuality to develop on the basis of certain fundamental rights sanctioned by the constitution or the accepted tradition of the country.

               Though majority of voters are illiterate and poor, yet they have firm faith in democracy. They turn out on the election day in a larger percentage than anywhere else in the world to choose a government. They make a real holiday of it. When Mrs. Indira Gandhi imposed internal emergency, people threw out her regime in the general election of 1977. People again got fed up with the infighting of the Jana ta Party leaders. People taught them a lesson in the mid-term poll of 1980. India is wedded to democracy. Hence the future of democracy is safe in India. The following factors are uncalled for democracy. They need to be corrected for the smooth running of democracy in India.

1.The ugliest feature of Indian democracy are the criminalisation and corruption by the politicians.

2.Another evil feature is the grip of the 5% fundamentalists over the 95% people in India.

3.Problem of decorum in the house: A lot of precious time is wasted in adjournments and brawls. Opposition leaders sometimes behave foolishly. They snatch papers from the hand of the speaker. They rock the proceedings and gather in the well of the house. Various scenes of violence in legislatures were seen such as mikes being hurled as missiles in Lucknow and MLA’s clothes being torn off in Chennai.

Our former president Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy has voiced his concern over the often shameful functioning of the legislators. Uproarious scenes and pandemonium in the houses of Assemblies and Parliament create unsavoury  atmosphere.

             Drastic changes in electoral system are needed so that polities should be entrusted in responsible hands. The laws for maintaining decorum in the house must be made to avoid unparliamentary atmosphere.

THE AILING PLANET: THE GREEN MOVEMENT'S ROLE

                          The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role………

 One cannot recall any movement in world history which has gripped the imagination of the entire human race so completely and so rapidly as the Green Movement which started nearly twenty-five year ago. In 1972 the World’s first nationwide Green party was founded in New Zealand. Since Then, the movement has not looked back.

          We have shifted------one hopes, irrevocably---from the mechanistic view to a holistic and ecological view of the world. It is a shift in human perceptions as revolutionary  as that introduced by Copernicus who taught mankind in the sixteenth century that the earth and the other planets revolved round the sun. For the first time in human history, there is a growing worldwide consciousness that the earth itself is a living organism- an enormous being of which we are parts. It has its own metabolic needs and vital processes which need to be respected and preserved.

         The earth’s vital signs reveal a patient in declining health. We have begun to realize our ethical obligations to be good stewards of the planet and responsible trustees of the legacy to future  generations. The concept of sustainable development was popularized in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development. In its report it defined the idea as “Development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”, i.e., without stripping the natural world of resources future generations would need.

               In the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, there is a cage where the notice reads, ‘The world’s most dangerous animal’. Inside the cage there is no animal but a mirror where you see yourself. Thanks to the efforts of a number of agencies in different countries, a new awareness has how now dawned upon the most dangerous animal in the world. He has realized the wisdom of shifting from a system based on domination to one based on partnership.

          Scientists have catalogued about 1.4 million living species with which mankind shares the earth Estimates vary widely as regards the still-uncatalogued living species-biologists reckon that about three to a hundred million other living species still languish unnamed in ignominious darkness. One of the early international commission which dealt, inter alia, with the question of ecology and environment was the Brandt Commission which had a distinguished Indian as one of its members---Mr. L.K. Jha. The first Brandt report raised the question-------‘’Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing environment?”

          Mr. Lester R. Brown in his thoughtful book, The Global economic Prospect, points out that the earth’s principal biological systems are four------fisheries, forests, grasslands, and croplands- and they form the foundation of the global economic system. In addition to supplying our food, these four systems provide virtually all the raw materials for industry except minerals and petroleum-derived synthetics. In large areas of the world, human claims on these systems are reaching an unsustainable level, a point where their productivity is being impaired. When this happens, fisheries collapse, forests disappear, grasslands are converted into barren wastelands, and croplands deteriorate. In a protein-conscious and protein-hungry world, over-fishing is common every day. In poor countries local forests and being decimated in order to procure firewood for cooking. In some places, firewood has become so expensive that ‘’what goes under the pot now costs more than what goes inside it’’. Since the tropical forest is, in the words of Dr. Myers, ‘’The powerhouse of evolution”, several species of life face extinction as a result of its destruction.

   It has been well said that forests precede mankind; deserts follow. The world’s ancient patrimony of tropical forests is now eroding at the rate of forty to fifty million acres a year, and the growing use of dung for burning deprives the soil of an important natural fertilizer. The World Band estimates that a five-fold increase in the rate of forest planting is needed to cope with the expected fuel wood demand in the year 2000.