Monthly Archives: March 2014
1. Development of Higher Education in India & China:A Comparative Perspective
Dr Ketan Govekar
Historical Background: India and China are two most populous nations of the world. Both are developing nations on a fast growth trajectory. However, both the nations face a daunting task of educating their rapidly growing populations. Education of the citizens is vital since it determines the level of progress and development and prosperity of the two nations. And it is not just the provision of the basic or elementary education that determines the trajectory of national growth but the level and extent of higher education determines the development of the full potential of the populace. But just as basic education was a late comer to these two countries, the arrival of higher education too has been quite recent in comparison to the western world.
2. Problems and Prospects of Indian Democracy: AnAnalysis of working for designing processes of change
Vivek Dhupdale
Abstract “Democracy is a government of the people, for the people, and by the people.” – Abraham Lincoln Democracy means rule by the people to ensure that every citizen takes part in the decision making process either directly or indirectly through elected representatives. India is the largest democracy in the world. In the last more than 6 decades it has worked successfully well to some extent. But in modern India it has to face many challenges that need to be tackled in order to ensure true democracy. These challenges may include: social and economic inequalities, poverty and unemployment, Illiteracy and ignorance, casteism, communalism, population explosion, regionalism, corruption and terrorism, etc. India needs to develop new proposals to reform democracy. Law plays important role in political reformation and may help to prevent wrong practices and encourage good ones. But mere legal changes alone do not help as the changes in laws may sometimes prove counterproductive and may result into negative impact on society. Therefore, the best laws empower people to carry out democratic reforms. The Right to Information Act is the best example that serves as a watchdog against abuse of democratic principles. The challenges to the democracy may be tackled by way of movements of activist or by the politically conscious citizens. Some of the measures that can be taken to sustain a true parliamentarian democracy in India include: achieving 100% literacy; educating the masses about democratic rights; ensuring better protection of fundamental rights, and to ensure freedom of press, etc. In this paper, the author has attempted to study and analyse the existing democratic setup in India and suggest necessary reforms in order to ensure a sustainable democracy in India.
3. Humanism In The Novels Of Mulk Raj Anand
Dr. S. B. Bijawe
Introduction: Mulk Raj Anand is known as a novelist and short-story writer. He occupies a prominent position in the world of Indian English Literature. But Anand is multifaceted personality: he is poet and essayist, a professor and educationalist, a pacifist and social worker, an art critic and a critic of music, sculpture, dance and drama. What lends light to all these facets is his inalienable trust in man and his deep love for him, in a word, his humanism which inspires and informs all that he writes and does. In fact, Anand’s philosophy of humanism is of such pivotal significance in the entire corpus of his writings that one of the most pertinent ways of viewing, his fiction is from this angle of his humanist philosophy “Humanity is not the highest Godhead: God is more than humanity but in humanity too we have to find and serve him”.
4. Existentialist vision in Anita Desai’s ‘Voices in the city’
Prof. Rahul P. Ghuge
Abstract :Anita Desai is unquestionably one of the celebrated Indian English writers. The characters in the novels of Anita Desai are the representatives of self identification. Her major characters are tormented by their fears and phobias as they feel circumscribed by their frightening, conditions of their existence. Her novel ‘Voices in the city’ is existential in character, for it explores the inward subjectivity of its main characters. She has given an existential dimension to the three most vital human predicaments anguish alienation and despair. She adds a new dimension to the genre of Indian fiction in English by probing the unquestionable existentialism concern of her protagonist.