My Vision Of an Ideal World Order

My utopia is not different as Gandhiji had dreamt of for India about 8 decades ago, at that time we were not so globalised as we are today. We were bounded within country's frontiers. But, now we can't think our emancipation without indulging in other country's problems. So, my vision is not for only India but for whole world. Jawahar lal nehru had said on the eve of independent india on 15th august 1947 in the historic speech of ‘’tryst with destiny’’ that ‘’ Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world’’. So, in my utopian world, i can imagine an utopian India as well. World has entered into 21st century, and  one decade has also passed. World now facing with many novel  21st century challenges. My utopian world would be that world where we find every challenges under the feet.

Everyone in the world is entitled to get basic health facilities. In hinterland of not only India but for almost every country in the world people are facing the challenges of many fatal diseases. Those diseases are curable but due to lack of medical facilities they reluctantly  end their lives. My vision of Ideal world would be where we can provide basic health facilities to all and sundry because if the people are healthy in the world then we can excel in every arena of life.

Most of the problems arises due to destitution in the world. People are unable to get facilities and somewhere they are deprived of the basic amenities due to scarcity of money. Poverty at grass root level also breeding many social evils. My utopia would be free of destitution so that we can nip the evils in the bud. where we can't differentiate people as" rural" and "urban" in perspective of reach of facilities. In the book "Target 3 billion", APJ Abdul kalam' s vision of eradicating  poverty of 3 billion people out of 6 billion people in the whole world is also my dream. And my dream for whole world would be accomplished by implementation of the APJ Kalam Sir's Scheme of PURA ( providing urban amenities in rural areas). My utopia would be a poverty less world where everyone can fulfill their basic necessities without succumbed to financial crisis at individual level.

My utopia would be a place where everyone should have something to do accordance with their skill. Unemployment is now a global problem. It would be wrong to say that we have less jobs in the world, but reality is that we have not enough quality human resource to use them in making hunky dory world. People in the world are not unemployed but most of them are unemployable. We often encounter people holding technical degree vying for financial sector Jobs or for BPOs.  This omnishambles unemployment should redress through prudent mechanisms. My ambition to create ideal world order will accomplish by making people imbibe skills according to orientation of the job. My utopia in this regard would be a place where people can get benefitted themselves with various skills and get their work according to their skills and educational level.

Almost all over the world, we have child protection laws, but millions of children die every year due to various reasons like lack of health facilities, malnourishment, over exploitation by employing them in hazardous factories. Children who are considered as future of any country gave up their lives before they see the dawn of their real life. In my utopia there would be no child labour, no child exploitation, Every children under the age of 16 will be found in classrooms. I will make education free for all of them. I will create that type of education through which they can be able to generate exchequer for themselves. This will make them self-reliant from inception of school days, after that they have not to face any unemployment challenges, which today most of the children after elementary education generally face. So, my utopian world would be a place where children will not only get bookish knowledge but they will also get vocational training as an integral part of school education.

It's a time to put a cap on male domination over female. In developed countries we rarely see such disparities on the basis of gender, but the majority of the countries , which are still developing have radical and orthodox view regarding women. Women violence and atrocities on women especially in countryside are every day happenings. There women are facing many kind of violence, Criminal violence- rape, abduction, murder, and domestic Violence like dowry deaths, wife battering, sexual abuse. Gender bias in the society is common, Boys in the family and even in society are given extra preferences over girls. Girls are treated as liability, this tendency in the society has arises due to sort of dowry system. So, instead of female infanticide, we have to eradicate dowry system. My utopia would be consist of those people who wholly reject all the atrocities done on the women. In my view consolidation of ideal world is not possible without equal participation of male and female.

Corruption in today's world has become the part and parcel of life. In my view corruption is making impact on the society by two means, first, Corruption in "whole sale" ( big scams) and second, Corruption in "retail" (corruption at basic level). Prolong corruption in "whole sale" ( big scams) is enough to ruin a country, but  Corruption in "retail" (corruption at basic level) is more devastating for common people because it affects directly their pockets. Common people suffer due to corruption in each and every stage of life. In my utopia, world will be so transparent that it would be difficult for anyone to make manipulation of a single penny. My utopia or vision of an ideal world is to have market like efficiency in public works. In my ideal world politicians will not get elected to make multiple scams but to establish an accountable government and as a protector of the interests of the common people and as a care taker of all its citizens. Probity will be enhanced to that level that we will not need any corruption perception index (CPI) and other corruption checking institutions.

The most disastrous problem which the world is facing today is Terrorism. Terrorism is a curse and terrorism in the name of religion is more devastating as it augment hatred among people of different faiths. Although terrorism is a gigantic problem but in my utopia, where solidarity will come together to eradicate any challenge we can make the world get rid of terrorism. There is handful of people who have created all ruckus in the world. To have control over them is cakewalk. My ideal world would be without any terror groups and without any terror incentive entity.

Now, every country is accumulated with contemporary war weapons and nuclear defence equipment. In This era, no country can be considered weak. Sophisticated war equipments have made everyone smart enough, a button has to press to destroy the whole world in a jiffy. In this regard my dream of an ideal world is somewhat similar to the Einstein's thought which he once described "the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! " ..We are living in a globalized world where country's frontiers doesn't make any sense. Now, whole world is like a family, so showing ultra-nationalism or chauvinism and to wage war and spreading violence is not the appropriate way. We have already seen the consequences of both world wars- World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945). It is almost impossible to make restitution of collateral damages. During second world war even Gandhiji wrote to Hitler, " my dear friend, please stop world war II from happening. Every country, whether she is victorious in the war but lose something in the war". So, my utopia would be a world like a single country and all present countries would work like states, which by any means will not possess any military power to overpower other states. in my dream world order each and every complicated issues would be resolved by sitting around the table, by debates and prudent considerations. By making whole world as a single country and all present countries as her associate states we will be able to put a cap on many global problems like burgeoning population, environmental issues, and this will create uniform distribution of resources in the world.

In my utopian world everyone will live with peace, harmony, probity will be at top both in individual level and institutional level. Everyone will have a shed for staying and bread for living along with all amenities which are sine qua non to lay good life. Everyone will be prosperous. World will witness a tranquility where people will completely renunciate the means of violence. Humanity will flourish in my ideal world and no one will be cynical, everyone will be treated alike regardless of their class, caste and religion. All kind of stereotype will cease to exist in my utopia. There is a basic rule of "successful" Mathematics that if we want to get the desired answer then at first we have to assume something. So, I am sure, my assumptions of an ideal world order will be a reality one day.

By:-Tanveer Ashraf

                               What is real education?

Education is regarded as the most important instrument for societal change. In Indian context Indian has been engaged in educational revolution from last two decades, it is clear from governments burgeoning concern to educate its citizens. Numerous schemes and policies like Sarva siksha abhiyan, Rajiv vidya mission, etc. are sponsored by the central government. In 2009, Right to Education ( RTE ) bill was passed in parliament. RTE is also being implemented in most of the cities and hinterland of the country Existing government is not only the first one to rise voice to educate Indians, but it was felt so, from the inception of British Raj in India. Gandhi Ji's view of education was very different from the status quo education system which prevails in India. His views on education was ''ethical education'' which can imbibe humanity and can make them aware. This type of education is called real education. Indians had suffered much on the hand of british due to lack of education and awareness, without which they were treated as barbarian. Even in India of today, although we are living in a democracy, but taste of democracy can't be realize until each and every citizen of India will be educated. The education which can make citizens realize for their entitlements is a real education for destitutes and underprivileged ones. Sense of real education can change its course by changing situations. There are myriad of answers for a particular question that is, what is real education?? Many people might say only getting higher degrees, being cognizant of worldly affairs and many of them might think real education is that which is potent to make huge amont of money. Todays generation see education only as an instrument to make money which can satisfy their materialistic mundane life. But the sense of real education is to make a man or a woman, a human being. A man without ethical, social and moral values can't be regarded as human being."Man is a social Animal" and man is social when he makes himself fit for the society and for that one has to pursue real education through which imbibing of ethics and all ingredients of human qualities take place.

purpose of education is sceptical. Lots of person have different ideas regarding this, but the gandhian views on education serves the real purpose of education. Mahatama gandhi said several decades ago " education for life, education through life, and education throughout life". But unfortunately today, we are witnessing that education has augmented hostility instead of euphoria, anxiety instead of serenity and so much of tensions. Because we never want to consider education for life, we always connect it to any materialistic things. Students of this generation do not want 'education through life', In phantasy of mammon, they want quick things of learning, and only those things which can propitiate their needs. For them there is no significance in gaining humanization based education. Dehumanizing and alienating aspects of education come into light because education is not 'throughout life'. Gandhi ji's concept of education is basic education which can lay foundation of life and it can be regarded as real education also. The motive of education is to make people realize what is good and what is bad, and after cognizant of good things, endeavour to implement and inculcate those good values. But the type of education which is being imparted today is not real education. people are getting more and more educated but they are also becoming more and more vindictive, graphs of crime is going up, the purpose of education was never to make Bombs and to destroy the humanity. Lack of real education is dragging them to accomplish these dehumanizing activities. Purpose of education is to make earth a better place for living and connect all and sundry with single string to live together as human beings. Real education teach us to follow Single religion "humanity" which is first chapter of all religions, not crusades in the names of religions.

In this cyberage, people are getting more technical and there is unprecedented enhancement of intellectuality among them. But these all intellectuality is connected with materialistic world which give birth to many tensions. Tension between materialistic and spirituality or science and religion. Education whose purpose is to make realize of good things is now engaged in debates, what is right and what is wrong? Spirituality is rated as second over science. Over domination of science and technology. It is not over domination of science and technology, but it is probably the misinterpretation of science and technology that is the underlying cause of much tensions. Although science is mandatory to make rational thinking about any issue but we must not mess up science with de facto divinity and universal values of ethics.

In today's world we lack real education even in educated persons. Real education is hard to find in books. A person who is regarded illiterate by the world might be the champion of real education and an educated one might have zero level of real education. an instance of two real brothers can make us realize the meaning of real education more candidly. there are two brothers , one is illiterate and other is highly educated. when someone in their vicinity met with a fatal accident. Illiterate brother will ran away for help due to sort of reflex action. But the educated brother will avoid the situation as he doesn't want to indulge in problems. he will even try to prevent his illiterate brother from going for help. probably he will wait for the next day to send condolence message to the family of the victim, if he is much affluent then he probably will send condolence message to the family of the victim through news paper. In this, who will be regarded as more educated when u take into account the real purpose of education??

Real education which is still an utopia for current generation can be achieved when we will follow Gandhian view of education. Real education is based on those values which guarantee the welfare of all people rather than welfare of few sections and deprivation of others. Education must be based on the laws of humane and human experience. "what book can be there than the book of humanity". Real meaning of education or real education is that which augment brotherhood, fraternity, peace , non- violence and truth.

By:- Tanveer Ashraf

Is an egalitarian society possible by educating the masses??

Indian society in itself is a composite society .It is concoction of various kind of diverse groups. Among all the countries of the world, India has unique culture and cultural heritage. The concept of egalitarian society goes back to early vedic period . In early vedic period everyone was equal, there was no class based society. Everyone was in full autonomy. But in later vedic period ‘Chaturasharam’ system and varana system began to operate in Indian society, and since then we have been seeing the consequences of social evils and disparities on the basis of caste, creed, race and sometimes religion as well. Disparity among the religions, then disparity, prejudice, bias within the religion, among different caste. This ‘varana vayvastha’’ in early days played a decisive role in perpetuating caste based professions. Brahmanas were only eligible for accumulation of knowledge, Kshatriya could rule over them but were disqualified to get education. Shudras had very pathetic condition, they had to serve all the three above classes of society. But, today in Indian society we have Brahmanas, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and sudra, but they don’t have to comply by those caste based professions. Now, Indian society has come up above all disparities on the basis of caste, religion, linguistic bonds , earlier they were trapped in these labyrinths. These all became possible because education has played a splendid role as an emancipator for underprivileged ones. Although it is not enough for Indian society, still we have to resuscitate it. To make it egalitarian society education is prerequisite , besides this we need many other ingredients also.

Education is not less than enlightenment for those who have been living in darkness of social complexities. Common education for all and sundry can create a rational and uniform impact on all, and uniformity in the society is psyche of egalitarian society. Egalitarianism only can be realize when people are educated. School is consider as a “temple of education” is in itself a benign instance of classless and egalitarian society where we can find a son of scavenger, son of businessmen and son of officers on the same benches of class and also in the same dress. The right to life and dignity of an individual can not be assured unless it is accompanied by the right to education. At this juncture, proper implementation of RTE( Right to Education) can make drastic change in the society as far as egalitarianism is concern. 25% seats are already reserved for the poors and destitutes in private schools, this can provide extra impetus in creating egalitarian values among students, consequently in the whole society. This pattern of education which is prevailing in India can produce hipsters, who can make a modern India without any specific and privileged social strata. Only stipulation with education system is, it must render education which can help them out in “mental liberty’ and can help them in establishing egalitarian values.

The preamble of Indian constitution explicit all the egalitarian values. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Which are not separate items is a trinity. To divorce one from other is to defeat the very purpose of democracy. Detrimental problems through which India is passing are ‘Citizens are not aware of their rights, any law which is legislated in the parliament has subtle impact on their life. Education is the only way to make them aware and cognizant of their rights, after that they can realize the real taste of trinity – Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity. Liberty of social, political and economical and equality in all sphere of life. to make sense of egalitarian society, it is must to take into account the economic liberty more than any other liberties because for an empty stomach, adult franchise has no meaning. Economic prosperity can be achieve by educating the masses. Along with moral enhancement, education is also a cogent determiner of economic status. More educated people in society means people are more prosperous. Education paves the novel dawn, where economic independent and economically strong means high chances to defeat all evils in the society and annulment of strata based society.

For social stability people must work for one another. In this regard Karl Marks’s dream of classless society can be realize by giving them equal dignity and respect. Having labourers in the society is mandatory for infrastructural development, doctors are necessary for making society healthy, engineers to develop technical tools so that we can excel in technology. Everyone's work is based on the individual hard work. when we bring all these under consideration then we find society is somewhat based on individual aspiration. So, providing all and sundry same facilities is a nightmare. Even in the preamble of constitution, although it states EQUALITY for all but literally it means ''Equality among equals''. But elementary education for all can nullify differences which sometimes becomes the cause of discrimination. Rudimentary knowledge for laborers can help them in safeguard their rights, they can claim their entitlements if they will be aware of it. Proprietors must have magnanimity towards laborers, owner should be benevolent and to inculcate all these, they must have rational mindset along with ethical based education. Thoughts of Rousseau, Lenin and in Indian context thoughts of Bhimrao Ambedkar, M.N. Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru and mahatma gandhi are based on the equality for all and to provide the dignity to all people, whosoever is adding something to society by their work. Everyone's work in the society should be praiseworthy and applaudable. So, people should get dignity if they are accomplishing their obligation with probity. 

Complex countries like India, education can bind them all in single thread. Pragmatically,its complexities can be realized in each and every arena. For instance, we can see number of languages in 100 rupee note and we find 15 different languages, means 15 different linguistic groups or distinct classes. Although India has myriads of languages with zillion of people. In economic perspective, there are groups of rich and poor, rural and urban, and land owner and day laborers. Socio-cultural factors like gender divide. Divisions based on religion and caste, linguistic based divisions. These  numerous divisions can't be mingle at the drop of a hate. Education can prove as potent instrument for socialization process, but it can't take place drastically. This is long and continous proces. But gradually educated mass can change their attitude and mindset by cultivating egalitarian ethics. Essance of education is to lay down foundation of humanity in the society. And all ethical, moral and humane values are foundation stone of classless society. Education can provide all people their respective dignitary identity.

Tanveer Ashraf

                           Justice must reach the poor

Justice is “truth in Action” and in Indian context, poors are very far from it. In holistic approach justice includes all, Social, Economical, Civil and Political justice. A country like India which had already suffered a suppression of people’s utterance on British hand. But after independence poor people began to realize that their bad days have gone and now they will get equal share in country’s all resources and they will get justice easily because they are going to be the part of a “democratic nation”. But these dreams of people somewhat remained as dreams because of Indian social structure and the complex and clumsy way to seek justice made them more despair than they were used to be earlier.

People in India still at bay from basic amenities, they have always been the victim of atrocities by affluents, bearing exploitations of capitals class and also higher caste. In Indian context discrimination on the basis of caste , creed, and religion is more critical and pathetic because we are denied our basic rights. Although, Constitution of India provides many remedial actions to exempt the destitutes from atrocities. Preamble of the constitution enshrines all the justices “ social, economic, and political”. But these all rules and rights are operational only for certain sections of society , although constitution makes them mandatory for all and sundry , but poor people barely get benefitted by these democratic ideas. There are many causes for which poors are still far and away from justice is “Lack of information”, Government is endeavoring its best to do just with poors, but in India majority of Indians live in villages where they are isolated from rest of India, they are confined to their own area only. They even don’t know about the flagship schemes run by the government and the laws which are made to safeguard them from discriminations and atrocities. What an irony is this?? , things are being done for poor but they don't know anything about them. Main problem is we have failed to link our rural people , and for this “digital gape” is one of the major cause. With rural perspective, India is semi-globalized country because majority of people are living in the countryside which almost constitutes 70% of India’s population are still not connected with whole India. Rular people are not aware of their entitlements and lack of information is responsible for their unawareness. For instance, People in villages still engaged in manual scavenging, they are reluctantly doing it as well, but they don’t know government has made a bill for them “Manual Scavenging bill 2012”, under which no one can employ any person for manual scavenging , it is prohibited by law. These laws are made to provide justice but they totally failed to deliver justice. Whether such legislations in itself can stop atrocities done on poors?? , whether, merely a law can stop malpractices?? . Lack of information about the schemes and other public funds are exempting poors from their basic entitlements. Enhancing education among the poors and efficient working of government institution on block level can make a difference., and can make their life worth living.

This is a paradox, when india is excelling in the world in terms of economy, and trades , at the same time poors in India, even today is dominated by the higher class and higher caste and bearing atrocities and exploitations on their hand, in every conditions poors are always at the receiving end. To stop atrocities done by the dominated section of society , there is a constitutional institution i.e. courts, set up to redress the grievances but due to high court fee and expensive lawyers along with omnishamble judicial process , poors barely get any justice. Due to destitution poors can’t hire good lawyers and lack of good
lawyers means rare chance of justice, which in pragmatic sense is the real face of judiciary system in India. In some cases even judges are bought by affluents. Rampant corruption in public institutions make poors’ life more destructive. When any law starts to fade its lusture due to obsessive misuse, people at that juncture lose their faith from law. Rampant corruption and infringement of laws have became the reason of poor’s suppressed utterance , actually they are caught in catch-22 situation. Justice in many cases is not being deliver due to the cumbersome and sluggish process of courts, in many cases poors have to strive for 20 or even more years to get justice, although with uncertainity. For poors ‘’Justice delayed is justice denied’’ In India, where 70% population spending their lives on 20 rupees per day, if they don’t have sufficient money to survive , then how can they bear the court fee and lawyers fee to seek justice, that’s why in many cases they even don’t file their cases and continue to bear atrocities. So, The biggest evil for them is their poverty.

Reservation policy by the government has helped a lot to the poors who are from lower strata of society. But since independence , this reservation policy has created a huge gap“Inequality among equals” . If reservation policy has already helped some people and now they are above the average life standard of Indian people, then why they are still getting benefits of this eternal reservation policy?? . Once a person comes out of the vicious cycle of poverty, for them there should not be any reservation. Not perpetuation but eradication of poverty and caste system was the motive of reservation policy. Whenever we talk about the justice for poors. Political leaders always come up with the new reservation policy for different groups, if one favors SC/STs then others demand reservation for muslims. Is reservation Is the right , and only way to give justice to the people ?? In India few communities are in majority besides this all are minorities. Is reservation on the basis of minority group right?? .Is it not the perpetuation of vote bank?? .

Notwithstanding having all flaws and fiasco of government institutions in perspective of justice delivery to the destitutes. Still there is a ray of hope for poors because now the scenario is changing. NGOs and civil society are getting active day by day. Now government is making schemes considering the final outcomes from that particular scheme. “Aanganbaadi” , “Janni suraksha yojna” , “Kaniya vidya dhan” etc. are the schemes which are being implemented in the grassroot level. For social justice and to deliver time bound services to the citizens especially poors , Bihar government has implemented the ‘’Right to Public Service’’ , following the footsteps by seeing the success in bihar, Odisha government has also implemented this right in odisha. The main problem with poors is they are not cognizant of the things for which they are entitled. Now, making them aware , this task is take up by many NGOs . A.P.J. Abdul kalam’s mission to eradicate poverty from the world by global sustainable development system, that is PURA ( providing urban amenities in rural areas). By these type of innovative steps poors must get justice and justice will reach the poors. This will definitely bridge the gap between rural and urban people and will help the rural people to come up and work with solidarity to make India full globalized. Because, if we believe ‘’justice must reach the poors’’ then the permanent solution is to eradicate that poverty and vanish the poors by making them affluents by providing all amenities to them, justice will automatically reach to their doorsteps. It is long process but cent percent possible. To make justice delivery process efficient for poors we must need judicial reforms, reforms in the way of execution of schemes and Probity in government offices. Now a days to exempt poors from cumbersome process of
court and to deliver justice at the drop of a hate , some states have already initiated the process of “Jantaa Darbaar” where poor people’s grievances are being heard and they are also redressed on the spot.
By:- Tanveer Ashraf

Managing work and home :- Is the Indian working woman getting Fair deal ??

Women in India continue to face discrimination and social challenges and often becomes the victims of domestic violence. Somehow the scene has drastically changed in past two decades. Time has gone when women were kept confined to the four walls then women were abandon to participate in holistic mundane life. Women were only consider as suitable for household work. After myriads of agitations by feminists and ‘’Pro-Women Liberty” movements along with adequate state’s participation, women have established not totally but partially affirmed their position in the society. Now, women are empowered in many perspectives. They are doing jobs in various post of the country, but If we say'' Indian women'' then we can't exclude those women who belong to rular background. Although their miserable conditions fail to impact the existing '' Brand India'' but indeed they constitutes the real ''Bharat''. Those women who are working in paddy fields whole day and then accomplish the household chores , these cumbersome work make their life more than hell. Women working in ''tea plantation'' fields even have to carry their child on their back, but to earn their livelihood they are reluctant to do, afterall they are dominated by their male partner. In such cases what should be the obligations of men??. . Is it a fair deal for working women?? ..There is no doubt, women are becoming self reliant and enjoying economic liberty but for this they are doing compromise with ''human liberty''. This time is more devastating for women because outside work and home related chores are making their conditions more pathetic.
Indian society is male dominated society, to break this stereotype women should come forward to claim their entitlement, i.e. ‘’equal rights in public sphere’’ . Most of the elite class women are now self-reliant and self-dependent. Most of them working in prestigious companies and organizations. In some areas they are proving themselves as excel than men. Notwithstanding having all equal abilities in official work, in most cases they are facing prejudice ,they don’t get equal weightage in their work, sometimes they have to work at low wages along with extra burden of household chores. In this perspective Indian women is not getting a fair deal. If both husband and wife are working and they both are enhancing family’s fiscal status, then Is it not the duty of the husband to accomplish half of the household chores???....................
Humans have created the society and society has distributed the work , women for household work, and men for outside work. This distribution of work by society is outdated as women’s work is not restricted to house ,they are also contributing in ‘’outside work’’ , if this change is dynamic ,then why men’s work is restricted to outside only??? …..This is a gender bias. Societal rule has always been the impediment of women’s autonomy, inter-alia physical, mental and social.
Status quo for women in India is solely a case of discrimination. Rural areas are more prone to such prejudice. Orthodox ideology still prevails in the society. Male chauvinists can’t see women of claiming equal rights, they consider such acts as against social norms and consequently women have to face violence. So, in this case only empowering women, and making them economically strong will not affirm
their position in the society until we have any potent instrument to eradicate the stranglehold male domination over the society. To change the status quo we should have to make women empower economically , and most importantly changing of mindset of male in the society will help in getting equal status for women.
As far as human rights and equal distribution of works are concerned, besides managing work and home, women have certain ‘’Natural obligations’’ as well. Status of motherhood, and related complexities are only provided to women by nature. Perhaps this was not considered at the time of work distribution by the society, but in pragmatic, how can we neglect it?? ....Men are exempted from these type of obligations, so to mitigate the workload of women, will it be wrong to entrust men with certain household obligations??...
We are living in a dynamic society, ceaseless effort and pro-women equality thinking can make a great difference. This unfair deal can be converted into a fair deal by certain changes in the society. Male fanatics must change their mindset, equal participation of male member of the family in accomplishing household chores, by valuing women's work in home which are often treated as work with zero value, its time to provide equal dignity to women and finally, Working women can choose their delegates to perform their household chores, by this they can empower those women belonging to lower strata by providing jobs in their homes.
By:- Tanveer Ashraf

                       Globalization Vs Nationalism

Globalization in indian context is not a new phenomenon. India had, for millennia, been engaged with the rest of the world. It has enjoyed a series of visitation and fierce invasions, that’s why even in old inscriptions we find the sanskrit dictum “Vasudhaiva kutumbakam’’*the world is a family+,what we call today is a ‘global village’ but after advent of British [east india company] in india ,for nearly 200 years we became isolated with rest of world. Britishers made trade policy of india for their own benefits .But later half of British rule is more crucial because it was the time when a sense of nationalism began to generate among the indian masses and it was the counter product of hostile British rule in india. Nationalism was at its peak during the second half of the 19th century[1857 revolt] and during first half of the 20th century,when we launched many successful moments agains British rule.
Neverthlesss, after independence, india emphasized to remain as self-reliant country almost for four decades it was because of political omnishamble, social and economic chaos at that time . until 1991, we relied on domestic production or we followed ‘Swadeshi’ but in 1991, when india opened it economy to the world and pronounced the principle of LPG (Liberalization , privatization and globalization ) , among which globalization has played a better role in making india realize its potential in the world stage . India took risk , eventually it proved miracle for indian economy and globalization become a successful model for india .
Today ,. India is fastest growing economy in the world and third largest country in world in terms of PPP (purchasing power parity),according to IMF (International Monetry Fund). The success story in Indian context which has made India a visual place in the world map is due to policy of globalization , besides this there were many factors which are responsible for making it successful , government’s liberal norms with trade , abolition of licence raj , role of corporate sector , and in recent times role of internet can’t be neglected . In this world of internet , country’s boundaries are virtual and fictitious , frontiers can’t stop the different country’s citizen to create a new global village of which, they can be better describe as “NETIZENS” (cyber citizens ) many social media is playing their splendid role in fusion of people’s though , culture and life style.
India has entered in that era where physical border lines in perspective of professionalism ( trade with another nation) has no meaning but in terms of nationalism we have strong and sensitive frontiers lines like LOC (line of control) with Pakistan and macmohan line with China. We have created these lines because we want growth but not at the cost of people’s life which are against the citizens’ interest.
Nationalism is something which bounds us from our motherland and especially with the people who are associated with the motherland. This sense of national integrity can’t be fade with the enhancement of globalized world. Even our leaders who represent India on the world stage take decision by keeping in mind the interest of 120 crores people of India. Globalization has augmented the tranquility and fraternity among the nations but in some points it has also created huge diplomatic complications ,recent ‘’Italian marines case’’ is a trivial example of diplomatic conflict.
There are some problems which are not related to any particular country, they are global problems like carbon emission, climate related complications, environmental degradation, proliferation, energy security etc.., we have to come together to tackle these problems. There are many forces which are making us close through globalization but International terrorism which is the negative facet of globalization is making people more concern of national security and enhance nationalism in them.
Nationalism and globalization are two different terms with contrasting sense. Globalization emphasize on enhancing the relationship with rest of the world, while nationalism emphasize on enhancing the relation the relationship within the country. Nationalism arises out of the sense of being a particular country’s citizen which confined us to the particular country only but in the era of globalization we must set aside ‘’chauvinism’’ or ultranationalism to make the globe as a better place for living. Chauvinism for a country in this globalized world could create war related problem. Nationalism in itself is good for country’s welfare and for the welfare of the nationals. Main challenges for us are to maintain our nationalism along with globalization with motive to increase fraternity with rest of the world, so that we can combat our problems of global order.
There are also some critics of globalization in Indian context that after 1991, ‘’poors are becoming more poorer’’ and affulents are getting staggeringly rich. Globalization is only for Affluents and they are only getting its benefits. Destitutes have suffered from the process of globalization. Somewhat it is true but the main cause of destitution and sufferings of poors in India is not only globalization. The ‘’Vicious Cycle’’ in which they had been caught years ago is still prevail in the lower strata of Indian society, and these are due to the failure of policy implementation and people’s own lack of will to revive themselves.
When we talk about globalization we connect it to the economic terms and trade with other countries. Is it not a narrow definition of Globalization??. Jawahar Lal Nehru had said on the eve of indedencdent india on 15th august 1947 in the historic speech of ‘’tryst with detiny’’ that ‘’ Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world’’ . This sentence alone utters a beautiful combination of both ‘globalization with aspiration of national interest’, but , Whether status quo globalization policy favours all dreams which once Jawahar Lal Nehru talked about??. Along with economic globalization we need to globalize our education system with the contemporary world, we still have old outdated police system, so we need to globalize the internal security system as well. Then we realize the real taste of globalization.
We can connect our nationalism ( Pro-National Interest) to globalized world in numerous forms and in myriad ways to create peace in the world. We should take Jawahar Lal Nehru’s sentence ‘’ Those dreams are for Indian, but they are also for the world’’ in revamped form as ‘’ Those dreams are for world, but they should be also for India’’. Then at that juncture we can eradicate destitution and can make Indian society as world level society and India can emerge as a new global power.

By:- Tanveer Ashraf

Creation of smaller states and the consequent Administrative, Economic and developmental implications.

Creation of smaller States in India is the potential threat to the Integrity and unity of India. Creation of smaller states is not a new phenomenon only in post Independent India but also in pre-independent India we could see some instances of this like partition of Bengal in 1905.But after Indian independence bifurcation of smaller states take place on the linguistic basis, then in recent years the main reason of creation of new states is the underdevelopment of one section of any state inspite of having rich resources, Jharkhand and chhatisgarh are the examples of such creations.
Such creation of smaller states on the basis of language, caste creed, groups, cultural safeguard issue, might prove detrimental for indian union and indian democracy. It will impact on the Indian nationalism because people are more concern with their own local regions, not for whole country. Somewhere they are lacking nationalism,their demand for their own states sometimes seems that they express dissatisfaction with the indian union and want their own country as a separate state.
Virdarbha in Madhya Pradesh ,telangana in Andhra Pradesh, gorkhaland in best bengal ,bodoland in assam , harit Pradesh , purvanchal , bundelkhand in utter Pradesh ,all want their own state . at prima facie , it seems that their motives are benign and their demands are their entitlements , but this is not the real face of existing problems . political parties want to divide the indian union and their motive is “Divide and rule “ . In india even today most of the people in our society are ignorant and very far form the realities , and political parties easily provide them to do whatever they want . people for politicians act as a tinker box where politicians’ small incentive is needed to ablaze their sentiments to fight for their entitlements , and to pressurize the government to make separate state according to vote bank . They provide them to emotive issues of religion , caste or language to consolidate their own vote bank .
It is irony and also unfortunate that when india is getting globalize and disputed countries are extending olive branch with other disputed country , when india is mitigating their regional , economical , political and others barriers with rest of the world , when whole world is in the era of coming together to make unions like G-20 ,G-8 , G7, BRICS, at the same time india within itself is fragmenting in to smaller chunks . while , we do not heed the issues which are really fatal for the citizens like unemployment and livelihood . we face problems in transaction with people belonging to the other group , caste ,and sometimes religion as well , which makes us to keep ourselves at distant with other s and consequently we end up with a new state in indian union .
If we see the second part of this story , that is after creating of smaller states . we find that , the decision of dividing states on the basic of cultural, underdeveloped regions, language and on the basis of demographic lines are not in favor of indian union because since independence , india is facing problems in holding every states with their diverse demands in its union. This will leads to many implications, like political implications , have sever impact on developmental work of both new fragmented and parent state .
Some people support it by saying that administration of small states is easier and state can establish better control over the state than the government in a larger thereby ensuring more development of
the state. But de facto is that , practically it will make administration and policy implementation more clumsy and cumbersome . it is because , if there will be more smaller states in indian union then there will be more number of legislature in these smaller states and in parliament as well there will be plenty of complicated diverse issues which will create political instability and political chaos in the states and eventually through parliament , in the whole country of which bifurcation of Jharkhand with Bihar is live example. Political omnishambles is still a major issue in Jharkhand.
Due to creation of smaller states country ‘s different type of resources will be bound to particular states only . these will not be uniform distribution of resources within the country then there couild be economic implication and economic sluggish as well in the states . Water dispute of cuvery river has not been arise if tamilnadu and Karnataka have been a single state. Water is a natural resourse but partition among states could arise huge problems because one state might use its resousces more efficiently and can slow down the flow of the river by moving dams on it. it creats further implication in terms of central government ‘s interference and suprem court’s work . so, creation of small states will becomes impediment in developmental work of states as werll as country . more states , more number of shares of central fund , distribution of funds in large number but meager in quantity could not fix the problems of underdevelopment and augment misuse of funds

By:- Tanveer Ashraf

The word "Socialist" in the Preamble of our Constitution requires to be defined ......................

The word SOCIALIST in the preamble of our Constitution describes the Indian state where everyone is equal, there is absence of discrimination on the ground of Cast, Creed, Sex, Colour, Religion and Language. As we are living in a democratic country, the taste of DEMOCRACY can’t be realize until we have given some rights. And especially Right to equality provided by our Constitution can’t work until we have uniform distribution of resources and equal access to services, to get social liberty and economic equality .SOCIALIST word itself eradicate ‘’Class System’’ in our society like Capitalist class, Upper Class, Lower class. Socialist State emphasize on formation of welfare state. Hence, our constitution provides SOCIALISTIC pattern of State since its inception but the word ‘’SOCIALIST’ was added only in 42^nd Amendment 1976.

Socialist state is all about  ‘’totalitarian’’ , they do not safeguard the liberty of citizens. But, Democracy is all about Liberty, Equality and real power goes to its people not any authority or state .So, in this case using the word SOCIALIST along with DEMOCRACY , that is ‘’Democratic socialism’’  for India is little bit arbitrary and impropriety. Using both contradictory terms ‘’Democratic Socialist’’ simultaneously sometimes create  misunderstanding.That is why it is very important to define the term socialist clearly. In Indian context, socialist term is more fairly in the sence of ‘’SOCIAL-CONTROL OF ECONOMIC POWER’’.In our preamble SOCIALIST state reflects the idea that the means of production are owned and managed by the state instead of private enterpreneurs (so that capital does not accumulate in one hand)  and nationalization of services for equal social benefits. So, in our preamble SOCIALIST word specify ‘’democratic socialism’’, in which we have liberty along with state ownership. Socialist countries lay emphasis on state control of means of production and distribution  with state’s desired end, whereas democracy along with socialist pattern rely upon mixed economy and the rule of law reach the desired SOCIAL END. …..

By:- Tanveer Ashraf

                             New IAS Mains Pattern 

Qualifying Papers:

Paper‐ A 
(One of the Indian Language to be selected by the candidate from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution). 300 Marks

Paper‐ B
English 300 Marks

Papers to be counted for merit

Paper‐I 
Essay 250 Marks
Paper‐II
General Studies–I 250Marks
(Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography oftheWorld and Society)
Paper‐III
General Studies –II 250 Marks
(Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and Internationalrelations)
Paper‐IV
General Studies –III 250 Marks
(Technology, EconomicDevelopment, Bio‐diversity, Environment, Security andDisaster Management)
Paper‐V
General Studies –IV 250Marks
(Ethics, Integrity andAptitude)
Paper‐VI
Optional Subject – Paper 1 250Marks
Paper‐VII
Optional Subject – Paper 2 250 Marks

Sub Total(Written test) 1750 Marks
Personality Test 275 Marks
Grand Total 2025 Marks

In India Sex Education is seen in more religious and conservative perspective rather than scientific and modern perspective ……..

India is a country of almost every religion in the world. It is a country of spiritual leaders and a country of world’s oldest known civilization. It is a country of veda, Geeta, Quran, and Bible. Religion is good if a person wants to spent a well laid path, but fanatism sometimes take so acute shape that we resist changes and conservative ideology dominates upon us. Excess fanatism of religion and conservative thoughts make Indians ignorance of basic scientific facts, at this juncture we creat a huge gap of ideology between modern and conservative. These conservative thought has had been the cause of many social evils from the time of yore, earlier ‘performance of Sati’ was the product of fanatic ideology. Even today Child marriage is big concern for Indian government, and many social evils are also taking shape in Indian society , ‘’Honor killing’’ in recent times is also the cause of orthodox thinking of Indian people.
Majority of Indian lack modern thinking, due to inadequate awareness and dominance of conservative ideology. Sex education in India is always seen as a subject which is inapt for Indian society but this conclusion drawn by Indians is totally based on religious and conservative perspective. When we see the same subject in perspective of science then it is mandatory to provide Sex education, especially to the juvenils and to children who are going to attained puberty. In India Sex education is considered as taboo, according to religious dogma there is a prescribed age limit and that limit is –marriage, if any one below this know about the sex and sex related complications, before this if anyone is parting their knowledge or anyone is conceiving the same knowledge then they are insurgent of society, trespassing and are responsible for their transgressions. But when we resist the changes which are inevitable , we allow our conservative thoughts to dominate upon us , and at this juncture we begin to access the things only on the basis of religion and social norms and we neglect the scientific aspects of that thing. Sex education scientifically is beneficial for children and juvenils but religious doctrines consider it as socially inapt.
If the child knows everything about sex then it will make the child aware, at least they will be cognizant of the bad consequences of lack of knowledge based on sex. They can adopt healthy life style and can make the society aware of STDs (Sexually transmitted diseases), which are until incurable, in such conditions we left with no option where only authenticated knowledge can save the lives, here sex Education can play a splendid role in making the society free of STDs (Sexually transmitted diseases), in this context only knowledge about sex can help. But it is very unfortunate that we Indians neglect its scientific aspects and connect it with religious and conservative ideology. Sometimes lack of Sex education proves more disasterous for children, religious doctrines and conservative ideology’s restriction provide more incentive and can provoke them to know more about it and for this they can adopt unacceptable means which could lead to the deteriorated health problems of children. Its Human tendency that , more boundation on human provoke them to infringe the norms, it is more pragmatic when rules are against bad things. In this era of technology, especially the revolution of Visual media , mobile phones, computers, laptops and burgeoning use of mobile phones among children is an alarming signal that juvenils and youths can seek inappropriate knowledge about sex which knowledge could prove destructive one, which is very different from the prescribed authenticated knowledge about sex
which is constructive one. The paradox is on the one hand conservative ideology and religious doctrines imposing physical restrictions and boundations on children, at the same time on the other hand technological advancement is making children more liberal by their thinking and making them mentally autonomous, when both the situation clash they give birth to new complications which can devastate the children both by physically and mentally. Now, Constructive education of sex can stop the children from all malpractices and can rescue them from their devastating life. Scientific perspective of providing sex education will eradicate many existing social problems. AIDS is not originated in India but it is spreading in Indian subcontinent rapidly and the recent study reveals that more persons are prone to AIDS due to non-safe Sex rules. The only way to make people aware of the facts and truths is by augmenting Scientific temper in them, for this Indian people must change the status quo mindset. We must be hipster, our thoughts should be dynamic with the changing scenario . We can’t expect better solutions with old and conservative ideas, because we are in 21st century and we have 21st century challenges as well, so, it is mandatory to enforce scientific ideology among the Indian Nationals.
It is the need of the hour to see the problems and search for its solutions on scientific perspective. Sex education, making people cognizant of ‘’what to do and what not to do’’, Diseases which are related to sex, should always be consider on scientific perspective. We are living in the age where we are totally besieged by the science, then how we can expect that dogma, fanatism and conservative thoughts can help us to combat with problems. It is the time to come above all social norms and conservative thoughts which are irrelevant on the scientific basis , because religion is to construct the society and not to destruct the society. Only through this we can establish a healthy and aware society.
By:- Tanveer Ashraf