Wings of imagination

"I will quit smoking whenever i want to", a statement most of us might have heard from our friends who are regular n chain smokers. No matter how much smoking may harm them , whenever asked to quit they will zip your lips with this statement. But the question is. Will they actually be able to quit when they want to? Will the nicotine accumulated inside their bodies permit them to quit smoking? How many stories have we heard of people who have quit smoking and most of them even after succesfull completion of an entire year without smoking, reverted back to their old habit. Smoking is the most common method of consuming tobaccos and tobacco is the most common substance smoked ,be it in the form of cigarettes , cigars or the Indian ' beedis' and the latest 'in thing' these days is 'The Hookah' .Tobacco smoke contains nicotine that is so addicitive that the body starts craving for it to remain normal .This is 'the pleasure providing devil' that ...

There has been a continuing discussion about the impact of economic, and especially financial, aid on the development of underdeveloped countries. (I do not have in mind humanitarian help in catastrophic situations but aid as an economic phenomenon). India being a developing country is a perfect example of a nation that needs trade and not financial aid for it's development. There is usually a huge gap between the foreign aid rhetoric and foreign aid reality. It is in the interest of the foreign aid community (which is a specific rent-seeking group) to make the gap as wide as possible. Its form and structure is not very good either, because it is based on the interests of the donors, not on the needs of those who are supposed to receive and use it. The interests of the donors, concealed in their missionary moral progressivist rhetoric, are very “earthly”. As a result, much of foreign aid is wasted. And, finally, we should know that the aid is never free. It is, in many cases, very ...

Privatization of public sector implies buying of the government owned units by private companies for increasing profits. In simpler terms it means 'disinvestment'. It normally occurs when the government is unable to make profit out of a particular unit under it's control, or the unit is incurring heavy losses or if it is unable to provide the bare minimum services to the people. All this causes the government to sell the unit to a private firm as it is unable to handle the unit efficiently and is incurring heavy losses. The question then arises 'Is privatization actually beneficial in long terms?' 'Should there be a limit to disinvestment?' To find the answers to our above queries let us develop a further insight in the issue. The best example we have of privatization today is the Telecom sector. Gone are the days when we had just the BSNL or the MTNL landlines phones at our homes. Today we get to choose from a variety of telecom players be it AIRTEL,RELIAN...