By Prabhakar T. Overland
A certain socioeconomic issue seems to be staring the world’s legislators and policymakers in their face: How can a minimum of wealth be distributed to allow people to stay calm so that the economy remains intact? A bit like the Corona virus conundrum then: How many vaccinated people does it take for the pressure on hospitals …
By Taraka
Since the dawn of society people have longed for a real community where they would live with love and peace and where all the talents and dreams of every person would blossom. Taking advantage of this longing in the human heart various exploiters have used ideologies to fool people into keeping them in control …
The article, written by a staff member of PROUT Delhi, pertains to India and its political scene. The English title is: Minister, Prime Minister, Governor and President.
Currently, we are seeing the sordid scandal of ministers jumping in an out of parties due to suspected bribing by the corporate cash of the Centre. The main goal is to be …
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar
(14 September 1959, Motihari, Bihar)
Normally between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four human beings have abundant vital energy (práńa shakti). This is the period of their student life. Though there is plenty of vital energy during this period, due to intellectual underdevelopment the physical and intellectual waves are unable to adjust together …
By Ida V. Överland
Pol. Sci. Cand., University of Stockholm, Sweden
Democracy today is by and large identified with the representative party system. People have been given the right to vote for candidates selected by various political parties. The question is whether this is an optimal form of democracy – and do we have indications that it is about to …
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar
The younger generation usually has greater knowledge than the older generation of how circumstances will change in the future, because it is their nature to look ahead, and consequently they focus more attention on the future than their elders. I am not referring here to adolescent sentimentality, but to how far an understanding of the …
By Dada Vedaprajinananda
(March 2012) – President Obama’s healthcare law has sparked a lot of debate in the U.S., and predictably his critics on the right have used it to weigh in against the dangers of “Big Government.”
For many of Obama’s opponents, the possibility that the government might help people to get affordable medical care is a catastrophe signaling …
By Prof. Dhanjoo N. Ghista
Originally published in Gurukula Network, Issue No 30, May 2011
1. Wave of Social Unrest due to Governmental authoritarianism, massive corruption, economic woes and gross disparities between rich and poor
Friday February 11 was a historic day in Cairo, when Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed over governance control to the military, …
Susmit Kumar, PhD
Although individual corruption is low in the US, as persons who commit illegal acts may very well be caught, a corrupt political-business nexus does exist. This corruption is different from the one we typically find in everyday life in India and other Third World countries. As politicians in the US need a lot of money to run …
Ac. Krtashivananda Avt.
Two kinds of democratic states can be recognized in the Islamic countries. The basis of this distinction has to do with how comprehensively Islam is incorporated into the affairs of the state:
