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Lack of concern about disasters and its proper management lies in the fact that even Ministers' and Secretaries' of various departments are found recently to be ignorant of many facts.

Nomadic people are landless, homeless and generally underfed with a negligible literacy rate. They are deprived of voting rights, caste certificates, ration cards and below poverty line certificates. They do not have access to land and potable water, education, and health facilities. Most of them are not even classified in Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes or Socially and educationally backward classes, resulting in almost no reservation in jobs, educational institutions or in politics of this country.

Nobody questions favours to the employers in a criminal matter that falls under section 405 of the Indian Penal Code having a provision for punishment of imprisonment up to three years, or with fine , or with both under section 406 of the Code. Such a favour is not generally shown towards the employees committing any criminal breach of trust. Its clearly a partisan approach of the Minister in this particular matter. What can one hope from this present system including the provisions of law when for the same offence an employee is liable to be punished with imprisonment of up to seven years and shall be also liable to fine under section 408 of the Code.

The status of legislators in India has been changing since our independence. Earlier, they were “representatives of the people” both in words and its spirit, but now they have reduced to merely the “delegates of their parties.”

Deriving happiness from ahimsa and slaughter is perhaps as old a practice as evolution of humankind itself. It continues despite the fact that the human civilisation considers it since at least 2500 years ago that we do not have any equitable or moral right to practice ahimsa and killings.

After a long battle the NABARD (Amendment) Bill got clearance from the Cabinet paving the way for disbursing loans to farmers at the interest rates of below nine per cent. It a great relief for farmers, for the banks as well as private money lenders of our country has been exploiting them for years by giving them loans at a much higher rate of interests than many other sectors including industries.

From the title above one may perceive that this writing is to play a lexical game upon a big number of quit smoking methods available at the market for the people in need. To support this sweet sense of humor, I would say, 'Yes, it is!'; nevertheless, it will be such an unfair underestimation if I fail to confess that, basically, it is not only supposed to be a particular, strange method of quit itself, but also a realistic view over the major reason why the present narcotic overuse has come about.

There are endless ways of telling one's story. For this reason poets and writers like Roger White and Bernard Shaw may be wrong to think that the passive nature of their lives disqualifies them from even attempting to write their autobiography. Roger used to say that he did not think it was possible for a biographer to make anything at all interesting out of his life. I think time will prove him wrong. He, like Shaw, thought his life was in his writing, or as he once put it, quoting Rabindranath Tagore: 'the poem not the poet.'

Is the physical world really destructible ? The question is important because we witness destruction everywhere. Then what the philosophers wants to say by indestructible?

The limitation of the physical world and the life itself has created doubts among many about achievability of Moksh in this life. However, some give logic that we can. What is it then ?