1336 Words Essay on India's Poor Performance in Sports

Events
India is a nation of about 108 crore people but it has not shown any remarkable performance in the Olympic games. Not even a single gold medal has been won in any discipline except in shooting in Bejing Olympics and the game of hockey years ago, and in that game too we have fallen below the top five teams in the world. A huge contingent goes to compete in the Olympics with great expectations but the whole nation is disappointed when most of the athletes fail even to qualify for the finals. An odd silver medal or a bronze is all we get in the mega sports event.In the Commonwealth Games, our performance has been slightly better than in the Olympics, but it is still far from satisfactory. Countries like…
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1298 Words Essay on the Second Green Revolution

Industry
Despite the burgeoning development of industry and services in India, agriculture remains the mainstay of our economy. It contributes about 20 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides employment to 65-70 per cent of the country’s total population. It also accounts for about 14 per cent of India’s total export earnings, besides providing raw material to a large number of industries. It is a major source of domestic saving and, by and large, the only means of food security for the nation.The performance of Agriculture Sector has not been up to the mark in the recent years. As against the target of annual growth of 4 per cent during the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2002- 07), the growth of agriculture was -6.9 per cent in 2002-03 because of…
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1354 Words Essay on Rainwater Harvesting in India

Construction
Nature has endowed India with huge water resources. We have perennial rivers like Ganga, Brahmaputra, Yamuna, Beas and others along with their tributaries and distributaries besides in North and Eastern India, we have spring fed and rain fed rivers in central and peninsular India-the major among these being- Godavari, Krishna, Narmada, Tapti and Kaveri.These huge potential water resources notwithstanding, we are facing a water crisis across the country. Over the years, rising population, growing industrialisation and expanding agriculture have pushed up the demand for water. Monsoon is still the main hope of our agriculture.Water conservation has become the need of the day. Rainwater harvesting is a way to capture the rainwater at the time of downpour, store that water above the ground or charge the underground water and use it…
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1440 Words Essay on the benefits of Positive Thinking

Plays
Positive thinking is the belief that good things will happen and that one’s efforts will be crowned with success. It is something diametrically opposed to negative thinking which is being fearful, apprehensive and unsure of success in efforts. Positive thinking is based on optimism, hope and belief that hard work is never wasted. The effects of positive thinking are magical. Psychologists believe that nothing gears up people to make whole-hearted efforts to perform some task as positive thinking.The feeling tones up every muscle of the body and activates every nerve of the mind for a perfect coordination between the body and the mind to do the job when hope enlivens a human being; his/ her efforts become focused and earnest. The vision of achievement and the glory or appreciation associated…
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Travel Motivations can fit well into Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Model

Marketing
A review of the travel literature reveals that travel motivations can fit well into Maslow’s hierarchy of needs model (1943). The model suggests that lower needs in the order of hierarchy warrant priority attention and satisfaction – Maslow’s idea of prepotency. The hierarchy of needs proposed by Maslow can be represented as under:1. Physiological – hunger, thirst, rest, activity2. Safety – security, release from fear and anxiety ADVERTISEMENTS: 3. Belonging and love – affection, giving and receiving love4. Esteem – self-esteem (the need to exhibit strength, achievement, mastery, competence, and independence) and esteem from others (described by notions such as reputation, prestige, status, and recognition) Image Source: heartofavagabond.com5. Self-actualization – personal self- realization ADVERTISEMENTS: From the above list it is clear that the needs are mainly psychological in nature except…
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1246 Words Essay on Youth and Politics in India

Career
People between the age of 15 and 35 constitute youth. Those in their teens among the youth are said to be of tender age. They are not considered experienced and knowledgeable enough to understand the complex world of politics. That is why some people believe that the youth should not take part in politics. But when the government reduced the age of eligibility for casting vote from 21 to 18, the message was quite clear: that the youth should actively take part in the process of elections whereby the candidates are elected to form governments at the state as well as centre.India is the biggest democracy in the world. The real power lies in the hands of the people who elect the people who rule the country. The basic principle…
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7 Reasons that Motivates People to Travel around the World

Dance
Taking over the thread from McIntosh, Robinson (1970) worked out the above said four categories of travel motivations and further classified them into seven groups. According to Robinson, the main purposes of people undertaking travel or tourism are as follows: Reasons: 1. Relaxation and Refreshment of Body and Mind: This category of tourism motivations is the aftermath of increasing industrialization, growing urbanization, pressures, pushes and pulls of modern life. To overcome these, one necessitates rest and relaxation, undergoing enlivenment of mind and body every so often.The nature and the design in which relaxation, recreation or pleasure is sought vary with the individual. Relaxation and refreshment to some degree, whatever the form of holiday, are the predominant motivations of the holiday maker looking for escape from the pressures of everyday life.…
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1518 Words Essay on Migration of Population to Urban Areas in India

Industry
When India achieved independence in 1947, about 80 per cent of its population lived in rural areas. Today, over 60 years afterwards, this percentage has fallen by around 15 per cent, and now, about 65 per cent of the country’s population lives in villages. Evidently, there has been a migration of people from rural areas to urban and semi-urban areas. In terms of the number of people such migration has been of a very high magnitude. In 1947, India’s population was about 33 crore, of which about 8 crore occupied the cities. Today, the country’s population is nearly 107 crore, and those living in cities number about 30 crore-nearly the entire number of people at the time of independence.Such a heavy migration has impacted India’s socio-economic structure in various ways.…
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1328 Words Essay on Women's Empowerment in India

Family Members
Since the older times, women have been treated as second rate citizens of all across the globe. The situation is almost the same everywhere-irrespective of the developed country or the developing country-caste, community, colour or creed a position which is comparable in many ways, with that of racial minorities. Women have been relegated to secondary position despite the fact that they numerically constitute about half the world population today.This situation has caused immense loss to their self-dignity as human beings and also their independent entities, associated with men, apart from other matter, in context with intellectual and professional capability.In the very beginning of civilization, women enjoyed a respectable position in society-at par with men. They actively participated in social, religious affairs as well as in warfare. The social, religious ceremonies…
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1270 Words Essay on India's Intelligence and Internal Security

Strategy
Geographically, India is placed in between hostile Pakistan to its West and not too friendly Bangladesh, Myanmar and China to its East. Regular terrorist activities targetted by Pakistan against India have made it necessary for India to be always on guard and develop fool-proof intelligence and internal security system. India’s new government has prioritized intelligence in its agenda and conceptualised policy formation and implementation diversities for the country’s safety and security.The ever-increasing security concerns and the greater reliance on intelligence are the offshoots of a host of causative factors. New and complex manifestations in the nature of security threats, states resorting to low-cost option of covert actions to achieve their objectives, abundance and accessibility of lethal weapons, availability and accessibility of lethal technology, quick and easy trans-national mobility, low efficacy…
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