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The Muddy Water

"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding" - Albert Einstein.   Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were travelling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there. The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and, right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink! So he came back and told Buddha, The water in there is very muddy. I don't think it is fit to drink. After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he fo...

THE WORLD NEEDS GANDHI'S IDEAS MORE THAN EVER TODAY

Born of a Leader : "It was Cold freezing June and a young man well suited with wheat fair complex was travelling with a first class ticket to  Pretoria. During those days Apartheid rule was prevalent in the country. On an complaint from his co-passenger he was thrown out of the train at St. Petersburg station by Rail Authorities for not shifting to lower class compartment. It was that movement he realized the struggle of people with more melanin pigment and the scar of Racial Discrimination. Left out in cold he was startled to move an inch on the station to reach out his suitcase which was thrown down in front of him. This incident provoked him to introspect himself and thus was born a Great Leader 'Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi' who became an inspiration for coming leaders like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King and became the Father of the Nation called 'India'."          Today the world is facing many challenges than the past...

UN REFORMS: LONG OVERDUE

Today's Changing global scenario with rising unilateralism, chaos in the middle east countries, threats of Nuclear proliferation and trade wars has time again raised the question about the role of International Organisation in the Globe. ' Charles Darwin ' in his book " Origin of Species " has said that "It is not the strongest that survives nor the most intelligent one but the one which is adaptable to change". This statement of Charles Darwin is well applicable to International Organisation and United Nation is no exception to it. In this Context we will start with a brief history of United Nation and its role in Global Dynamics. Following it the adaptations which are required for the Institution to survive and the reason for its reforms. Then analyse the reasons for its long overdue in reforms. TIME TRAVELLING TO 1945 : As the Chaos of World War II ended a novel organisation called "United Nation" took birth from the ashes ...